The 6 Most Embarrassing Rapper Cameos in Horror Films

These might not be the best horror movies to check out this Halloween.

Embarrassing Rappers Horror Movies
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Embarrassing Rappers Horror Movies

As a fan, the joy of watching horror movies isn’t just seeing people killed in inventive ways or getting the shit scared out of you—the audience also gets to see actors and actresses ham it up to varying degrees of scene-chewing cheesiness. But with the influx of new and established talents throwing in their own twist on being hardened survivors or unlucky victims, more recently the genre has decided to throw in cameos by musicians and non-actors to connect better with their bloodthirsty audience.

In the early 90’s, hip-hop was becoming a highly bankable and popular musical genre in the mainstream, so the the movie industry took note and started casting rappers in movies for no reason other than to bring in the hip Generation Next crowd. This worked to varying degrees (Ice Cube is still laughing to the bank from the Are We There Yet? Cinematic universe), but the most shameless version of the method was featuring rappers in horror movies. Breaking down this list of embarrassing horror movie cameos took us far and wide, and included way too many Leprechaun in The Hood entries to get through—but we think we’ve found the worst. From the absolutely non-sensical to the most #problematic, the “actors” in these roles were the most gratuitously bad attempts to connect horror movies to an urban audience ever conceived.

LL Cool J

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Ice-T

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Busta Rhymes

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Trey Songz

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Snoop Dogg

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Redman

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