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Joaquin Phoenix faked a rap career for a year

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Sometimes the greatest performance is just aggressively annoying the entire world. Joaquin Phoenix spent a solid year claiming he was retiring from acting to become a hip-hop artist. He grew a massive beard, gave disastrous interviews, and performed terrible rap songs in clubs, all as an elaborate, miserable piece of performance art for a mockumentary.

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