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Denzel Washington and A$AP Rocky attend ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ purple carpet at 78th annual Cannes Film Festival

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Key Takeaways:

• A$AP Rocky performs Yung Felon, a Harlem rapper who kidnaps the son of Denzel Washington’s character, in Spike Lee’s new movie ‘Highest 2 Lowest.’
• The movie reimagines Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 thriller ‘High and Low’ via a contemporary Hip Hop lens.
• The Apple TV+ and A24 undertaking drops on Aug. 15 and options new music from A$AP Rocky, plus appearances from Ice Spice and Jeffrey Wright.

A$AP Rocky is unleashing chaos within the first official trailer for Highest 2 Lowest. Released on Monday (Aug. 4), the teaser gave followers a glimpse of what to anticipate from the Spike Lee-directed movie, which is about to drop on Aug. 15.

In the clip, Denzel Washington portrays a music mogul whose son has been kidnapped for ransom. “I got your full attention now, huh? You [are] finally listening to me,” A$AP Rocky’s character, Yung Felon, says ominously. Moments later, we study his calls for: “$17.5 million in the all-black Jordan backpack.”

“Try me if you think I’m playing,” the Harlem rapper warns, to which Washington replies, “I ain’t got —” earlier than the decision abruptly disconnects. In one other scene, the Academy Award-winning actor’s character desperately makes an attempt to barter for his son’s launch.

“It’s too late for all that,” Yung Felon insists. “You not God no more, n**ga, I am.” Elsewhere within the trailer, he provides, “I gotta feed the streets, my lady and a newborn kid, and I ain’t trying to go back and do another bid, you dig?” Take a take a look at the clip beneath.

Highest 2 Lowest will arrive with new music from A$AP Rocky, a few of which we hear within the precise trailer. “Shout-outs to my felons, boy, we caught another felony,” he raps at one level. “Don’t try to run, we gon’ hit ‘em where he at.” Also starring within the film are Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera and Ice Spice.

The Apple TV+ and A24 providing is a modern-day reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 movie High and Low. The authentic crime thriller adopted a shoe govt who turns into the goal of a kidnapping scheme after his chauffeur’s son is kidnapped by mistake. Lee’s take brings the stakes into the world of Hip Hop, which ought to be an actual deal with for music followers.