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.
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