Before he became a famous Hollywood A-List actor, Mark Wahlberg was Marky Mark along with the Funky Bunch (DJ T, Ashey Ace, and Scottie Gee and Hector, the Booty Inspector)

I remember this like yesterday!

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I did eat some pizza with him and played basketball en video games

It was in and around the tour bus (New Kids on the Block concert in the Netherlands)

Some roadies let us near the tourbus while the concert was going on!

I was 12 or 13?....A memory I will never forget! Great time, real nice guy!

But he wasn't famous back then, just the younger brother (his brother Donny was a member of NKOTB)

garbage

For whatever reason, I was really into the second album, You Gotta Believe back in the day. "Get Up" was a house/club type song that I worked out to a lot. But I somehow acquired the CD, and played it a lot in the mid-90s.

I have both of their albums. The lady sitting on the car is Free who later was on BET. She was one of the dancers for Marky Mark. I saw a interview done earlier this year with Donnie Walhberg and he said that most of this album was going to be his solo debut album from the New Kids. But Mark was getting into trouble at the time and Donnie thought Mark was going to end up in prison, so he decided to give the songs to Mark to give him something more positive to do with his time. Donnie said the Funky Bunch was his group and his buddies, but he put Mark in the group instead.

I found the interview. It was in June 2017 on Sway's radio show.

This is a joke hey? The guy was related to Donnie Wallberg if the NKOTB, it was badly made kiddie dreck aimed at white kids with an average age of 11 and IQ of 76. Thank God they had one album - This kiddie sugar rap made me cringe, the only even slightly interesting member was the black chick Loolayya of something.

Adorecream said:

Thank God they had one album

Some people just post without reading the thread. 2 different people in this thread said there was a 2nd album, and one even put a picture of the 2nd album that is hard to miss.

MickyDolenz said:

Adorecream said:

Thank God they had one album

Some people just post without reading the thread. 2 different people in this thread said there was a 2nd album, and one even put a picture of the 2nd album that is hard to miss.

Yeah I did as I could not be bothered, more shocked that anyone would have the audacity to start a thread about a really talentless and forgettable kiddie act like this. There second album must have flopped as I have never heard of it and I only remember the song Good Vibrations and thought it really sucked. In 1991 I was listening to real rappers like Ice T, LL Cool J, 2 Live Crew and NWA. And my favourite act was Public Enemy, not this pap rap.

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Adorecream said:

Yeah I did as I could not be bothered, more shocked that anyone would have the audacity to start a thread about a really talentless and forgettable kiddie act like this.

Marky Mark must not be that forgotten since he's a big movie star now and he is sometimes asked by interviewers when is he going to perform his songs again. There's videos of Mark in recent years autographing Funky Bunch records & CDs people bring up to him. Around 2015, NKOTB & 50 Cent tried to get Mark to perform Good Vibrations at a concert but he wouldn't.

He was such a cutie back then. I remember watching this performance repeatedly during early adolescence.

SchlomoThaHomo said:

He was such a cutie back then. I remember watching this performance repeatedly during early adolescence.

The unfortunate thing is that then, and now, he's a raging homophobe.

TrivialPursuit said:

SchlomoThaHomo said:

He was such a cutie back then. I remember watching this performance repeatedly during early adolescence.

The unfortunate thing is that then, and now, he's a raging homophobe.

Yea, in hindsight, that would have been a boner killer for sure. But it's not my fault he couldn't stop taking his clothes off. My 13 year old self had no choice but to objectify him.

"Hector, The Booty Inspector"...LOLWTF?

RIP Loleatta Holloway

The shocking thing is he is a top actor. Talk about white priv.

2freaky4church1 said:

The shocking thing is he is a top actor. Talk about white priv.

So are the Fresh Prince, Ice Cube, Ice T, Queen Latifah, & Method Man, and they aren't white. Ice Cube becoming a mainstream popular actor (including children's movies like Are We There Yet) is more surprising than Marky Mark, considering some of Cube's songs. Fresh Prince is bigger than Mark as an actor.

2freaky4church1 said:

The shocking thing is he is a top actor. Talk about white priv.

he has zero acting range...he is the same guy in every movie...whether its Ted, Daddys Home, or 4 Brothers or Italian Job...

MickyDolenz said:

2freaky4church1 said:

The shocking thing is he is a top actor. Talk about white priv.

So are the Fresh Prince, Ice Cube, Ice T, Queen Latifah, & Method Man, and they aren't white. Ice Cube becoming a mainstream popular actor (including children's movies like Are We There Yet) is more surprising than Marky Mark, considering some of Cube's songs. Fresh Prince is bigger than Mark as an actor.

How Mark Wahlberg Became Hollywood's Highest-Paid Actor

https://www.forbes.com/si...5dd9446509

Good Vibrations is my jam especially working out in the gym. He is a better actor than a rapper. My all-time fav film of Mark's is the classic Pain & Gain (2013).

TrivialPursuit said:

For whatever reason, I was really into the second album, You Gotta Believe back in the day. "Get Up" was a house/club type song that I worked out to a lot. But I somehow acquired the CD, and played it a lot in the mid-90s.

SchlomoThaHomo said:

He was such a cutie back then. I remember watching this performance repeatedly during early adolescence.

I quite like Mr. Wahlberg as an actor. That said, his brief incarnation as 'Marky Mark' was a disgrace, as he'd probably be the first to admit.

Words kinda fail me with regards to this video. I'm mainly impressed by how he's able to run around the basketball court with his pants around his ankles.

Yikes... 'White priviledge' probably is a good way to describe it. That has not aged well.

Mark was a bit of a knob in this period, which is likely what steroids, undeserved celebrity, and #1 hit will do to a young guy. He put out a book in the early '90s and dedicated it (in print) to his dick.

Exactly, he is not Jewish, but Swedish Irish mix and a well known racist. One of his roles he played a skinhead who stomped on a negro's head killing him.

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White trash that should stick to acting in dixie movies, then again rap is for the stupid in society. It was not rap anyway but watered down kiddie pap, he was never hard, just a blowhard. His music sounded like having a bag of sugar tipped down your throat.

Mark recorded a track circa 2005 with his buddy Murder One called Rezervoir Dawgs.