after much deliberation and a thorough google images search, i’ve concluded that african-american actors mekhi phifer and omar epps are in fact are the same damn person .
really. i wikipedia’d both of them. they both grew up in NYC, raised in single parent households by mothers who were teachers. they’re the same age, born merely months apart. they’ve both been cast in similar roles. still don’t believe me? allow me to elaborate.
they’ve both played hip hop enthusiasts; omar played a young quincy, aka "Q," an up-and-coming dj who somehow got caught up with a reckless tupac and his juice , while you may remember have seeing mekhi alongside mr. mathers in 8 mile , with a set of faux sh!tlocks dreadlocks. 
the same thing goes for the two as
basketball stars (epps in love and basketball , mekhi in O ). even their filming patterns are strikingly similar, as each of them have acted in somewhere between 22 and 25 movies. also have both successfully stepped out of that role and took doctor roles on the hit drama ER. granted, they were on the show at different times (omar in the late ’90’s and phife dawg is on it like right now i think), but you see what i’m saying!? how aren’t these guys the same? i wouldn’t be surprised if they both dated sanaa lathan at some point in time. not saying she’s a roller, but i’m just saying. they’ve managed to co-exist in hollywood, despite their similarities.
i like omar because he has substantially more swag, but i think at this point in the game, mekhi has a steady paycheck coming in. i hate to say this, but omar needs to stop doing those BET blackbuster joints and get back to the silver screen. immediately. join larenz tate, will smith, denzel washington, terrence howard, cuba gooding jr., and morgan freeman as the last successful black actors standing, because they’re getting gorilla zoe type money. well, actually…i don’t know about larenz. that man needs to get his money back up. i haven’t seen him star in a film since dead presidents , and i haven’t seen him since crash . and he or his crew always ends up getting shafted in every movie. i dare you to name one where that doesn’t happen.
but like i said, my main point is that there’s no real difference, and they should be a package, dubbed mekhi epps. or omar phifer. why not get together and make more money, like the dude on the clipse’s "hello new world " was mumbling about. you clipse fans know exactly what i’m talking about! it’s like 3 minutes deep in the track. that OG was so sincere.
and that’s how i’m going. am i alone on this one? let me know.
wiz khalifa - star power. best trunk music. ever.
the native soul - an evolution. it's $ulaiman of blind i. rapping!
christian rich - the decay mixtape [think electrorock meets hip hop and dates it for a bit.]
the paxtons - members only. chi-town/dc-bred dudes. nice rhymes, crazy beats.
evidence - the layover mixtape. this joint is CRAZY.
crucial mix by PFOP's lo. love songs and such!
if coldplay and jay-z made a album, it'd sound like this.
GLC - i ain't even yet: the mixtape. kanye's G.O.O.D. music artist's latest offering.
dandiggity's eclecticuts vol. 2. assortment of eclectic cuts. obviously.
dj klever - flashback. CRUCIAL mix of 80's jams that you've probably never heard before.
g*two - one man army. newest talent out the DMV. he's nice.
Lorenz was in Waist Deep….as a +40 lbs G. He lost his young innocent swag…no he’s chillin…fuckin groupie hoes in the back of random chicken and waffle spots. He did do some movies with a few of the BADDDEST black women
Nia Long
Viv Fox
Halle Berry
Chuch
proof larenz tate is a G and was in and out of halle berry like a drive thru @ on point in his career:
Cam’Ron, Halle Berry And Larenz Tate
In that same issue of Ozone Magazine referenced above Roc-A-Fella rapper Cam’Ron admitted that Larenz Tate was sleeping with Halle Berry back in 1998.
Cam tells Ozone, “Halle Berry? Hell yeah! Actually, I’m gonna tell you such a funny story about Halle Berry, this is some crazy shit. This was back before my first album came out. I don’t think I even had a video out or anything. I was in L.A. on a promo tour, I just had a CD of snippets from Who’s Camron. I was wolfin’, I hadn’t had a haircut for like two months. I had just got finished playing basketball, so I ain’t have no shirt on and I was sweaty.”
“I’m getting out of a fifteen-passenger van to go to the ATM and there’s a lady there, but I ain’t payin’ her no mind. I stick my ATM card in the shit, and Jimmy and all these niggas in the van just start bangin’ on the window so I turn around, like, ‘What?’ They like, ‘Yo, that’s Halle Berry!’. So I look up like, ‘Yo, Halle, let me talk to you for a minute,’ and she’s backin’ away like, ‘No, no, no, I’ve gotta go.’”
“I’m like, chasing her over to the Range Rover. There’s a dude in the car leaning back in the seat. I’m like, ‘Yo, Halle, I rap! I’m about to come out! Just take the CD!’ She rolled down the window like, about this much and took the snippets. She rolled out and we sittin’ there buggin’ out.”
