Is this the worst idea ever?

Elton John plans hip-hop album.

Usually when an aging white pop musician wants to change things up by switching genres, they jump over to classical music (see: Billy Joel, Paul McCartney). I guess we can give ol' Reggie credit for at least thinking outside the box to some degree, but it's hard to foresee this theoretical album being anything but a complete disaster.

You know how the last couple Santana albums have featured a thousand guest performers, who all do their own thing while Carlos plays his same three guitar licks on top of whatever is going on? Think about a hip hop version of that, except instead of guitar licks, think of Elton John cramming his ornate melodies into Dr. Dre's G-funk.

Weird, right?