Posted
January 29, 2009 at
4:54 am by:
Sparkle-C
All my fellow Joaquin Phoenix lovers can breathe a sign of relief – the whole bearded, white-boy rapper reinventing himself thing is a hoax. Well, not so much a hoax as it is an “art project”.

Althought JP officially said Bye! Good to the film industry a few months ago, his disastrous three-song show in Las Vegas earlier this month spawned two schools of thought on just what the hell is going on with him. JP, with the help of his brother-in-law/BFF Casey Affleck is either putting one over on us or he has completely lost his mind.
Friends close to the duo say that it’s all fake…but in a good way. “It’s a put-on. I’m going to pretend to have a meltdown and change careers, and Casey is going to film it,’” says one source who recently worked with Phoenix.
“It’s an art project for him,” says a source. “He’s going full out. He probably has told his reps that he’s quit acting. Joaquin is very smart. This is very conscious. He has a huge degree of control.”
Let’s all just humor the “artist” and let him think we believe his heinous rapping is sincere and maybe he’ll get bored and get back to being a hunky movie star.
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