Idris Elba is looking back at his cameo on Jay-Z‘s album American Gangster. On Monday night (August 8), the 49-year-old actor appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon where he explained how he “hustled” his way onto the 52-year-old rapper’s 2007 album. Click inside to read more… Around the same time Jay was working on the album, Idris was filming the Ridley Scott movie American Gangster, which was also released in 2007. “So I was in American Gangster and at the time I heard Jay was about to do an album associated with the film and I was like, ‘I need to get on that.’ As you do,” Idris said. “No idea why Jay-Z would be like, ‘Yeah, sure!
Do it!’” “So Lenny S., who works with Jay, was a good friend of Oronde [Garrett, Idris’ manager]. I wrote this long poem [with] a friend of mine, we put it to a beat — actually it was a rap, but it didn’t sound good as a rap,” Idris recalled. “So I said, ‘Maybe I should speak this.’ ‘Cause Jay might be a little more accommodating to my speaking voice.
I sent it to him and we got this text back from Jay saying, ‘I don’t love this… I f–king love it.’” Make sure you check out the trailer for Idris Elba‘s upcoming thriller Beast, which will be out in theaters on August 19.
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