MC Shia LaBeouf Makes Hip-Hop Debut, Rhymes "Potatoes" With "Galileo"
On Sunday, avant-garde performance artist Shia LaBeouf introduced his latest character, the white rapper persona “Shia LaBeouf,” with a freewheeling freestyle touching on everything from how he eats rivals (like tuna casserole) to how he gets it (like he’s got it).
In the undated, apparently recent footage, the rattail aficionado spits tepid fire for almost three minutes, dropping references to potatoes, astronomer Galileo Galilei and then potatoes again for some reason.
To be fair, for a genuinely spontaneous freestyle, LaBeouf’s performance could have been a lot worse. Still, it’s the sort of thing that partygoers would briskly walk away from if your name wasn’t “Transformers star Shia LaBeouf”—an association the MC really wishes you’d forget about, by the way.
“Transformers is the dummy rap,” says LaBeouf in the video, “and I’m so past that.”
