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Actor raps word-for-word Blackalicious' Alphabet Aerobics for Jimmy Fallon.

It seems all those years of muttering incantations as Harry Potter have given Daniel Radcliffe the gift of the rapper's gab.

The Harry Potter star, who is soon to feature in the upcoming film Horns, made a name for himself as of rap connoisseur in a surprise performance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

Talking Fallon through his interest in rap music from a young age, Radcliffe revealed his obsession with learning the words to every song.

Dope Skills: Daniel Radcliffe raps on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show.

"I think I was the first kid in my class to learn the all the words to Real Slim Shady," he said.

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But by owning up to his passion for memorising "complicated, lyrically intricate and fast songs" Radcliffe backed himself into a challenge by Fallon: to rap the 1999 tongue twister from Blackalicious, Alphabet Aerobics.

Despite Fallon's admission that the song was "one of the trickiest, fastest songs" he knew, the former wizard star was more than willing to take the mic.

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Daniel Radcliffe a rapper's delight performing Blackalicious' Alphabet Aerobics