If you had to award the Best Rapper Turned Actor Performance.... who wins?

[Ahmen]

What, no love for Common?
Mos Def carried that film w/ Bruce Willis.
But Will as Ali is best.

 

[FeverPitch2]

Best rapper turned actors:
1. Mos Def
2. Will Smith
3. Queen Latifah
4. DMX
5. Big Boi, He played the shyt out of his role in ATL. Dre wanted to bush the group to be an actor but Big was a far better actor. I know he was salty.
6. LL Cool J
7. Method Man (not enough range).

 

[FeverPitch2]

What, no love for Common?
Mos Def carried that film w/ Bruce Willis.
But Will as Ali is best.

Common cant act his way out of a traffic ticket.

 

[Creepn]

Nobody liked The Game in Waist Deep? I thought he killed that role as a menacing gang leader.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Will is good in comedic roles or action roles. He’s trash in drama films.

You're going wild contrarian to call his performances in The Pursuit of Happiness, Six Degrees of Separation, Focus, and Ali to be "trash".

 

[TonySavage]

Three pages and no mention of Sergeant Fin?

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Tupac in gridlockd

 

[JLova]

Dr. Dre in training day deserved an award.

 

[Johnny Kilroy]

Mos def was cool imo. Did a couple of movies. Voiced gangstalicious on boondocks, did some sketches with chappelle

Before he was Mos Def I knew him as the guy from the Visa commercial

 

[blockburna420]

Dmx - Belly / Never die alone

 

[MischievousMonkey]

Dave in Top Boy

 

[EBK String]

How has only one person mentioned Pac? He is by far the best rapper/actor, nikka was a classically trained method actor.

 

[cap10slapahoe]

dru down brah

 

[Makavalli]

Pac in juice

 

[QuintessentialMan]

Coolio in the Daredevil uncut version, Ice Cube in Friday and XXX 2 then Eminem in 8 Mile.

No seriously, if we're calling Will Smith a rapper turned actor then take your pick from any of his top tier movies.

BigBoi killed THIS role but do you think he has any range?