10 Wild Celebrity Pranks

This is one of the many reasons why we love Erykah Badu. The songstress pulled off one of the greatest celebrity pranks in a while by masquerading as a musical panhandler in Times Square.

Just to show how cold the Big Apple is, Badu only took home $3.60. But that doesn’t stop her joint prank with Okayplayer.com from ranking among the 10 wildest celebrity pranks. Here are the rest.

Drake knows what you’re saying about him on the Internet. Hilarity ensued when he donned some glasses and a horrible wig/beard combo on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to ask Hollywood bystanders what they thought of his music.

Talk about being the butt of a joke. Eminem and Sasha Baron Cohen collaborated on a 2009 prank that put Cohen’s Borat character’s cheeks right in Eminem’s face at the MTV Movie Awards.

Jimmy Kimmel has the magic touch. At the height of twerking’s cultural appropriation, he enlisted stuntwoman Caitlin Heller to pretend to catch fire while popping her cakes against a wall.

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Perhaps Drake’s ability to pull off a good prank comes from falling victim to one. Ashton Kutcher had Drizzy believing he would meet the president on a 2012 episode of Punk’d.

Some pranks don’t go over so well. When one of Game’s boys decided to tweet the phone number of a Los Angeles County Sheriff, nobody was laughing.

Shyne’s comeback conference call was going pretty smoothly until a rowdy caller started peppering Po with questions. It turns out 50 Cent managed to hop on the call and wild out Mel Gibson style.

The gags extend from one legend to another, as LL Cool J was on the receiving end of an Eminem prank call during an appearance on Shade 45 show. Em played to role of Jason from Miami.

Some Twitter love between Drake and Nicki Minaj even had their respective press reps scared to confirm or deny when the pair of Young Money artists joked about getting married in 2010.

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How successful was the MTV show Punk’d? Think back to the episode when Justin Timberlake thought he was audited, and the visibly distraught singer/actor had to sit down and call his mother.

Catfishing should probably be illegal. Lesibian, North Carolina rapper Dee Pimpin’ was fully committed to her role as Bow Wow and was fully down to put the lambskin on an unsuspecting victim from MTV’s series Catfish.