--- --- # Watch Bryan Cranston and Jessica Biel Get Melodramatic in This Epic Kanye West Musical by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jan 13, 2017 4:40 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jan 13, 2017 4:40 PM UTC Kanye West has written a musical—sort of. West famously [cancelled his appearance](http://time.com/4435018/kanye-west-carpool-karaoke-james-corden/?iid=sr-link2) on James Corden’s [Carpool Karaoke](http://time.com/4415791/michelle-obama-carpool-karaoke-james-corden-late-late-show/?iid=sr-link5) segment, but turns out that the rap mogul doesn’t need to show up in person to join in the fun. On _The Late Late Show_ on Thursday night, Corden debuted “The Bold and the Lyrical,” a musical crafted entirely out of Kanye lyrics with an all-star cast that includes [Bryan Cranston](http://time.com/4529822/bryan-cranston-murder-joke-suspect/?iid=sr-link3), Jessica Biel, Giovanni Ribisi, and Reggie Watts. In the musical, the cast used West’s rap lyrics to spin a melodramatic tale filled with love, loss, pre-nups, and naturally, gold diggers. Biel plays a bride with Cranston, Corden, and Ribisi all vying for her attention, throwing down ciphers and delivering dramatic reinterpretations of West’s lines. The musical is all going swimmingly until Cranston busts out with one of West’s [more controversial lines](http://time.com/4218582/kanye-west-taylor-swift-famous/?iid=sr-link3), where he claimed to [make Taylor Swift famous](http://time.com/4411055/kanye-west-taylor-swift-kim-kardashian-feud/?iid=sr-link1). “Whoa whoa whoa,” said Biel, breaking character. Corden stopped the proceeding to caution Cranston against referencing Swift: “You don’t want to take on that squad, believe me.” Bryan Cranston Sings Kanye in James Corden’s New Musical ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4634390/bryan-cranston-jessica-biel-kanye-west-musical/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4634390/bryan-cranston-jessica-biel-kanye-west-musical/"},"headline":"Watch Bryan Cranston and Jessica Biel Get Melodramatic in This Epic Kanye West Musical","datePublished":"2017-01-13T16:40:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:10.061Z","description":"Bryan Cranston, Jessica Biel, and Giovanni Ribisi turn Kanye lyrics into a soap opera","url":"https://time.com/4634390/bryan-cranston-jessica-biel-kanye-west-musical/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Kanye West","Bryan Cranston","The Late Late Show","james corden"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4634390/bryan-cranston-jessica-biel-kanye-west-musical/","name":"Watch Bryan Cranston and Jessica Biel Get Melodramatic in This Epic Kanye West Musical"}}]}] ```