Pete Doherty (Photo: Live4ever Media / Joanne Ostrowski)
Pete Doherty is planning on reinventing himself as the UK’s answer to Eminem, if those reliable chaps at The Sun newspaper are to be believed.
A report in a weekend edition of the paper has claimed the occasional Libertine is working on a hip-hop album which will ‘shock’ fans when it is unveiled at an upcoming gig.
The paper quotes a friend of Doherty’s as saying: “He has actually said he wants to be Britain’s answer to Eminem. He has told us he’s started writing hip-hop songs.”
After a series of successful reunion shows with The Libertines back in the summer of 2010, hopes were raised of a full scale return for Doherty, Carl Barat and co after it appeared his well known troubles with drug addiction were beginning to be brought under control. However, no further plans have materialised subsequently, and it seems the four bandmates are now pursuing their own solo projects permanently once more.
For anyone questioning Doherty’s new found commitment to the hip hop world, the tabloid also reports that the songwriter has ‘even bought two adidas tracksuits to look like the US rapper’. Now that’s dedication.
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