A$AP Rocky recently made his big screen debut in screen writer/Director Rick Famuyiwa’s movie “Dope” that is a coming of age comedy/drama for the post hip hop generation. The movie follows the main character Malcolm (Shameik Moore) who is a geek, carefully surviving life in The Bottoms, a tough neighborhood in Inglewood, CA filled gangsters and drugs dealers, while juggling his senior year of college applications, interviews and the SAT exams. His dream is to attend Harvard. A chance invitation to a big underground party leads Malcolm and his friends into a, only in Los Angeles, gritty adventure filed with offbeat characters and bad choices. If Malcolm can persevere, he’ll go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself. During the Sundance Film Festival in January, the official trailer for the movie has come out this past week. The much longer trailer, which celebrates A$AP Rocky’s feature film debut, looks rather promising. Rick Famuyiwa was lucky enough to get the support of some film and music heavy weights. Among the long list of supporters of DOPE you find Forest Whitaker (Producer), Pharrell Williams (Executive Producer), and Diddy (Co-Executive Producer). Furthermore Pharrell Williams contributed four new songs to the movie. DOPE is out in theaters this summer on June 19.
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