Grand Theft Auto 5's 'Franklin' Voiced by Rapper Who Robbed Ice Cube
Grand Theft Auto V character Franklin is voiced by former rapper Shawn "Solo" Fonteno, who claims he knocked out rapper Ice Cube and stole his chain years ago.
His rap feud with Ice Cube is documented in the documentary "Beef 2." In his segment he claims the altercation occurred over a business dispute and a feud with Cypress Hill. He was pro-Cypress Hill, reported HotNewHipHop.com.
"We both hustlers homie, it is what is, you know? He's from South Central, I'm from South Central, that (expletive) over with man ... Holla at ya boy!" Fonteno told TMZ.
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Rockstar Games used real gang members to voice many of the characters in the game to get an authentic feel.
"When we record all these ambient characters that are in the world we go towards authenticity," game producer Lazlow Jones told WGN. "So in the game, part of the element of the story is that there's rival gangs."
"There's black gangs, there's Latino gangs, and we recruited a guy who gets gang members, like actual gang members, real gang members. I mean, El Salvadorian gang dudes with amazing tattoos and one of which literally had gotten out of prison the day before. And we brought these guys in to record the gang characters because you know, you don't want a goofy LA actor who went to a fancy school trying to be a hard gang member. There's nothing worse than that," he continued.
Jones said finding the most "terrifying" people and convincing them to record was the goal from the get go, according to VideoGamer.com.
"And they look at the lines and they say, 'I wouldn't say that. If I was upset at another gang, I wouldn't say that'. So ... say what you would say. Authenticity, you know?" he explained. "There's a lot of sessions that we would have where we would just throw the script on the floor and be like, this thing we wrote is irrelevant, let's just work out something real."
The game launched on Sept. 17 and made over a billion in three days.
