First Movies Of Famous Rappers

Nicki Minaj

First Movie: Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)

Before making her physical debut with 2014’s The Other Woman, The Barbz’ voice helped make Blue Sky Studios nearly a billion dollars in theaters.

Drake

First Movie: Charlie Bartlett (2008)

After his Degrassi days, Drizzy helped his fund his “comeback season” with a handful of small films including this one.

Ice Cube

First Movie: Boyz n the Hood (1991)

When your first flick is a classic such as thing, your career can go one of two ways. Thankfully Ice Cube is one of the best rappers to ever do it.

Chris Brown

First Movie: Stomp the Yard (2007)

Breezy nestled into Hollywood the best way possible; in a small, musical-oriented feature film.

Kid Cudi

First Movie: Maniac (2011)

Before Entourage had him huffing and puffing, the kid from Cleveland linked up with Shia Labeouf in his first passion project.

Common

First Movie: Smokin’ Aces (2007)

Common played a hit-man with a heart in this terrible pic about a zillionaire magician but his filmography has beefed up considerably since then.

Dr. Dre

First Movie: Set it Off (1996)

The Good Doctor’s color commentary in the female bank heist flick is arguably the brightest spot in the movie. Alas, like his albums, he doesn’t like to do too many movies.

Machine Gun Kelly

First Movie: Beyond the Lights (2014)

Amber Rose’s boyfriend just cut his teeth into the other side of show business but like we told you, he killed it.

Wiz Khalifa

First Movie: Gangs of Roses 2: Next Generation (2012)

Young Khalifa saddled up with his then-wifey for this inadvertent comedy just because he was hanging out on the set.

Kanye West

First Movie: Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

Yeezy has expressed interest to be more active in Hollywood and yeah…he has some work to do.

Method Man

First Movie: Cop Land (1997)

The Wu legend started out with a gritty role in the forgotten Sylvester Stallone movie but he’s still pimping Tinseltown to this day.

Ludacris

First Movie: The Wash (2001)

A typical small role in a wannabe Friday film is how Luda got in the game. But his next role in 2 Fast 2 Furious secured his kid’s kid’s future.

Tupac Shakur

First Movie: Nothing but Trouble (1991)

While Juice was his first role in traditional role, he appeared alongside Digital Underground in a movie that was so bad, it was good.

Fredo Starr

First Movie: Strapped (1993)

The Onyx member has made a living portraying an angry Black man (probably because he is one) and this HBO movie earned him instant acclaim.

LL Cool J

First Movie: Wildcats (1986)

Not only did Uncle L make his feature film debut but the ill duo of Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson did too.

T.I.

First Movie: ATL (2006)

Did Tip subliminally play himself in this Hip-Hop classic? Why, yes. Was he a natural on-screen? Hell yeah.

Bow Wow

First Movie: Carmen: A Hip Hopera (2001)

Shad Moss was hanging around Beyoncé before Jay Z when they both starred in this rap twist on the legendary opera.

Snoop Dogg

First Movie: Half Baked (1998)

Tha Doggfather made his first movie appearance playing a weed parasite in the hood, because of course.

Nelly

First Movie: Snipes (2001)

Nelly broke into acting starring opposite a relatively unknown Zoe Saldana but opted to keep killing the Billboard Charts for a few more years instead of going all in.

Will Smith

First Movie: Where the Day Takes You (1992)

It’s a common misconception that the Fresh Prince’s first film role was Six Degrees of Separation (the one where he played the gay guy) but it was actually when he portrayed the slum lord Manny.

Vanilla Ice

First Movie: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1992)

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