A$AP Rocky co-stars in Spike Lee’s ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ — and can be dropping new music on the soundtrack
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A$AP Rocky‘s long-awaited comeback album, Don’t Be Dumb, remains to be nowhere in sight, however he does have two new songs in Spike Lee‘s new film, Highest 2 Lowest, which additionally options A$AP in a number one function. “Trunks” and “Each Eyes Closed” will each seem on the movie’s soundtrack album, due Aug. 15, the identical day the film hits theaters.
The thriller, which reinterprets Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 kidnapping drama Excessive and Low, is about within the music enterprise, with Washington taking part in a legendary label exec. A$AP, in the meantime, performs an aspiring rapper turned kidnapper. “Yeah, don’t sleep on A$AP,” Lee lately told Jimmy Fallon throughout a Tonight Present look. “On this movie, Denzel and A$AP go toe-to-toe… I’ve completed 5 movies with Denzel, and a whole lot of occasions when he’s in a scene with someone, they only get overwhelmed. He’s one of many best residing actors right this moment, however A$AP wasn’t having that. I imply, they had been going at it.”
Highest 2 Lowest is Lee’s fifth collaboration with Washington, and the director expects it to be the final. “It’s been a blessing to have this physique of labor of us doing movies that the individuals love,” he stated at a Cannes press convention. “I believe that is it — 5.”
The soundtrack additionally consists of music from singer Aiyana-Lee (who makes her performing debut within the film after Lee (no relation) found her on Instagram), a music from singer/songwriter Jensen McRae, and a number of tracks from the Fergus McCreadle Trio, a jazz band led by Scottish pianist McCreadle, additionally found by Lee on social media.
In the meantime, A$AP is continuous his performing profession in one other upcoming film, October’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, which additionally stars Conan O’Brien and Rose Byrne. The trailer to that film is out now.
From Rolling Stone US.