{"id":73338,"date":"2025-05-07T01:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T05:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=73338"},"modified":"2025-05-31T01:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T05:58:08","slug":"aap-rocky-plots-his-gig-with-rihanna-amid-preparing-for-a-third-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/aap-rocky-plots-his-gig-with-rihanna-amid-preparing-for-a-third-baby\/73338\/","title":{"rendered":"A$AP Rocky plots his gig with Rihanna amid preparing for a third baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"60\" data-end=\"361\">A$AP Rocky is gearing up for his Cannes film debut with <em data-start=\"116\" data-end=\"134\">Highest 2 Lowest<\/em>, directed by the legendary Spike Lee. But while he\u2019s promoting this major milestone, the rapper-turned-actor already has his sights set on an exciting future project\u2014collaborating on-screen with his long-time partner, Rihanna.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"363\" data-end=\"657\">The film, a remake of Akira Kurosawa\u2019s classic <em data-start=\"410\" data-end=\"424\">High and Low<\/em> starring Denzel Washington, marks a significant step in Rocky\u2019s evolving career. In a recent interview with <em data-start=\"533\" data-end=\"542\">Variety<\/em>, Rocky opened up about his creative journey, fatherhood, and his dreams of acting alongside the <em data-start=\"639\" data-end=\"649\">Diamonds<\/em> singer.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"659\" data-end=\"942\">Though Rihanna has previously appeared in his music videos for \u201cD.M.B.\u201d and \u201cFashion Killa,\u201d Rocky is eager to take their collaboration to the next level with official acting credits. When asked about starring alongside her in a movie, his response was an enthusiastic, \u201cHell, yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"944\" data-end=\"1117\">He praised Rihanna\u2019s on-screen presence, noting, \u201cYou saw her acting in my film [the 2022 music video] <em data-start=\"1047\" data-end=\"1055\">D.M.B.<\/em> You saw her acting in [my 2013 music video] <em data-start=\"1100\" data-end=\"1116\">Fashion Killa.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1119\" data-end=\"1484\">Rihanna herself is busy with upcoming projects, including lending her voice to the new <em data-start=\"1206\" data-end=\"1214\">Smurfs<\/em> movie. Rocky called that \u201cgangster,\u201d and marveled at how both their big-screen projects are launching in the same year. \u201cYo, this shit is jokes though. We both got movies coming out the same year. I didn\u2019t even realize that. Wow! Shout-outs to us \u2014 we\u2019ve been working!\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1486\" data-end=\"1661\">Fans can catch A$AP Rocky alongside Denzel Washington in Spike Lee\u2019s <em data-start=\"1555\" data-end=\"1573\">Highest 2 Lowest<\/em>, hitting limited theaters on August 22 and streaming exclusively on Apple TV+ from A24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A$AP Rocky is gearing up for his Cannes film debut with Highest 2 Lowest, directed by the legendary Spike Lee\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":73339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[3168],"class_list":["post-73338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-aap-rocky"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}