Tuesday, January 27, 2015
A$AP Rocky's Film Picked up at Sundance
Pushing Dope, an independent coming of age story featuring Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky, gets picked up at this years Sundance Film Festival…
A$AP Rocky makes his acting debut in Pushing Dope about a group of nerdy kids from Inglewood, California who accidentally end up with a stash of ecstasy belonging to local drug dealer Dom [A$AP Rocky] and their adventures trying to sell the dope to bail Dom out of jail.
After screening at Sundance Pushing Dope was the object of a fierce bidding war and ended up with Open Road Films who bought it for $7 million after pledging a $15 million promotional budget.
The film also features Zoe Kravitz and A$AP's ex-girlfriend model Chanel Iman.