Straight Outta Beverly Hills

In 1996 Beverly Hills: 90210 star Brian Austin Green dropped his middle name and recorded a rap album under the shorter, blander moniker Brian Green. Around the same time, Green’s 90210 character, David Silver, also started rapping, blurring the line between fictional privileged white rapper and actual privileged white rapper. With songs such as “You Send Me” and “1-2-Threez,” it’s easy to see why Green’s music career never took off. Comparatively, even Vanilla Ice seemed talented.
Boxer's Delight

Muhammad Ali could float like a butterfly, sting like a bee and sing like a man who couldn’t read music, keep a beat or stay in tune. In 1963, before becoming the heavyweight champion of the world (and ditching the name Cassius Clay), Ali recorded a spoken-word album, I Am the Greatest!, that features hilariously bad covers of Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me” and Sam Cooke’s “The Gang’s All Here,” not to mention a near constant stream of gloating and potshots at rivals — kind of like a Kanye West album without the Auto-Tune.

























