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Azealia Banks is Coco

Hip-hop artist Azealia Banks is set to make her feature film debut, landing the starring titular role in “Coco”.

RZA is helming the pic with Common, Jill Scott, Lucien Laviscount, Lorraine Toussaint and Hana Mae Lee co-starring,

Nicole Asher wrote the script about an aspiring twentysomething rapper who wants a career in hip-hop but is torn by her parents’ dreams that she finish college.

Paul Hall is producing.

The news comes via Deadline.

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