{"id":47932,"date":"2025-01-28T17:22:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/the-internet-is-baffled-after-dwayne-the-rock-johnson-made-his-rap-debut-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T17:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:22:19","slug":"the-internet-is-baffled-after-dwayne-the-rock-johnson-made-his-rap-debut-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/the-internet-is-baffled-after-dwayne-the-rock-johnson-made-his-rap-debut-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"The internet is baffled after Dwayne \u2018The Rock\u2019 Johnson made his rap debut &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The internet is baffled after Dwayne \u2018The Rock\u2019 Johnson made his rap debut YouTube: Strange Music IncDwayne \u2018The Rock\u2019 Johnson made his self-proclaimed \u201chistoric\u201d rap debut in Tech N9ne\u2019s song \u2018Face Off,\u2019 and clips from the verse have gone super viral on Twitter, with many confused by his latest endeavor. Dwayne Johnson a.k.a. The Rock is a former professional wrestler, but he\u2019s also become well-known for his acting career with starring roles in Fast and Furious as well as other franchises. He\u2019s had a hugely successful career across multiple industries, even appearing in several music videos, but now he\u2019s taken that to the next level by making his self-proclaimed \u201chistoric rap debut.\u201d On October 8, rapper Tech N9ne released his latest track \u2018Face Off,\u2019 featuring Joey Cool, King Iso, and non other than The Rock. https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRock\/status\/1446567231186341891 Johnson has a 40-second verse at the end of the song, and many were actually pretty impressed by his rap skills, calling it \u201ciconic,\u201d and saying they can\u2019t stop listening to the track. However, the clip of the star rapping also quickly proceeded to go viral on Twitter, and people were baffled by The Rock\u2019s latest endeavor, to say the least. \u201cWhy TF is the rock rapping brah,\u201d says one tweet with over 100,000 likes. Another user even quoted the video and added the caption: \u201cThe Rock just completing all the side missions in life now,\u201d which got another 100,000 likes in its own right. The Rock just completing all the side missions in life now https:\/\/t.co\/uuZpH5zoVB \u2014 cryptic incognito (@CrypticNoHoes) October 10, 2021 \u201cPart of me is wondering why TF he doing this, but another part feels like he\u2019s The Rock and therefore can do whatever he wants,\u201d one user wrote, with people joking in response that nobody\u2019s going to stop him. Johnson has been sharing videos of people reacting to his verse for the first time on his Instagram page, and it\u2019s clear that even though some are slightly confused by this new twist in his career, others are actually kind of enjoying the track. Whether he goes on to do more rapping in the future remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet is baffled after Dwayne \u2018The Rock\u2019 Johnson made his rap debut YouTube: Strange Music IncDwayne \u2018The Rock\u2019 Johnson made his self-proclaimed \u201chistoric\u201d rap debut in Tech N9ne\u2019s song \u2018Face Off,\u2019 and clips from the verse have gone super viral on Twitter, with many confused by his latest endeavor. Dwayne Johnson a.k.a. The Rock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}