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![Dominic West, aka Detective Jimmy McNulty, is a British actor who had to adjust his accent to be authentic in his role on the iconic TV series ‘The Wire’. The show is set in Baltimore and is suffused with Baltimore culture, including its language. Co-creator Ed Burns said that West spent a lot of time going over the accent with David Simon: ‘“Now, say it like po-lice.” “Police.” “No, po-lice.”’ Others helped out as well. Peter Gerety, a veteran of stage and screen who played Judge Daniel Phelan, said West asked him for guidance: He said, ‘I need you to listen to me. I’ve got to get this Baltimore accent down,’ because, of course, he’s British. He actually does a really good American accent, but I sort of sat with him, and he just worked through stuff for a couple of days, just to get his Baltimore accent closer. Not that I was all that great with it, but I think I helped him a little bit. Dominic West elaborates on the challenge: It never got any easier for me. It was a real problem for me, actually. I worked pretty hard on it. I think the producers felt that, eventually, perhaps I wouldn’t need the coach anymore, but I did. I needed it right up until we wrapped the whole series, and it was a constant effort particularly any time he [McNulty] got emotional or you started shouting. That’s when you lose the accent and start going into your own accent. I always dreaded those scenes, and it was a pain.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2010477950999974162/amplify_video_thumb/2010477841586999297/img/NXvO3pgUoK9CQDue.jpg)
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Last week during her interview with Nardwuar, R&B artist Fousheé turned the tables by giving Nard a gift, a signed harmonica by one of his favorite artists Neil Young. Nardwuar ends all of his interviews by saying "keep on rocking in the free world", a reference to the 1989 song by Neil Young.
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Method Man had heard about Limp Bizkit and wanted to record with them because he had never worked with a rock band. DJ Premier produced the song even though he was hesitant to do so at first. After a face-to-face meeting with Durst and learning that Method Man would be featured on the track, Premier became more interested. Durst impressed Premier by offering to work closely with him in order to improve his performance, and revealing he owned the entire DJ Premier Tape Kingz mixtape collection.
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50 Cent lets the instrumental play and doesn't rap the first verse of "Amusement Park" as he walks off the stage "tryna figure out where everybody at" during his 2007 BET Awards performance. Pimp C was quoted afterwards saying "I just saw 50 Cent walk off the stage at the BET Awards with no bodyguards right in front of all those dudes that said they was gonna slap him when they saw him and I ain't see nothing happen to him." 50 was beefing with Fat Joe, Ja Rule & Irv Gotti at the time.
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Lil Wayne explained how the label took a gamble on him when Destiny's Child reached out for a verse on "Soldier". He was told that his verse was not a guarantee to make the record and that they had other artists ready to go. Wayne explained that he felt salty because Destiny's Child used to open at shows that were being headlined by the Hot Boys. a 22-year-old Lil Wayne earned his first top ten hit on the Hot 100 with his appearance on Destiny Child's 2004 single "Soldier" feat. T.I. & Lil Wayne.
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The Notorious B.I.G. was not happy with The Roots after they released the video for “What They Do”. He felt that The Roots were taking a direct jab at his work and commented in The Source that he had been disrespected by them. In the early years of their career, The Roots were relatively unknown, but they had one very famous supporter in The Notorious B.I.G. He was a huge fan of the band and went out of his way to support them whenever he could. Questlove said, “Biggie was like our biggest champion. When he did Ego Trip magazine he championed us and Jeru higher than anyone. He put Brooklyn onto The Roots.” However, things took a sour turn when The Roots released the video for their song “What They Do.” The video was a sarcastic take on the rise of champagne culture and the growing divide between the haves and have-nots. Questlove said that while they didn’t intend to directly reference someone’s video, they ended up making a video that was similar in style to Biggie’s “One More Chance.” “We told the director we don’t want to do a direct reference to someone’s video,” Questlove said. “We just talking about the impending lurking of this new — at the time it seemed like the new apartheid — the have-nots versus the haves. Based on the way the set looked, we didn’t know we were doing a direct reference to ‘One More Chance.’ So, when we saw the final cut, they showed it to us and I was like ‘Oh, damn.’ But it was too late. When The Source reached out to Questlove for a comment, he offered instead to write an op-ed fully explaining himself. However, the next day, Biggie was k*lled. Questlove: I said, let me do an op-ed. What I wanted to do was kind of explain the dangers, New York was kind of becoming divided by the haves and the have-nots and I wrote this beautiful manifesto. I faxed it to The Source, and literally, I called The Source. It took me 10 hours to do it. It was great. Called The Source and said ‘Okay, I’m ready to send the response-to-Biggie op-ed.’ And they’re like ‘Oh God, you didn’t hear what happened did you?’ And I was like ‘What are you talking about?’ They said ‘Biggie’s dead.’ And that k*lled me. I never made it right.”
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The moment Jamie Foxx won the role of Ray from Ray Charles. As production for 'Ray' began in July of 2002, Foxx and Charles met up for a "trial-by-jam session", so the actor could pick up on some of the musician's piano-side charm. He ended up earning Charles' blessing, and avoided meeting with him again-instead using tapes provided by Quincy Jones of a 1959 Dinah Shore show interview to study the "younger" Ray. For the role, Foxx studied braille, lost 35 pounds, and wore prosthetic eye pieces that made him unable to see for 12 hours each day. Foxx won the Oscar for Best Actor at the 2005 Academy Awards.
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