Metal Lungies

The summer’s about to get hot on the movie front, with Transformers and Live Free or Die Hard amongst the most anticipated, but it’s never too early to look ahead to the end of the year. Due out in November, Denzel Washington will star in American Gangster, portraying Frank Lucas, a ’70s N.Y. drug kingpin who, according to his Wikipedia page (and Wikipedia don’t lie), masterminded a scheme in which “coffins of dead American servicemen being returned from Vietnam also include a dozen or so kilos of 98% pure heroin.” Can’t say I’ve ever heard some shit like that in a rap song. Russell Crowe also stars as the detective in pursuit of Lucas, and Ridley Scott is directing the film (the two of them having previously worked together on Gladiator).

Check out the trailer here, and you’ll spot a couple of rappers’/actors’ familiar faces, each of whom have a highly-anticipated album set to be released this year. I don’t expect either album to flop, but in case they do, at least both of these guys will have another career to fall back on.