He started rapping in the playground and ... a hook-up when his star began to rise - that caught the attention of Idris Elba's label 7Wallace. "Fast forward a couple of months later, and Idris ...

For Idris Elba, stepping into character is typically effortless. But while filming the 2007 movie "American Gangster," the British actor discovered that ...

it's so blatantly raw!" And Idris later worked with the grime don, hopping on a remix of Shutdown in 2015. Elba's verse saw him rap gems like: "Ain't nobody else Stringer Bell, boy from the East ...

Idris Elba is recalling how he prepared to play Nelson Mandela in the 2013 film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. "In 2013, when ...