{"id":89692,"date":"2025-08-22T21:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T21:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/89692\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T21:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T21:54:07","slug":"aap-rocky-reveals-the-life-changing-advice-denzel-washington-gave-him-ten-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/89692\/","title":{"rendered":"A$AP Rocky Reveals The Life-Changing Advice Denzel Washington Gave Him Ten Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denzel Washington, Spike Lee and A$AP Rocky have been hitting the media circuit pretty hard in support of the just-released Highest 2 Lowest<\/a>, but their chemistry, and the genuine love they have for each other, has arguably never been more evident than when they sat down for a chat amongst themselves for GQ\u2019s Epic Conversation.<\/p>\n

Denzel<\/a> sets the tone, taking the no-fucks-given mode he\u2019s been in as of late and dialling it all the way up\u2014at one point while Spike and Rocky<\/a> are talking, Denzel takes note of Rocky\u2019s Rolex and strips it clean off of his wrist to slide it on his own arm like nothing happened. The guys also take a beat to talk about contemporary rap, with Rocky strongly urging Denzel<\/a> to add JID\u2019s new album God Does Like Ugly to his queue.<\/p>\n

But we also get some great rare anecdotes out of their convo, ranging from classic set stories to personal memories. After Spike recounts Rocky\u2019s reaction on set when Denzel went off-script and started literally freestyling bars during a scene, the He Got Game collaborators begin reminiscing about a similar moment in which Denzel\u2019s competitive nature jumped out on that film, when Denzel started raining buckets on Ray Allen even though the scene as scripted called for Ray to win. And later, the man born Rakim Athelaston Mayers\u2014what, you thought his parents named him “A$AP Rocky”?\u2014sheepishly reveals his unique middle name for the first time on camera, much to Denzel\u2019s delight.<\/p>\n

But the absolute best story comes at the end, in another reveal Rocky swears he’s never shared on camera. It starts with one of his earlier film experiences\u2014a supporting-actor turn in the Netflix movie Monster, which Spike\u2019s wife Tonya produced. Rocky had become tight with one of his co-stars, John David Washington<\/a>\u2014who as you may be aware is Denzel’s son. Shortly after filming, Christmastime rolled around; Rocky divulges that he\u2019s usually depressed around the holiday, which happens to be the anniversary of his father’s passing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denzel Washington, Spike Lee and A$AP Rocky have been hitting the media circuit pretty hard in support of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[53010,49,48,569,46062,75,337,341,44486,1778,343],"class_list":{"0":"post-89692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-aap-rocky","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-culture","12":"tag-denzel-washington","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-music","16":"tag-spike-lee","17":"tag-textbelowcenterfullbleed","18":"tag-web"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}