Is Joaquin Phoenix's Rap Career For Real?

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From The Daily Beast

"A new trailer that hit the Internet last week proves it: The well-respected actor who grew a beard, took up hip-hop, and mumbled through a Letterman appearance was pulling one over on the public.

Joaquin Phoenix has always been a stellar actor. But the nature of his talent has never been more apparent than during the last two years when, beginning with his legendary interview with David Letterman, the clean-shaven two-time Oscar nominee committed himself wholly to making every public appearance a painstaking portrait of an emotional breakdown. Give Phoenix credit: Journalists everywhere (myself included) actually pondered whether his shaggy beard, and his preposterous foray into hip-hop, was something more than a practical joke.

Now comes the trailer for his forthcoming documentary, I'm Still Here: The Lost Year of Joaquin, which hit the Internet last week. It's the best evidence yet that the actor—with the help of his brother-in-law Casey Affleck—was pulling a full-on Andy Kaufman on the American public. In the trailer, we see Phoenix playing a reluctant celebrity—despondent in the back of a limo, alone under the spotlight in a vacant theater, bare-chested in profile, all while some craggy-voiced mystic intones enigmatic metaphors about success. "Life's a journey that goes round and round," the mystic says, "and the end is closest to the beginning.""


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[Coppertunes]

"A white actor at that - we're just keeping it real." !!!

Would you say "A black actor at that - we're just keeping it real." if Will Smith was playin some Beethoven on the piano ???????

Bellend.

[tahitiancookie]

the presenter of this show is such an ass.

[MrJazzHOP]

Hey, it's a hoax - a good one, granted...but a hoax nonetheless. This is a great finger-up mockumentary to the whole Hollywood ethos of greed and needless hedonism. They would have giggled and choked with laughter at all of this; it's exactly what they were trying to achieve. If he's really "rapping", he's an asinine loser; if it's a cutting, icisive hoax, it's fake..."not buying it" mentality! They have just owned everybody who has had a debate about this film!

[NightManiacsInc]

@Coppertunes

stop being so hypersensitive, there's alot of black actors that have rapped, like 'will smill', its more common amongst black actors because its more common for rappers to be black, thats just facts, so if a white actor wanted to do rap, that would just be really uncommon, & thats all cenk is saying, which is why he thinks Joaquin Phoenix is faking this, which he was right about

[swenkelly]

totally inept and bad music

[MAKER6450]

@OrielFilms either way it was fukn stupid....hes a idiot for doing it.

[OrielFilms]

@MAKER6450 Did you not know that none of it was real? It was ALL fake, the whole leaving to be a rapper was set up. If you didnt get that then he did a damn good job at acting in the movie

[MAKER6450]

@OrielFilms i just watched his film "i'am still here" and i thought it was pathetic.

i felt so awkward watching him rap ect ect.

he was in a coke haze.

you dont just become a rapper over night....its something you grow into and you learn things on the way.

[OrielFilms]

just watched the movie, was pretty cool seeing Cenk in it :)