“That was probably in early 1998. Then last year, 2003, I’m at this party in Vegas after a fight. Some boxer had a party, and there’s mad niggas in there, the crazy retarded girl from Scary Movie, everybody from fuckin’ mainstream America was like, ‘Camron, we love you, man!’ So we chillin’ with Tyrese and Larenz Tate and they like, ‘Cam, we fuckin’ love you, B,’ and Larenz pulls me off to the side. He’s like, ‘Yo, I fucks with you, dawg.’ So I’m like, ‘Good lookin’, it’s all good.’ He was like, ‘Remember that day when you slid that CD in Halle’s car? That was me, when I was fuckin’ her, and ain’t nobody know. We was on the low. Yo, Cam, that was me in that passenger seat. That’s how long I been fuckin’ with you, dawg.’”
“I popped bottles with him after that, cause he was keepin’ it too funky! There’s only a few niggas who know that whole story, fam. The first thing I was thinkin’ was, ‘whoever in that passenger seat is pimpin’, yo! He got Halle goin’ to the ATM.’”
Wow, Larenz Tate and Halle Barry. Isn’t she like a foot taller than him? Not that that matters in the broad spectrum of things. Not in the least. Now this was like a really well kept secret and here comes ignorant’s elite, the one and only Cam’Ron Giles to tell the story. Talk about being out of place. As though Halle doesn’t have enough man trouble all by her lonesome, here comes Cam putting her on blast from a long ago and far away relationship with Larenz.
I would imagine that this rendezvous took place around the time they were filming the Frankie Lymon story Why Do Fools Fall in Love and Halle portrayed one of his wives. I’m still just like whoa, Larenz and Halle, who would have ever thought that?
OMG. we are NOT discussing larenz right now. we are on the topic of these two individuals who are really,well, ONE individual LMAO!
I AM LAUGGHINNNG SOOO HARDDD…LOOK AT THE PICS…DO YOU SEE THE POSES? THE GEAR?! LMFAO hahahahahahahahahaha, this had to be some sort of a plan, from the beginning of their careers! This is some product type shit, for example ; EVERYONE KNOWSSS morris chestnut plays the same roles with the same people, and now modi is really pointing this shit out, matter of fact, ON BLAST even, with PICTURES. LMFAO OMG *high fives modi*
Personally.. i believe its somewhat true. but then again has Mehki played a running back like Epps in the movie the program?? Thats prolly the only difference they have. lol. Also this is where the stereotypes of actors come in to play. Like Ray Loita is always the bad guy in the movies. And Luke Wilson cant play anything that is serious.(points out the movie vacancy) These actors will always play the same roles cause thats what they are great at. And they will probably suck at playing anything else. so.. with that said let them play the same characters they always will. plus they get paid good money. We havent really seen Ben Stiller play anything but a scared white guy in every movie. there is something about mary. meet the parents. meet the fockers. may i need to go on?
they are both great actors but I have always said they are the same person and there was so many times i would mix up one for the other.
i love the comments.
and i love larenz.
all 5′2” of him.
shit his dick’s prob 5′2”.
lmao
yoooo dts a pretty weird coincidence but to respond to ur dare…larenz tate in a man apart!
who the fuck watched that!? fans of the battletoads series??? that was a blatant rip off of ninja turtles. still disappointed in that.
you’re wrong about them both being on ER. mekhi is currently on ER, true, but omar is currently on House. which i think is just more proof that they’re basically the same person.
they were both on ER at one point. omar just played two doctors.
so i’m not wrong. just letting everybody know that.
wow. they are the same person. wanna know why? cuz looking at the pix now i realize that i always thought mekhi was omar and omar, mekhi…wow. too funny! good stuff man
Hmmmm…Love this piece! But has Omar been in any scary movies? Mekhi was certainly in that zombie movie with ving rhames acting crazy with his bitten wife and carnivorous baby…
omar was in like i know what u did last summer or scream 2.
noooooooooooo
Omar Epps
and RAHEEM DEVAUGHN are the same person!
Can we add Steelers coach Mike Tomlin into the mix?
http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/resources/2007/01/OmarEppsMikeTomlin.jpg
He’s only a year older than Epps.
omar epps > mehki phifer, respectively.
Juice is epic. . hate the ending, but it’s epic.
im just mad that mekhi has children..IVE BEEN IN LOVE WITH HIM SINCE I WAS LIKE 5 i always imagined that would be me.ONE DAY…lol…. still YOU TEND TO LOSE CRUSHES ON CELEBRITIES after you see they have families and stuff. tho..BUT THEY DO REMIND ME OF EACHOTHER.
Omars movies suck! He always plays the same oppressed black kid with all the talent that gets discriminated against! Spike Lee keeps pumping and re-pumping these roles!