233159

Entertainment  

Jonah Hill as a rapper?

Jonah Hill spent six years committed to becoming a hip-hop producer before his acting career took off.

The Moneyball star grew up dreaming of becoming a top MC - and hit the studio as Spindrome.

"This is an exclusive," he told U.S. radio show The Breakfast Club on Thursday. "I made a lot of beats... This is very embarrassing - it was Spindrome. Like syndrome, but spin. It was wack, dude. I'm not a good MC or a good producer - I mean I kind of made fire beats - but I still had an MPC (drum machine) and was making beats for six years."

The actor has now found a new passion after stepping behind the camera to make his directorial debut on Mid90s, a coming-of-age tale about an 11-year-old skateboarder growing up in 1990s Los Angeles.

"When I pulled up to the set on the first day of Mid90s, and the cameras were there, and the trucks were there, and the kids were in their costumes, and I was behind the camera, I thought, 'This is home'," he told New York magazine last month. "I knew this is what I wanted out of my life. And I didn't feel like it was given to me. I felt like I had worked for it."

Jonah reveals he used his love of hip-hop music as an "emotional backbone" for the film.

"Hip-hop, like skateboarding, is always misrepresented in film," he said. "It's always shown - people driving through the hood or popping champagne - as some exploitative dumb stereotype. And for me, it was it was very important to make an elegant, honest, emotional film, that showed hip-hop as what it is for me, which is the emotional backbone of my childhood."



More Entertainment News



Movie Listings

221329




230160
RECENT STORIES
227630




232548
Castanet Proud Member of RTNDA Canada
232548



229228