Idris Elba gets into festive spirit by rapping on Noel Fielding and Serge Pizzorno's Christmas single

The Luther actor rapped about wanting an Xbox over boxers and socks
Festive feeling: Idris Elba has lent his voice to a Christmas song
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Emma Powell9 December 2015
The Weekender

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Idris Elba has proved he can act and DJ – and now he’s proved his talent for rapping too.

The actor, 43, has teamed up with Loose Tapestries duo Noel Fielding and Serge Pizzorno of Kasabian to record a Christmas single.

Elba lent his vocals to a solo at the end of the festive jingle, titled Can’t Wait For Christmas.

The long discussed single sees him rap about wanting an Xbox for Christmas instead of "the boxers and pairs of socks" he received last year.

Lyrics also include: "Thank you for the joystick, thank you for socks, thank you for the Rolex, thank you for the yacht, but the stationery, it be going in the dustbin."

Speaking to NME about Elba's involvment, Pizzorno said: “We’ve got Idris Elba rapping on a Christmas song. He was doing the Mandela film at the time and we were laughing, saying, ‘Imagine doing that and then coming down and dropping a Christmas rap on a medieval psych-prog record’.”

The Luther actor recently teamed up with Madonna to DJ on the London leg of her Rebel Heart Tour.

Speaking about supporting the Queen of Pop, he told Closer: "I had a great time. I'm also a DJ and she needed a great one, so what can I say? I got the email asking me if I'd like to do it and I was like, 'Absolutely'. I met a beautiful person who has been working forever and ever and is still going.

''I was standing by the curtain before I went on and I made the mistake of peeking out - to see 17,000 people looking back at me. I just played music, but it was such a buzz."

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