• The pair will star in Spike Lee’s new film Highest 2 Lowest
  • Denzel surprised A$AP Rocky with his taste in rappers
  • Lee says Rocky has ‘main role’ in the new film
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A$AP Rocky has already been part of one pretty major reveal this week, as Rihanna revealed she is pregnant with the couple’s third child. But on top of that, the Grammy nominated rapper has been revealing some of Denzel Washington’s tastes in rap music and they are unexpected.

Rocky – who will co-star with the two-time Academy Award winning icon in upcoming Spike Lee film Highest 2 Lowest – appeared on The Run-Through with VogueĀ podcast recently to share the Training Day star’s preference for modern Memphis rap.

A$AP Rocky Reveals Denzel’s Love For Memphis Rap

“Denzel would pull up to the movie set playing Pooh Shiesty and Moneybagg Yo, swear to God,” A$AP revealed. “Can’t make this up.

“He likes to listen to Memphis rappers, but modern Memphis rappers,” the Harlem native continued. “Then he started quoting NLE Choppa. I’m like, ‘You know NLE Choppa?!’ He like, ‘I don’t do drive-bys now, walk ’em down.’ I’m like, ‘Yo, Denzel, chill!’ It was crazy, he’s really tapped in, man.”

Rocky and Washington will star alongside each other in the upcoming Spike Lee neo-noir crime thriller Highest 2 Lowest, which will hit theatres in August. Both men appear in the teaser trailer that was dropped this week.

Spike Lee And Denzel Reunite

The upcoming A24 flick is an English-language reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 film High and Low. High and Low is itself a loose adaptation of the 1959 novel King’s Ransom by Evan Hunter.

Lee’s film will see Washington star as David King and Rocky appear as a character by the name of Yung Felony. Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Jeffrey Wright will also star as part of the supporting cast, alongside The Wire’s Wendell Pierce and, in her Hollywood debut, Ice Spice.

Kurosawa’s 1963 adaptation was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film at the 1964 awards and is held in the same esteem as his other masterworks such as 1950’s Rashomon and 1954’s Seven Samurai. It is Lee and Washington’s first collaboration since 2006’s Inside Man.

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