Has a Disney animated character ever rapped before Moana?

June 1, 2017 5:54 AM

Dwayne Johnson as Maui raps a section of "You're Welcome" in Moana. Watching the movie, I was struck by the thought that I'd never heard an animated Disney character rap before. Is this the first time a Disney animated character has rapped, or am I forgetting something?

That's pretty much the whole question, but a couple additional details:

1) I only care about movies that fit both criteria of Disney and animated. I know characters have rapped in non-Disney animated films (so not interested in Dreamworks, Universal, etc.), and I'm pretty sure they've rapped in Disney non-animated films. But in the Animated Canon? I'm not sure.

2) Yeaaah okay, technically the first several Disney-Pixar films are not Disney Animated Films and therefore not part of the Disney Animated Canon. We can ignore that one, in case someone raps in, idk, the first Cars or something.

posted by capricorn to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

Not a movie but how could you forget Mickey Unrapped? Maybe that was so traumatic they let it go (ha) for some decades.
posted by warriorqueen at 7:01 AM on June 1, 2017

Best answer: Doesn't Max (Goofy's son) rap in "The Goofy Movie"?
posted by briank at 7:15 AM on June 1, 2017 [5 favorites]

Your question made me wonder if Genie raps in one of the direct-to-video sequels to Aladdin. I couldn't figure that out by googling, but I found this video in which the guy who plays Genie in the Broadway version of Aladdin adds a rap section to "A Friend Like Me."
posted by ejs at 4:19 PM on June 1, 2017

I can't find an English language YouTube clip of it, but in 'Mary Poppins' Bert does a quick verse with a bunch of women's names right after the song 'Jolly Holiday' and before he dances with the penguins.

Here it is in French.
posted by sideshow at 10:19 AM on June 2, 2017