Look Out Hip Hop, Here Comes Joaquin Phoenix

No, quite unfortunately that title is not a joke. I'm sure most you by now know that Joaquin Phoenix has retired from acting in order to become a musician. Ok, that's stupid because you're a good actor and just because you played a talented musician in a movie doesn't make you one, but it's respectable. Going after your dreams is something that can never truly be frowned upon. The guy simply wants to tap into a different part of his artistic capabilites, right? Wrong. It turns out, and this I'm going to quote from another article so you know it's for real, "Phoenix is embarking on a new path as a rapper, with an album to be produced by Sean Combs." I don't know if while on the set of We Own the Night he and Marky Mark had some rap battles and Joaquin thought he was on to something, but this could not be a worse decision. Not only is he becoming a rapper, but Cassey Affleck (the two are friends and that better be the only reason for him doing this), is going to direct a documentary about Joaquin's musical career. I can only imagine it will be the shortest film of all time.

I don't know if Joaquin knows this or not, but not many actors-turned musicians go on to have a very successful music career. The likes of Bruce Willis, Eddie Murphy, David Hasselhoff, Tony Danza, and Steven Seagal have all tried, and failed, to have a successful music career (however, Murphy's My Girl Likes to Party All the Time is fantastic.) The only people who have any success are the ones that do it the other way around, a la Will Smith and Mark Wahlberg, although I still have no idea how Wahlberg managed to become an actor after that heinous start.

At any rate, best of luck to you Joaquin. I'll probably listen to your first single and deem it horrible and then watch the documentary about you just to see how bad it is. The first performance is to occur tonight in Las Vegas. I can't wait to watch it on youtube. You can check out a practice performance if you follow this link. It's truly awful.