Randall Park can rap? On Friday, Sway shared a clip of the MCU actor spitting an insane two-minute freestyle over a beat from in-house producer ItsReallyDB.
“Peeing on you peons for eons/Only sparing the infants and octogenarians/See, I was born with an ability to transform/Into a chiseled individual with ram horns/Off a diet of Spam and canned corn/When I clap, competition gets trapped in the sandstorm,” Park raps.
Park’s performance was met with praise from his Young Rock co-star The Rock (“I worked closely with Randall for years.. where the fuck did this flow come from!?!” he wrote), West Coast rap legends Freestyle Fellowship, and producer 9th Wonder, among others.
This is far from the first time the actor has spit some bars in public. Park has a known penchant for rapping, recently appearing on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, where he performed with The Roots.
“Hello, my name is Randall/Enemies, I strangle/Kick ‘em in the butt with the foot up to the ankle/Next day, get an X-ray, there’s my sandal,” he rapped in the March episode. “Panhandling rappers get mashed and manhandled/Similar to Rambo in camo, grammar is my ammo/Blast at you simpletons and randos.”
Park has also flexed his songwriting abilities onscreen. He co-wrote and performed the immortal song “I Punched Keanu Reeves” (“It’s Keanu with the bruise around the oculus/Now I’m just cruising the metropolis, in my prime like Optimus”) for his 2019 Ali Wong-starring Netflix film, Always Be My Maybe, alongside producer Dan the Automator.
The film’s hip-hop group, Hello Peril, is based on Park’s real-life 90s hip-hop group, Ill Again. With Ill Again, he released the 2004 album Self Titled, and later, with the rap group Novelists, he released the 2008 album Bookends.
