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Hip-Hop culture has always been a lucrative means to lure in fans into subscribing to a product and that couldn’t be more evident than rapper cameos in movies as well as various television shows.

Following Eminem’s deadpan, closet-exiting appearance in The Interview, we have compiled several other rapper cameos in movies and TV that are just as random.


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Chingy in Scary Movie 4 (2006)

Guess who was “right thurr” in the VIP section of the evil alien spaceship?

Photo: Warner Bros.

Westside Connection on The Jamie Foxx Show (1997)

Ice Cube and the crew were hoo-banging at a California hotel to throw a party. Where were their weed-carriers, though?

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Jay Z in Paper Soldiers (2002)

Hov was in the movie for a cool 13 seconds and they had the nerve to give him top billing on the DVD posters.

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Drake in Think Like A Man Too (2014)

Drizzy already told you he goes through phones when she’s not looking. Now we get to see him answering them.

DMX in Top Five (2014)

Hip-Hop head Chris Rock has a soft spot for the Dark Man, which best describes his appearance in the new film.

Photo: HBO

Jim Jones on The Wire (2009)

Because, Capo status.

Eminem in Funny People (2009)

Marshall talked business with Adam Sandler–who was essentially playing himself–and none of it was believable.

Vanilla Ice in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret Of The Ooze (1991)

The kiddie cashmine needed a non-threatening rapper to help with the promotion and Robbie Van Winkle fit the bill. These days, it’s all about Wiz Khalifa.

Photo:Columbia Pictures

MC Hammer in Last Action Hero (1993)

The Arnold Schwarzenegger flick was a movie within a movie and Hammer needed to get on the soundtrack.

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Foxy Brown in Woo (1998)

In just her two minutes of screen time, Foxy managed to bring out that uncouthness with Jada Pinkett that we all know her for.

Kanye West in The Love Guru (2008)

Mike Myers found a way to share a much more enjoyable moment with Yeezy than that Hurricane Katrina telethon.

Photo: Warner Bros.

2Pac & Digital Underground in Nothing But Trouble (1991)

By the time “Same Song” began to play, this movie was already at the bottom of toilet so, why not?