Daniel Radcliffe raps like Blackalicious on Tonight Show
Harry Potter star proves he's a lyrical wizard, rapping Alphabet Aerobics for Jimmy Fallon
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe cast a spell over The Tonight Show audience Tuesday night with a show-stopping performance of Blackalicious's classic rap hit Alphabet Aerobics.
"I’ve always had an obsession with memorizing complicated, lyrically intricate and fast songs," the British actor confessed to host Jimmy Fallon. "It's a disease."
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The admission prompted Fallon to hand Radcliffe a microphone and the challenge of performing the super tricky song, which the 25-year-old actor handily accepted.
- On mobile? Watch Daniel Radcliffe's performance here
Radcliffe stunned the audience, which gave him a standing ovation, when he dropped his accent and flawlessly conquered the song's tongue twisting rhymes, which include verbal hurdles like:
Casually create catastrophes, casualties
Cancelling cats got their canopies collapsing
Detonate a dime of dank daily doin' dough
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If you want to see how the former boy wizard stacks up to the original, check out Blackalicious's version in the video below. Warning: it contains explicit language.
- On mobile? Watch Blackalicious perform Alphabet Aerobics here
Promoting new movie
Radcliffe is currently on the talk show circuit promoting his new movie, Horns. The supernatural thriller fantasy centres on a young man played by Radcliffe who wakes up after his girlfriend's mysterious death to find the growths on his head.
It's a dark departure for the former Harry Potter child star, who described the transition in a 2013 interview with CBC News.
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"Obviously, when you're doing it from such a huge franchise there's a lot of speculation over whether you'll be able to [pull it off]," he said.
"But I can't pay too much attention to that. I've just got to carry on finding films that I love and scripts that I'm passionate about and hope for the best."
Horns opens in select theatres on Friday.