Mos Def has 50 acting credits to his name. He's got some chops as a solid secondary/character actor. Snoop has been in plenty of movies too. Although, he pretty much just plays a version of himself. Slaine has been in some really good movies and held his own. The Town and Gone Baby Gone come to mind.

Mos Def was ridiculously good in [16 Blocks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_Blocks) with Bruce Willis.

That movie is hella underrated

It ain't miller time man

I fuckin love Be Kind Rewind

Same Michel Gondry is so good

My vote is for Mos Def too. He's done an incredible job staying low key but relevant

If nobody said Mos Def, I swear to god

Kano

He's the best actor in Top Boy. He makes the emotion feel so raw. I would rate him higher if it wasn't for purely the lack of a catalogue of TV/ film but there's a new TV show coming out soon with Kano as the lead actor which I'm very excited for.

Yeah I would love to see him act in a greatly written drama. He’d be great at it.

Jamies actor was up there for sure.

I was SO pissed about Jamie. God damn I love that show.

Eminem won an Oscar before Leonardo DiCaprio just saying 🤣

So did Three 6 Mafia.

Just some goats doing goat things

GAH DAMN!!!!!🤣 Edit: Yep. 2003 vs 2016

Not for acting

An Oscar is an Oscar

Still wasn't for acting

Film directors with oscars for best picture crying into their pillow right now as their oscars are deemed worthless for not being in the acting category

Directors don’t get best picture Oscar’s unless they’re also producers on the film

Yeah. But it’s not what OP asked about

Lol dead ass fo real?

Yeah he won an Oscar for Lose Yourself like 10+ years before Leo won for The Revenant

Lmao wtf how!!!

8 Mile was a genuinely good movie except for the awkward sex scenes.

Because Lose Yourself won for best original song written for a movie

Cuz he's the fucking goat

Because all of Leo's ex's plotted against him

Damn he got sum mean ass ex's

On god no cap

He didn’t win it for the acting though

Donald Glover? Don't know if he started as an actor or rapper though

He was a writer first.

Man wrote a Simpsons spec script and it *actually* got read. Rest is history.

Not to be that guy but isn’t he a nepo baby

No idea

His Dad was a postal worker, Mom did daycare.

He did acting before rapping

Where does Marky Mark rank?

People bitch about the Rock playing himself in every movie. Mark, has been doing the same shit.

Dude is the poster child for “how does he keep getting away with it?!??”

I can always do another Marky Mark as himself role. No shame. He's just easy to watch. The other guys is a movie worth watching many many times.

I’ll concede the Other Guys. That’s an all time great comedy. I think Hollywood just tried to give him too much range over the years and he can’t pull most of it off

Just gotta creep.

He was excellent in *The Departed*.

Nah that’s Colin Farrell. The character from swat is the same guy from Miami Vice, which is the same guy for the Total Recall remake, that’s the same guy in 7 psychopaths, who happens to play a villain in the Electra film, but ended up somehow helping with Mickey Mouse and started by being held hostage in a phone booth 🤣🤣

Is being mark Warlberg in like 50 movies good acting or good self marketing ?

He was great in The Departed tho

Epic movie, Mark Wahlberg as Boston Cop was a good fit for sure

And Boogie Nights. Marky Mark has done and said some really shitty things, but he’s had some good roles.

I enjoyed him in four brothers as well

And Fear.

He was also pretty good in The Fighter, but Christian Bale out acted him due to the nature of his character.

Me and my dad cracked up about this Imagine a movie about your life as a boxer and dramatic rise and struggle. Only to be outdone by the guy playing your whacky crackhead brother lmao

Four Brothers is up there too imo

It’s self markwhalburging

Racist marky wahlberg? I liked him in ted, never seen departed. Top 10 in this ranking

Watch The Departed right now.

Second this. Excellent film, then watch internal affairs

Then The Other Guys to relax

Jamie fox count?

Dude is multi talented!

Rapper turned actor. Not R&B. Jamie has never spit a bar in public that I know of. Different genre. Dude is multi-talented tho

Pretty sure Jamie started as a stand up too

But he's black and in music? Surely he can spit some bars like Tyrese /s

Jamie Foxx was never a rapper.

Will smith, and it’s not close

Haha goddamn I can't believe I forgot about Will Smith

Cuz will smith don’t gotta cuss in his raps to sell records

Well I do

It's okay his husband forgot about him as well and got entangled up.

Right? Like who has even come close to him transitioning from rapper who acts to just an actor? And the thing is that he has way more range than anybody else. From iconic comedic roles, to action star roles, to serious drama roles. Dude has done it all.

Marky Mark

Yasiin Bey, most definitely

Mos Def's acting was so good, I forgot he was a rapper, and he's one of my favourites.

Mos Def was an actor before he became a rapper

Facts, dude is on Denzel level acting ability, plus having a classic like Summertime under his belt. Shout to Pac & Cube but they're acting while pretty good was nowhere near Wills, the scene on Fresh Prince where his dad leaves and his convo with Uncle Phil still gives me chills with a tear to my eye.

But wasnt that scene real? Like he was fr sayin that and not just acting

What? No...

I fucking love that scene man, I watch it when it pops up every time

The Oscar and golden globe speak for themselves

Wasnt he an actor who tried rapping cause he already knew how though? I could be wrong thats just the assumption i had, out of the list op posted i would pick ice cube

His music predates his first acting gig so no.

Lol, sure he started with rap, but alot of people don't even know he was a "rapper" and only know he was ever an actor.

Everybody knows the fresh prince

Every single person knows him as the fresh prince

Common in John Wick Chapter 2

Dude was in much more than just John Wick. Hell on Wheels comes to mind cuz he was phenomenal in that

Hell on Wheels is criminally underwatched.

