Azealia Banks

Azealia Banks, the provocative hip-hop artist who made her debut last year with the album Broke With Expensive Taste, has just landed her first starring role in a feature film. She’ll play the title character in Coco, a drama for Lionsgate and Codeblack Films that will be directed by Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA. She stars with Common, Jill Scott, Lucien Laviscount, Lorraine Toussaint and Hana Mae Lee. It has a script from Nicole Jefferson Asher and will be produced by Paul Hall. Pic is about to get underway.

Rising rapper Azealia Banks posted the complete tracklist and list of guest features for her long in-the-works debut Broke With Expensive Taste to Ins.

Sometimes all it takes is one song. For Azealia Banks, that was “212,” a raucous rap over a tom-drum driven beat which began infecting clubs and headphones ...