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Amanda Bynes Has Been Offered A Hip-Hop Record Deal
Amanda Bynes has been saying for some time now that she wants a rap career, and it looks like someone might finally make that dream come true. According to the Huffington Post, producer Daniel Herman of Chinga Chang Records offered the troubled actress a record deal for her to drop her first hip-hop album.
Herman told the website that he's serious about Bynes, and isn't just signing her as some sort of PR stunt.
"She's phenomenal and that's the crazy thing about this," he said. "This is the perfect home. This isn't just a gimmick."
In an interview with Radar, Herman noted that he's the perfect person to bring a Bynes rap album to the masses.
“The fact that Amanda wants to do hip hop music means that Chinga Chang label is the best place for her to do this," he told the gossip site, "because of my past experience with bringing pop and legitimate hip hop together.”
The producer also told both HuffPo and Radar that Bynes is more of a rapper than Drake—who Bynes famously asked to murder her vagina—will ever be.
"If you look at her actions and attitude she represents hip-hop a lot better than Drake," he told HuffPo.
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