What do you guys think the best movie with a rapper is?

1. Belly
2. Get Rich or Die Trying
3. 8 mile

some ideas......

Boogie Nights, starring the great "Marky Mark" Wahlberg.

how prominently does the rapper have to be featured?

My nomination:
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

The RZA is in it, only a very small part, but hey, he's in it. As is his music throughout.

He has to be one of the main characters.

I really liked Gridlock'd with Tupac and Tim Roth playing guys trying to kick heroin and encountering various roadblocks within government bureaucracy. It's pretty solid.

I also liked Something the Lord Made with Mos Def and Alan Rickman. It was an HBO movie about the the invention of bypass surgery. Def plays a lab technician who isn't really even welcome in the building because of his race and the era, but who ends up contributing greatly to the research breakthroughs. He's really good in it.

Speaking of Mos Def, I quite enjoyed Be Kind Rewind from last year.

Clearly it's Walk the Line, now that Joaquin Phoenix is a rapper:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F_Ikksg40U

Training Day (Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg) was a pretty good movie, it even won Denzel an oscar.
The Spike Lee joint Bamboozled with Mos Def.

Don't think all of you will agree on me on this one:
Revolver with André 3000 of Outkast.

I'm one of the few people that actually think this movie wasn't that bad, even though in some scenes Ritchie wanted to pull of a Tarantino a bit too obvious.

If you havent seen it: see the original UK Version. Stay away from the toned down and simplified US version.

ummmmmmm.. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2, which had VANILLA FUCKING ICE ! T-U-R-T-L-E POWER !

BoyZ in the Hood - With Ice Cube

Crash- Ludacris

New Jack City- Ice T

quote:

Originally posted by deazy86:
He has to be one of the main characters.

I agree with you!!

Not much of a rapper movie but Something the Lord Made was a very good movie starring Mos Def. Rappers have been turning up their acting game recently. I read Common is more into acting now then music, which is clear from his last album.

Xhibit makes it all the way to the end in the new X-Files movie.

Man, that damn film just might do to the television series what "Get on Your Boots" almost did to the new U2 album.

Romeo Must Die - DMX