The upcoming hip-hop musical film will focus on an aspiring rapper Coco and mark Azealia Banks' first starring role on big screen.
- May 28, 2015
AceShowbiz -
Azealia Banks and Common team up in a Brooklyn-set feature film. It is expected to mark her first starring role in a movie. RZA sits behind the lens after previously making his directorial debut in 2012 with "The Man with the Iron Fists" starring Russell Crowe.
Banks plays Coco, an aspiring twenty-something rapper who wants a career in hip-hop but is torn by her parents' dreams that she finish college. In a poetry class, she experiences the true calling of the power of the spoken word, which helps her goals as a hip-hop artist.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the movie is titled "It Doesn't Have to Rhyme". Common will play a mentor figure, Lorraine Toussaint is cast as Coco's mother, and Jill Scott will portray a professor who believes that rapping and slam poetry cannot co-exist.
The movie described as having an 8 Mile tone to it is scheduled to begin production next month. Paul Hall serves as a producer and Nicole Asher writes the script.
