RZA Directing Common, Azealia Banks in New Rap Film 'Coco'

**CashRules** · 05-28-2015, 04:23 AM

Wu-Tang Clan mastermind RZA and rapper Azealia Banks are teaming for the upcoming musical drama Coco. RZA will direct the Lionsgate/Codeblack Films feature, which stars Banks as a "twentysomething female rapper named Coco." The Brooklyn-set film – which co-stars Common, Jill Scott and Lorraine Toussaint – has already begun shooting in New York.

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In the film, Banks' protagonist dreams of pursuing a hip-hop career, but is persuaded by her parents to finish college. In a poetry class, she is transfixed by "the power of the spoken word," developing a verbal strength that ends up propelling her toward her rap goals.

"I'm extremely excited and vigorously inspired to be working with Azealia Banks in my new directorial installment," RZA said in a statement. "Producer Paul Hall and I have assembled a cool and eclectic cast to surround Azealia. Our story, which is set in today's contemporary youth culture, will bring a new voice to cinema that needs to be heard."

The Hollywood Reporter notes that Scott will play a "a professor who believes that rapping and slam poetry cannot co-exist;" Toussaint will reportedly play Coco's mother, and Common will appear as a "mentor figure."

**ShaDynasty** · 05-28-2015, 07:15 AM

RZA looks like a victim of domestic abuse in that photo. There should be a phone number underneath where you can give donations to rappers who have been socked in the eye by their wives.

**CharlesJones** · 05-30-2015, 01:17 PM

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