The Wire has come up in many a rap song since it hit the small screen in 2002, but it looks the stars of the show were dropping beats too.
In a new interview with Details magazine, Idris Elba - who played Russell 'Stringer' Bell in the gritty HBO series - says that he and a few castmates would get together to lay down some rap tracks.
'Me and Wood Harris, who played Avon, and Hassan Johnson, who played Wee Bey, we'd book out a studio and make records of us rapping,' the British actor explained.
As well as enjoying an expansive movie career which has seen him nominated for Golden Globes as Nelson Mandela and for his TV work in Luther, Idris is also a DJ who will play in Ibiza this summer.
But since his role as the late president of South Africa, Elba admits he's found it hard to find parts as artistically challenging.
Read the full interview in the new issue of Detail magazine HERE.
i want to do this man.
ReplyDelete