Post by FO on Apr 9, 2006 23:19:10 GMT 1
The Fugees' Pras Goes For Broke
The Fugees' Pras Michel is presently filming "First Night," a documentary in which he's living on a $1 per day budget in Los Angeles.
The film captures the Grammy Award-winning rapper posing as a homeless man in Los Angeles.
"The dollar a day didn't get me much at all," Pras told New York's Daily News. "You have to hustle, steal, shoplift or prostitute yourself. I chose panhandling. People gave me the worst looks. Like I was invisible and at the same time the worst person on Earth."
Pras, who phoned into Daily News to share his experience, said he only earned $8 after seven hours of begging, adding that he wasn't able to access a Hollywood restaurant to buy food.
"I went into the Standard to get some food," Pras revealed. "I showed the security guards my money but they threw me right out, because I looked homeless and my money was in change."
Furthermore, Pras, carrying a hidden camera, witnessed homeless people defecating on the sidewalk during the afternoon and taking heroine near a Los Angeles Police Department station. "I slept in the rain," Pras offered. "My tent was stolen. I experienced how these people live."
Pras hoped to finish the documentary last night (April 5). He plans on screening the movie at the Toronto Film Festival this September.
"People aren't going to understand what it was like until they see it," Pras stressed. "Human beings should not be sleeping among rats."
In related news, the recently reunited Fugees and Columbia Records have partnered with Verizon Wireless to offer songs from their upcoming album exclusively on Verizon's music service VCast.
The Fugees' Pras Michel is presently filming "First Night," a documentary in which he's living on a $1 per day budget in Los Angeles.
The film captures the Grammy Award-winning rapper posing as a homeless man in Los Angeles.
"The dollar a day didn't get me much at all," Pras told New York's Daily News. "You have to hustle, steal, shoplift or prostitute yourself. I chose panhandling. People gave me the worst looks. Like I was invisible and at the same time the worst person on Earth."
Pras, who phoned into Daily News to share his experience, said he only earned $8 after seven hours of begging, adding that he wasn't able to access a Hollywood restaurant to buy food.
"I went into the Standard to get some food," Pras revealed. "I showed the security guards my money but they threw me right out, because I looked homeless and my money was in change."
Furthermore, Pras, carrying a hidden camera, witnessed homeless people defecating on the sidewalk during the afternoon and taking heroine near a Los Angeles Police Department station. "I slept in the rain," Pras offered. "My tent was stolen. I experienced how these people live."
Pras hoped to finish the documentary last night (April 5). He plans on screening the movie at the Toronto Film Festival this September.
"People aren't going to understand what it was like until they see it," Pras stressed. "Human beings should not be sleeping among rats."
In related news, the recently reunited Fugees and Columbia Records have partnered with Verizon Wireless to offer songs from their upcoming album exclusively on Verizon's music service VCast.
