Jamie Foxx’s Ghetto Gospel

Rapper/actor chap Jamie Foxx has called for peace in our time amongst hardcore mic wrestlers who like to shoot each other.

If you struggle to understand why hip-hop artists get so grumpy with one another all the time we won’t be able to help you much. You never saw Frank Sinatra shooting Dean Martin in the head because he stole a joke. Kids these days are just mad.

Jamie Foxx (DVDs) agrees with us to a certain extent and believes the war on the streets has got to stop. Since marked man Suge Knight took one in the leg on Saturday following the MTV Music Video Awards he might well have a point too.

"I love all of those guys, man… (but) if Tupac and Biggie taught you anything, let it go, man." begged Foxx of his contemporaries.

Jamie Foxx is currently fashionable in Hollywood circles following his excellent portrayal of Ray Charles in Ray and his not so dazzling (and shockingly third-billed) turn in Stealth.

Though none of this kudos stops him sounding like retired gangster from The Godfather.

"I’ve been in the game for 20 years. I’ve seen them come and go. You don’t want anything tragic to happen."

Twenty years?! Foxx only looks about twenty-five as it is. A bit of Oscar glory and suddenly he’s as reflective as Paul Newman. Though we do contest hip-hop is a young man’s game, or so MTV tells us anyway.

Will Jamie Foxx stop another Tupac Shakur / Notorious BIG battleground surging between Fat Joe and the recently heckled 50 Cent? Will anybody care enough to read about it if he does?

Probably, we don’t know. You’re reading this, aren’t you?

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[story by Chris Laverty]