Brooklyn Vegan — Earlier this year rappers RZA (who is starring in a porn star biopic) and Azealia Banks (who is naked in a recent issue of Playboy) both appeared in a BrooklynVegan post about pornography. Together again, now we find out... more info

Time — The movie will be directed by RZA more info

Stereogum — Add “actress” to Azealia Banks’ résumé of rapper, singer, and professional shit-talker. The Hollywood Reporter says that Banks has been tapped to star in It Doesn’t Have To Rhyme, which they describe as being “similar in tone to 8 Mile.�... more info

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L.A. Times - Entertainment — It's long been known that Wu-Tang Clan principal architect RZA has a love of kung fu films and the work of John Woo. It's right there in the group's name and its musical samples, not to mention RZA's own directorial debut, "The Man with the Iron Fist... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Coolio's PornHub collaboration is so last year. This week, the worlds of music and porn can't stop finding new ways to collide: Wu-Tang Clan member, and no stranger to acting, RZA will be appearing in the upcoming biopic on... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: Mos Def at Rock the Bells 2011 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) The Eric Garner protests, like last weekend's Millions March, in NYC continue, and recently a number of musicians have spoke about the issue too. Mos Def... more info

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L.A. Times - Entertainment — As her new film "Selma" begins to surge in the year-end awards race on its way to a Christmas Day opening, filmmaker Ava DuVernay was announced today as keynote speaker for the upcoming South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival. The festival ru... more info

Stereogum — The problem with the new Wu-Tang Clan album A Better Tomorrow is that it’s not the last Wu-Tang Clan album. The last time the whole group came together, it was on 2008′s 8 Diagrams, a messy psychedelic boom-bap splooge that fully indulged RZA’s... more info