That said, the actor agrees that it was ultimately an "important move" for the show's writers to make. After 20 years, Idris Elba has come around on the death of his The Wire character Stringer Bell.

Watch Stringer Bell from The Wire (AKA Idris Elba) be a rapper in the video below. The track is called “Hold On” and Stringer raps/sings with a heavy patois and wears a do rag. He looks kind of like ...