What happened?
We knew Daniel Radcliffe was a polymath: actor, poet, director, activist, even (briefly) guest editor of Time Out. But when he turned up on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Kimmel claiming to be able to pull off a word-perfect rendition of Blackalicious’s notoriously tongue-twisty rap marathon ‘Alphabet Aerobics’, we were watching through our fingers.
The fallout...
We needn’t have worried. Radcliffe’s delivery was perfect, his diction precise and his speed simply jawdropping. It was hardly a moment of great artistic expression – he didn’t write the song, after all – but simply as a technical exercise it was pretty astonishing.
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