Video: Joaquin Phoenix On Letterman

Letterman is usually okay with me, but he does have a horrible track record of just being a fucking asshole to some of his guests from time to time for no apparent reason...I think what happened on the show last night is a perfect example. Letterman started in on Joaquin right from the get go with the stupid fucking comments on his beard.....then Dave started comin wit the fake love and all the backhanded insults thinly veiled over insincere compliments......he was acting like a fucking uptight, judgemental, housewife bitch....

I can even admit that Joaquin's behavior was a bit off and reserved, and maybe you could be slightly thrown off by it, but Letterman was acting like he [Phoenix] was just being totally out there on the same level of Farrah Fawcett (who can forget that shit eh? lol), when that wasn't the case at all and it wouldn't have taken much to turn the interview around. Just a Shameful ratings grab on Letterman's part in my opinion....tryin' to over hype an off-beat interview, that was so, mainly because of his own redundancy....SMH. I liked it better when Madonna was on punking the shit outta him back in the 90's.......Last night Joaquin just shut down early on because of Letterman's condescending line of questioning and than began to react to how lame and off-color the audience's, Paul's and David's sense of humor was.....

Conan going to L.A. can't come soon enough....

As far as Phoenix tryin to get into the underground Hip-Hop scene goes, I hope he pursues that, and I know he will......he shouldn't think that he's gonna be successful right away, or that people aren't gonna be overly critical of what he puts out, but do remember that if you work at your craft and you stay true to the roots of the culture you'll be respected as an artist by the real heads. I mean personally I have always been a fan of Joaquin's flicks because his talent is undeniable....I know that he's an intelligent cat that is a big time fan of golden age Hip-Hop, who grew up in Puerto Rico, traveled across South America and is a huge human rights activist. I'm honored that someone as well traveled and worldy as him would want to be apart of the culture I love. Hopefully he achieves what he is trying to do, but at the end of the day the most you could ever ask for is just to be a respected artist/emcee and That's why even 20 years after their reign at the top was over, guys and gals like Big Daddy Kane, Rakim, Queen Latifah, Craig G, Krs-One and MC Lyte are regarded as royalty ova here......props to Joaquin for citing Trendz Of Culture, Wu-Tang and early Ice Cube in some of his recent interviews as a major influence as well, that right there alone proves he's off to a good start.....

he should just stop doin interviews right now man.....they all are gonna be so subversive and judgemental.....that or it'll be a Hollywood, All Acess or a TMZ type journalist who knows jack squat about hip-hop tryin to ask him stupid shit over and again......just like Letterman.....

just do you Joaquin.....fuck everyone else....good luck brutha....

-BIG D O