Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock & Leonardo DiCaprio to join Q-Tip on Beats1 Radio this Friday

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this and i didnt know dicaprio was down with hip hop?
Yo he loves Hip Hop. He's like one of us.

Leonardo DiCaprio loves rap - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

The American actor, 38, has spoken about his interest in pop culture while promoting The Great Gatsby, for which rap legend Jay-Z produced the score.Leonardo has always been a fan of urban music and revealed his favourite artists.

"Kendrick Lamar is great, 2 Chainz is great too - don't forget 2 Chainz," he told MTV News. "By the way, he's my age - I'm very proud of a guy emerging in the hip-hop world at my age."

And Leonardo doesn't just love rap music. The actor admits his musical preferences are particularly eclectic.

"I've been a huge fan of hip-hop for a long, long time," he said. "That and jazz music, the music of the '40s, and Stevie Wonder."

In The Great Gatsby, Leonardo reunites with director Baz Luhrmann, who is no stranger to genre-hopping, having made Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge! Leonardo observes that his recent film Django Unchained also dips into hip-hop. Comprised of a variety of musical genres, the soundtrack features a track by American rap star Rick Ross.

"The last two films that I've done have been period pieces infused with hip-hop," Leonardo said. "So it's really cool that these directors take that chance , and I think it really connects with audiences today."

Leonardo says this music "sort of seamlessly meshes" into both of his latest films. He thinks this kind of genre mixing only works to enhance the movies.

"You don't feel like you're watching something from a different era," he said. "You're connecting with these people and this time period in a much more subversive way."

The Great Gatsby hits cinemas from May 10.

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Leo's favorite rapper is Nas and he convinced Scorsese to put Nas's Thief's Theme in The Daparted.



I think he got him on that Blood Diamond Score as well:



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Leo's favorite rapper is Nas and he convinced Scorsese to put Nas's Thief's Theme in The Daparted.

:salute: he's also producing the tribe called quest tv show. He just went up several notches in my book with that Nas news though, didn't know that was his man. Side note though, Tip's show is very very very dope. He does a nice mix of rap and soul and rock and anything else that's clearly influenced him or influenced hip hop
 

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If you live in NYC you must have heard of the weekly hiphop party called the Freedom party, Q-tip djs that party sometime and Leo is always there , not to mention 1oak for the hiphop there.
 

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:salute: he's also producing the tribe called quest tv show. He just went up several notches in my book with that Nas news though, didn't know that was his man. Side note though, Tip's show is very very very dope. He does a nice mix of rap and soul and rock and anything else that's clearly influenced him or influenced hip hop
Leo stans the gawd. He knows who the goat is...
 
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