MC Swayze

And I'm not talking about a new McDonald's "burger" here.

The best news (and by "best" I mean "most entertaining", not necessarily the "best" "idea") I've heard all year - 5 days in now! - is that Point Break star Patrick Swayze wants to release a rap single! www.allhiphop.com reports:

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.”

You'll recall the 53-year-old Swayze had a pretty darn big hit with the song “She’s Like The Wind” from the soundtrack to the film Dirty Dancing in 1987.

Does that make him a "singer" then? So what, does that mean my neighbour is a private investigator just because he spies on me through my windows?

I think Swayze just took his cue from the underground uprising a few years back when the hip-hop community cited the whitest-white man ever, Phil Collins, as an inspiration to rap music!

And since Swayze's last name has been used as hip-hop slang since the early 1990's (the term "Swayze" means to "leave" or "disappear", clearly derived from the title of his 1990 hit film Ghost), he's decided that opens the door for him to explore this avenue.

Uhhh, I really can't believe this is real. I have heard stories of the Armageddon coming when the Mayan calendar comes to a close in 2012, but this is ridiculous. How in the world can he be a rapper? Does he even have any money left?

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.

Oooh, what a bad, bad boy he is!

Currently playing: The Darkness - Is It Just Me?