"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 ...

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 ...

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What you do on top of a beat is everything in hip-hop. Movies have their regular rhythms too, but there’s not much added to the static thump of cliché in “Love Beats Rhymes” to give this tale of a ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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, ...