Tag: Idris Elba
Stringer Bell Has a Rap Persona, King Driis
by gally on May.19, 2010, under New Music
That’s the face of the one and only Stringer Bell from the seminal TV series The Wire. If you haven’t seen the Wire yet, stop what you’re doing and rent it, buy it, borrow it from a friend or do whatever is necessary to see it. Hell, it’s only $130.99 on Amazon right now for the complete series. Anyways, the Idris Elba played character was a key figure in the first few seasons of the series. He played the streetwise as well as business savvy administrator of the Barksdale organization. He was a bad ass mother, with hints of old school gangster in him.
Idris has a secondary career in hip hop that until now nobody seemed to have known about. He’s not been so underground though. In 2007 he co-produced and performed on the intro to Jay-Z’s 2007 album American Gangster. He DJ’d the NBA all star party in Vegas and the BET series, Rising Icons. At the end of last year he released and EP called King of Kings. Below is the video for the song Hold On from that album. (continue reading…)
