10 Celebrity Musicians Hidden In Your Favourite Video Games

3. 50 Cent - Modern Warfare 2

He bagged his very own video game in 2005 with 50 Cent: Bulletproof (with fellow rappers Eminem and Dr. Dre accompanying him) then again in the more surreal 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, but in between dropping beats and declaring bankruptcy, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson lent his vocal cords to one of 2009’s biggest releases, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

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“Fiddy” was part of the voice crew used for the American Rangers in the campaign, multiplayer team and Spec Ops missions, saying mostly generic lines and was only really audible to the keenest of ears. Some of his music can also be found in one of the introduction levels, S.S.D.D., playing on a radio next to some marines fixing a humvee. A version of the song Til I Collapse featured on the game’s soundtrack, although performed primarily by Eminem, features Jackson, as well as late rapper Nate Dogg.

MW2 had two major Hollywood names as central characters with Keith David and Lance Henrikson, but hiding among the other soldiers’ voices were Bojack Horseman himself Will Arnett and Saving Private Ryan sniper Barry Pepper.

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