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Howard hopes his passion for music will 'Shine Through It'

PHILADELPHIA -- When Terrence Howard first met with Sony music executives to discuss a recording career, the suits made an assumption.

"They thought I wanted to make a rap album," says the actor.

It was a supposition based on fiction. Howard's signature movie role is his Academy Award-nominated turn in Craig Brewer's 2005 "Hustle & Flow," in which he played Djay, a small-time hustler angling to make it big in hip-hop with songs like "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp," which wound up winning a best-song Oscar for Three 6 Mafia.

But rhyming about the trials and tribulations of petty criminals in "Shine Through It," which comes out Sept. 2, was the farthest thing from the mind of the 39-year-old ...

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