Idris Elba has spoken about how he “hustled” his way onto Jay-Z’s 2007 album ‘American Gangster’.The actor and musician was speaking to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon about his new film Beast when he recalled securing his way onto the rapper’s 10th album.
He also discussed being featured on Paul McCartney’s 2021 album ‘McCartney III: Imagined‘.“Both these albums I’m on, and both those artists don’t know I’m on those albums,” Elba told host Fallon. “You know what I mean?
I literally hustled my own on to those albums.”He went on to explain that he was starring in the film American Gangster (as the character Tango) which Jay Z took inspiration from his record.“At the time I hear Jay was about to do an album associated with the film,” Elba said. “And I was like, ‘I need to get on that.’ As you do.
You’re like, ‘I’m Idris, I need to be on that Jay-Z album.’ No idea why Jay would be like, ‘Yeah, sure, do it.'”Elba then told Fallon that after connecting with someone who worked with Jay-Z, he wrote a “long poem” that he put to a beat. “Actually it was a rap, but it didn’t sound good as a rap,” he explained. “So I said, ‘Maybe I should speak this’ because Jay might be a little more accommodating to my speaking voice.
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