The press tour for Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest is in full swing; most lately, the director and movie star, A$AP Rocky, stopped by the Track Star music present. When requested in regards to the analysis he put into the position, Rocky stated that he was already well-equipped as a result of he’d been an avid fan of the director in his youth.

According to the rapper, he “grew up” on Spike Lee. “I didn’t have to do research,” the rapper-actor stated. Shortly after that, the rapper proceeded to share just a few of his favourite movies from the Brooklyn native. With over 4 many years of labor to choose from, you suppose the “Praise The Lord” rapper may need hassle deciding; nonetheless, for Rocky, it was easy.

“It’s between Mo’ Better Blues, Malcom X, He Got Game, Inside Man, [and] Crooklyn...” The rapper additionally acknowledged how a lot Red Hook Summer taught him to “use different mediums at a time when everyone wanted these big movie production cameras…” Lee had shot the 2012 movie with a small digital digicam.

Spike Lee and A$AP Rocky have turn into fairly chummy over the previous few months because the rollout for Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest continues.

During a latest look on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Lee lauded Rocky’s performance within the movie. “Yeah, don’t sleep on A$AP,” Lee stated. “In this film, Denzel and A$AP go toe to toe.”

“What’s interesting is, even before I got involved with this film, I always thought that A$AP looked like he could be Denzel’s son. There’s a big resemblance. So when you see it on the screen, it adds an element of father and son. Don’t sleep on A$AP. Don’t sleep on A$AP,” he added.

Lee additionally stated that Rocky was not overwhelmed by Washington’s aura like he had seen with different actors. “I’ve done five films with Denzel, and when he’s in a scene with somebody, they just get overwhelmed. He’s one of the world’s greatest living actors. But A$AP wasn’t having that,” Lee defined. “Toe to toe. I mean, they were going at it.”