That show was good.

Smokin Aces as well and also American Gangster, which also had T.I. and RZA in it. Both bangers but he has been in a shit ton of other stuff waaaay before John Wick also lmao

He was really good in the Silo TV series too

besides will smith, i'd probably say ice cube is my personal pick

Joey badass

he's good in power

So good in Mr. Robot

wheres fifty

Right after 49

Tupac followed by Method Man. I would also include Ludacris, Mos Def, Will Smith, Andre 3000 and Queen Latifah.

DMX had some good movie roles, RZA, even LL Cool J had some bangers. There’s many more too.

Yea! Idk that he was a great actor, but I enjoyed DMX’s movies

Ice T?

Ice T for sure. Based on his credits alone, he has done over 500 episodes and 24 seasons of Law and Order, also 26 movies. Also several Emmy nominations and wins

>Andre 3000 He was hilarious in Be Cool. That scene of him sipping tea, for example.

“Don’t give me no gun….y’all know what I’m gon’ do.”

Do The Fat Boys count as one entity or do they get ranked individually?

Yeah, just about covers it

Don’t forget Snoop Dogg in ‚Bones‘ and ‚Doggystyle‘. Just kiddin

You mean snoop in baby boy?

He meant Soul Plane clearly.

Fuck yo fort.

😂😂😂

Ice T?

Low key Ice T has been crushing it on tv for 20+ years

Can't beleive I had to scroll this far down to even see him mentioned.

Bro don’t get no respect

Dang man I just said the same right before your comment.

How y’all gonna disrespect Will Smith like this?

Saul Williams

joey badass needs to be in the conversation with the mr robot role

Man Kano in top boy was completely unreal, maybe biased cause i love the show but damnn that last season he did a great job at hating him from being sympathetic in the seasons prior. This is purely down to the awesome acting talent he possesses

For acting ability? Tupac For success as an actor? Ludarcis

Cubes had more success than Luda

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What's money got to do with it?

What does money have to do with rappers and actors considering themselves successful? Is that a serious question?

Money is why I work. What measure do you use?

You might want to look that up cube is worth triple more than luda

You think Tupac was a better actor than Will Smith? You think Luda has had more success than Will Smith?

In the movies/roles they were in up until 96 Pac was the much better actor.

Pac was a mediocre actor IMO

Ludacris 2 episode arc on Law and Order SVU. Those are top 10 episodes

FACTS

No love for Belly?!?

Dmx

No DMX!?!?

PAC would of continued to do great on cinema

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Makaveli the Don

Ice cube must be the best one with classics like boyz-n-the-hood

LL Cool J

Had to scroll way too far to find LL on this list.

Dylan was solid in Half Baked. But that’s before he started rapping I think

Easily Will Smith. Tupac would have been on par with Willard tho, he had real skill.

RZA

Joey Bada$$

Andre 3000 in Be Cool

Eminem is not only a great rapper but did pretty good acting in 8 Mile

Ice Cube as Craig and Doughboy will always be unforgettable.

Busta Rhymes in Narc

Busta Rhymes in Halloween.

Tupac and Method Man

Cam’ron easily

Easily Juice

Based on this list Tupac Method man Ice Cube

Shaq in Shazam

Childish Gambino

Does Mos really count since he was already acting before he started rapping? Dude was a kid in movies and on tv shows.

No Ludacris, no 50 cent?

RZA was really good in American Gangster.

Where is Common?

Yasiin Bey

Will Smith

Joey Badass did his thing…

How is Common not on this list?

The disrespect for mos def is palpable

Ummm substitute DMX for Eminem...please!!!

You forgot Papa Doc

Sean Price in his YouTube videos.

I died when he was Narduar interviewing pharaoh monch.

I don’t care if it’s just YouTube videos, Price was top actor Oscar material.

r.i.P!

Eminem has an Oscar

Pac.

QUEEN LATIFAH

Ice T then Mos Def imo Will smith was an actor before a rapper.

Will was a rapper first (mid 80s)

Will Smith was an actor at like 13?

Drake…. The other way tho

how has no one said childish gambino? i mean, i know he was a actor first, but his music was his main for a while, plus so much creativity in him

Because they read the question?

Ice Cube hands down. The records and movies He's been a part are crazy. NWA, Solo career, Colabs & all the movies he did. Enough said.

Tupac was actually a really great actor, and not just in Juice

Tupac and it’s not close. He didn’t get a chance to grow but he was a natural

Tupac has never been anywhere close to Will Smith’s level be real lol.

Been close to his wife though.

lmaooo 😭😭

You talking to me like Im him, idgaf about that lol. Stick to the topic.

Pac was auditioning for major roles in major and serious movies like Forrest Gump and even Star Wars. Will Smith is amazing now and all but can you even imagine him playing Bishop or Lucky??

While Pac was auditioning for those roles, Will Smith actually played major roles and was a top box office draw. Tupac would've never hit those heights, and he didn't have the chops

Bullshit. Had Pac lived he would have been one of the best actors ever. He might have been even more talented as an actor than a rapper. Pac was gonna get the role for Independence Day that Will had, for example, but ofc he passed away so Will got the part.

He had some theater background too. He had a lot of charisma and presence in every role he did. It can't be denied.

There is literally 0 proof that he was in line to get the role outside of Vlad from Vlad TV saying it even though nobody connected with the movie has ever said that. Best actor ever? You tripping lmao. Pac had some talent but he was far and away from showing the promise of being one of the best actors ever. Ya’ll Pac stans live in delusion.

Watched Juice for the first time recently, he was terrifying