After years of being
indirectly involved with Hip-Hop music, actor/pop singer Patrick Swayze is finally
experimenting with rap music.
Swayze recently said he was experimenting with “rap rhythms
as an emotional undercurrent for ballads.”
The 53-year-old Swayze had a massive hit with the song “She’s
Like The Wind” from the soundtrack to the film "Dirty Dancing"
in 1987.
The song is one of the most played songs in the history of radio
and helped the Dirty Dancing soundtrack sell over 11 million records.
Hip-Hop fans are familiar with Swayze, who has starred in such
classic movies as “Red Dawn,” “Roadhouse,” “The
Outsiders” and “Ghost.”
Swayze’s last name has been used as Hip-Hop slang since
the early 1990’s, when EPMD popularized the term on various albums.
In U.S. rap vernacular, the term "Swayze" means to
“leave” or “disappear,” cleverly derived from the title
of his 1990 hit film “Ghost.”
Swayze resurfaced in the rap world again in 2002, when he starred
as an aggressive FBI agent named “Detective Fitzgerald” in Ja Rule’s
video “Reign,” taken from Ja’s The Last Temptation album.
The controversial video came during an actual federal investigation
of The Inc.’s Irv and Chris Lorenzo for money laundering, charges the
brothers were eventually acquitted of.
Swayze, who has a role in the new flick “Keeping Mum,”
did not peg a release date on his new material.
Swazye is currently
filming “Fox and The Hound II.”
