Rapper Azealia Banks has landed her first starring role in an upcoming feature film, titled "Coco".
Banks will play the titular character in the film, a drama for Lionsgate and Codeblack Films that will be directed by Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, an American music producer, reported Deadline.
Banks, 23, stars with Oscar-winning composer Common, Jill Scott, Lucien Laviscount, Lorraine Toussaint and Hana Mae Lee.
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It has a script from Nicole Jefferson Asher and will be produced by Paul Hall. Pic is about to get underway.
In the Brooklyn-set drama, Banks plays an aspiring 20-something rapper who wants a career in hip-hop but is torn by her parents' dreams that she finish college. She gives in.
While matriculating, she finds herself in the classroom; she experiences the true calling of the power of the spoken word, which helps her goals as a hip-hop artist. It has a bit of 8 Mile edge to it.
