Tony Stark meet Tony Starks

Considering that I’m about to go on a fanboy rampage over the Iron Man film and considering that Ghostface Killah (aka Pretty Toney, aka Tony Starks) is riding high on my playlist, I’m not sure how I missed this report from MTV last year: Ghostface Killah’s Iron Man Obsession Lands Him A Cameo In Upcoming Comic Book Flick. The whole thing sounds a bit Entourage to me, but this quote is a work of genius:

I jumped in there for maybe 12 or 16 bars, nothing too major. It was a good look for the kid because Robert Downey Jr. recognized me as soon as I seen him. He was like, ‘Yo, Tony!’ … For him to recognize me, I was kinda surprised by that. I didn’t know he even knew about the kid. … We called each other Tony onscreen. I’m like, ‘Tony Stark, I got your jet, I didn’t mess it up.’ He was like, ‘I got the Bentley for you, I laced it up.’ I had two girls with me, I was like, ‘That’s you [pointing toward the girls].’ I sent two birds at him. It was a wrap for that scene. He’s a cool dude and funny. Big up to Robert Downey Jr.

Anybody who talks about themselves in the third person as “the kid” has my respect, naturally, but “I jumped in there for maybe 12 or 16 bars, nothing too major” is possibly the best description of a cameo appearance in a film ever.