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TERRENCE HOWARD WONT SING ‘PIMP’ ANTHEM AT OSCARS: Nominated actor believes Three 6 Mafia will do the honors.
*Black folks will be spared the Oscar night discomfort of having to watch the lone African American best actor nominee sing about the challenges of being a pimp.
Speaking to reporters at the annual Oscar nominees luncheon in Beverly Hills Monday (Feb. 13), Howard said he will not perform best song nominee “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp,” which he sings in the film “Hustle & Flow.”
"We don't have time in the schedule to work all that stuff out," says Howard, who received a nomination for his role as a pimp yearning for a rap career. "It took me seven months to find DJay and find that voice. I don't think I could give it the full service that I gave it in the film."
Instead, Howard believes the writers of the ditty – Three 6 Mafia’s Jordan "Juicy J" Houston, Cedric "Crunchy Black" Coleman and Paul "DJ Paul" Beauregard – will perform the song at the March 5th event.
"They're the ones that wrote it and they're the ones that are nominated for that song," says Howard. "It would be different if it were just plain old me."
Howard, 36, says he’s looking forward to seeing how the expletive-filled song is received in LA’s Kodak Theater.
"I'm ready to see the entire roomful of people in there singing 'It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp,'" Howard says, adding, "If they know the words, then we really got a problem."
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