Ali plays a jazz musician in his new movie, “Green Book,” and was once a rap musician known as Prince Ali. #GreenBook review: “Distinctive and…
Ali plays a jazz musician in his new movie, “Green Book,” and was once a rap musician known as Prince Ali.
#GreenBook review: “Distinctive and amusing turns by Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali make Peter Farrelly’s first solo feature outing a lively and likable diversion” https://t.co/SpuFdlSjqC
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) November 17,2018
Ali did more than sing; he founded a label known as Eye5 Recordings in 2006. He described his love for hip-hop music in 2017.
“I love hip hop. It’s such an appendage for me. It’s something that’s always shaped my experience out in the world. I always make mixtapes for every character that I’m playing. Sonically, that character has a soundtrack.”
He went on to explain that hip-hop had “perhaps the strongest influence” on his life.
Strahan asked Ali whether he was still writing rap in his free time, to which he said that he’s been working on something for a couple of years that’s related to “a project associated specifically with a film” but that he has no intention to pursue rap as a career path. He provided no details on the film for which he’s working on his new music.
