Pop star Azealia Banks enters the ring in the rap battle romance “Love Beats Rhymes” veiled in black with a microphone, a dead rose and a coffin. Her character Coco Ford, a struggling New York singer, ...

“All I ever wanted is to be a rapper,” Azealia Banks‘ character Coco says in the new trailer for the RZA-directed Love Beats Rhymes. “I want people to fall in love with my words.” Originally titled ...

There's been a long proclaimed idea that rap is an acronym for rhythm and poetry. Although it isn't technically true, the idea forever bridged the two as connected entities. But while hip-hop has gone ...

Ah, the holdover EP. While Blood Brothers hole up in the studio, recording the follow-up to 2004's Crimes with Fugazi's Guy Picciotto, they offer the Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck EP to tide ...

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RZA is the visionary behind the Wu Tang Clan, but in the past decade or so, he’s spread his talents to Tinseltown. Gradually RZA-recta went from scoring movies and TV shows like Afro Samurai to acting ...

It was announced in 2015 that RZA and Azealia Banks would be teaming up for a new film, Love Beats Rhymes. Now, the trailer for the movie has dropped. Banks plays Coco in the upcoming film, which ...

"I need more than potential to sell records." Lionsgate has released the first official trailer for the new film directed by RZA titled Love Beats Rhymes, a musical drama about a struggling rapper who ...

My son’s bedtime ritual is one of my favorite times of day. It’s a special time for our family, full of reading, cuddles and lullabies. Last week, I selected one of my son’s nursery rhyme books for ...

Azealia Banks plays an aspiring rapper in 'Love Beats Rhymes,' a romantic drama directed by Wu-Tang Clan co-founder RZA. By Frank Scheck Wu-Tang Clan co-founder RZA makes a sharp stylistic departure ...