J. Alphonse Nicholson and Jalen Rose talk music, acting & pot
nypost.comJ. Alphonse Nicholson, who was on a drumline growing up in North Carolina, spent years drumming on the street in New York City before he hit the big time.“You have so many different street musicians who do that,” he told me on this week’s “Renaissance Man.” “But that’s how I made a living, man.
As long as I can make $100 a day. That was what I did every day for a long time,” he said. “I moved to New York, started street drumming there, and then the sky’s the limit, man … I made my way to Broadway.
And first Broadway show, we got the Tony award.”The musician-turned-actor is talking about his role in “A Soldier’s Play” but his résumé is deep with credits on the stage and screen.
He’s had a role in “White Men Can’t Jump,” which debuted on Hulu last month, and he plays closeted rapper Lil Murda on Starz’s “P-Valley.““We all know a Lil Murda, especially coming from our communities.
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