After all, Eminem was trying to be taken seriously as a white rapper. But Eminem couldn’t help himself: “ Ahhhh, we’ll just all stand here like a happy fun bunch! A happy group!” In response, Wahlberg visibly seethed.īut maybe Eminem wasn’t just clowning. Legend has it that the TRL producers had told a snotty and fresh-faced young Eminem that he could not, under any circumstances, say the words “Marky Mark” on-air. Wahlberg had two movies that year, Three Kings and The Corrupter, his buddy flick with Chow Yun-Fat.) Wahlberg happened to be on the same TRL episode as a significantly less goofy white rapper. Maybe Mark Wahlberg was promoting Three Kings when he appeared on MTV’s Total Request Live in 1999. (Ice Cube’s highest-charting single, 1993’s “It Was A Good Day,” peaked at #15.) Wahlberg didn’t wanted to be reminded of his Marky Mark days, but the world wouldn’t let him forget it. In Three Kings, he’s credited as Mark Wahlberg, while Ice Cube, the other early-’90s rap star in the cast, is still Ice Cube. By 1999, Wahlberg had only just made the transition to full-on movie-stardom, leaving behind his goofy white-rapper/underwear-model past. And of course Mark Wahlberg, the former Marky Mark, would’ve never let it happen. The Gulf War ended in February 1991, and “Good Vibrations,” the debut single and only #1 hit from Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch, didn’t come out for another six months.
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