Joaquin Phoenix's New Career: Rapper

Joaquin Phoenix's post-acting life is just getting weirder and weirder.

Phoenix announced last year that he would be retiring from acting to pursue a career in music. Then he started behaving erratically, causing people to wonder if he had fallen off the wagon. 

Now it's been revealed what kind of music Phoenix will be making: Rap. Apparently, he's working on his first album as a rapper and P. Diddy is the producer. Phoenix's first performance will be tonight in Las Vegas.

Seriously? Do you hear that noise, Diddy? It's the sound of your credibility slipping away.

It gets even weirder. While Phoenix has given up the acting profession for now, he'll still be appearing in a film. Casey Affleck, Ben's younger brother and star of such films as Gone Baby Gone and Ocean's Thirteen, will be making the transition to behind-the-camera to film Phoenix's entire transformation into a rapper and then compile it into a documentary. Oh, and Casey is also married to Summer Phoenix, Joaquin's sister, so the whole project is a family affair.

Something tells us that this process is going to be something you don't actually want documented on film...