Reality Rap: Rappers Who Need a Reality Show

Chances are if you’re a rapper looking to do a one-year bid for something incredibly stupid, you’ll get a reality show that documents the “eventful” moments  leading up to your incarceration. With MTV gearing up to kick-off T.I.’s Road to Redemption: 45 Days to Go on February 10, we took a look at what rappers we’d really like to see on reality TV.

Too $hort

For Oakland, CA’s Too $hort, rapping is as easy as ghost riding at a sideshow. In addition to popularizing slang words like “Bee-yotch” and influencing Snoop Doog’s entire vocabulary, Short’s also had a career as a pimp and been involved in the adult film industry. Given that fact, he’d probably  have his show on Cinemax.

Lauryn Hill

The last great female emcee and front woman of The Fugees has enough mental and marital drama to land her a show on the Oxygen Network. Tune in to watch L-Boogie get re-acquainted with her feelings and make some questionable style choices while playing Bob Marley songs on her guitar.

U-God

The least talented popular member of the almighty Wu-Tang Clan, U-God’s show would be the perfect addition to the My Network TV line up. Watch Golden Arms complain about The RZA not paying him enough money, model new hats, shop at the Staten Island Mall and try to recreate the magic of his best Wu-solo effort, “Rumble.”

Jim Jones

Dirt Angel is really good at convincing white hipsters that Harlem’s still hardbody, so he can show viewers where in the area gentrification doesn’t exist. We’re also willing to bet that through the entire course of filming his show, Jimmy showers only once. So when he asks the camera man, “you smell me?” dude can reply, “I wish couldn’t.” Check for it on Bravo, where like with Dipset, the metrosexual thing is still going strong.

Tupac Shakur

Airing on the Travel Channel, Pac’s reality show would follow him around his hideout in Cuba where he’s kicking it Fidel Castro, little green men and reading Machiavelli’s The Prince to The Smurfs. Be sure to tune into a hilarious episode where Pac checks out how he’s depicted in Notorious.

Ja Rule

Actually, no one would green light this show because no one knows where Ja Rule is or cares what’s he up to. Murdaaaaaaaaa!

Those are our picks, what rappers do you guys think should have a reality show?

For more Reality Rap, click here!