Or better put, when you hear Pryor talking about shooting his wife’s tires out in Live on the Sunset Strip, it sounds exactly like a track on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. It’s important to note that not only did Pryor and Kanye deliver every time their number was called, but they also live(d) an extremely controversial life off-stage that fuel(ed) their work. Dave Chappelle = NasĬhappelle and Nas have both created a piece of art ( Chappelle’s Show and Illmatic, respectively) that’s so timeless that we give them a lifetime pass, even if the rest of their work is alright at best. Now everything they drop sells out, which is exactly what they’re considered these days - sellouts. Still, they both used underground bootlegs and mixtapes to make it to the mainstream. Hart and Drake had been around for years, getting overlooked and releasing flops (in Hart’s case, Soul Plane in Drake’s case, Room for Improvement, which was called “corny”). Neither, however, has really reached such heights again.
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They also both blew up almost immediately once their names’ became recognizable - Carrey starring in a trio of giant box-office hits in 1994 ( Ace Ventura, The Mask and Dumb and Dumber), and Eminem having a number one album (the 8 Mile soundtrack) and movie ( 8 Mile) in the same year (2002) he won an Oscar and Grammy. Jim Carrey = Eminemīoth Carrey and Eminem come from trailer-park roots and broke through urban markets as black people loved these white boys as though they’d played bass for James Brown. Similarly, they’ve both still been consistently good as they’ve gotten older. Take your drug money and buy the neighborhood I told him, ‘Please don’t die over the neighborhood Most of Rock’s comedy specials have been transcendent with multiple quotables that still hold up today (one of my all-time favorites: “I think all bullets should cost $5,000, cause if a bullet cost $5,000, there’d be no more innocent bystanders”). Not only did these guys grow up blocks away from each other in Bed Stuy, but they’re both arguably the best ever at what they do. So while Rock is right about comparing himself to a hip-hop legend, he’s wrong about which one. I, however, like Rock, wanted to get a little more specific about it, because when I started to think about it, every comedian has a rapper who’s career perfectly matches theirs (and vice versa). The Notorious B.I.G.I’m paraphrasing here, but the great American philosopher Chris Rock once said something along the lines of, “Seinfeld was like Bruce Springsteen on stage I was like Run DMC - wearing leather, cursing, being raw.”Īgain, while that’s not an exact quote, comedians (especially black comedians) have always compared themselves to rappers.– Ready to Die (1994), associate producer The controversy persisted until he acknowledged that while not seeking sex with transwomen, he has sought such oral sex. Challenged by his radio cohost Ebro Darden, he was partly secretive, but denied being gay. In real life, his sexuality entered public debate after his repeated arrests for soliciting prostitution from transwomen. And in 2008, the video game Grand Theft Auto IV featured a realistic Mister Cee character on a rap radio station, "102.7, the Beat". Also, Mister Cee helped develop for Tropical Fantasy soda a new flavor, "Island Punch Finisher". In the early 1990s, Mister Cee discovered rapper the Notorious B.I.G., otherwise known as Biggie Smalls. After graduation, he worked for several messenger companies, including Airborne Express, until he and Big Daddy Kane released Kane's 1988 debut album, Long Live the Kane. In his high school, he met rapper Big Daddy Kane. LeBrun was born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City.