It’s an oddly catchy sound, a persistent noise coming from boomboxes and car stereos. Almost no one in “Cut Throat City,” the latest crime/gangster flick from legendary hip hop producer/turned filmmaker RZA, comments on it, but we know they hear it and we know what it symbolizes. It’s the sound of rap music on repeat, lingering in the air like a thick, inescapable haze of gun smoke.

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RZA helped revolutionize this sound in Staten Island, New York, where he co-founded and performed with the group “Wu-Tang Clan” and changed rap forever.

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Ethan Hawke is set to appear in the highly-anticipated heist thriller “Cut Throat City.”

The film, directed by Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA, centers around four childhood friends who return to New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina. They find their homes destroyed and prospects for work swept away. They turn to a local gangster for employment, and the crew is hired to pull off a daring casino heist right in the heart of the city.

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RZA, leader of the legendary rap group Wu-Tang Clan, is jumping back into the movie game with his newest endeavor: “Cut Throat City” a heist film set in the lower ninth ward of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.  RZA, Shameik Moore (who is providing the voice for Miles Morales in the animated film”Spider–Man: Into the Spider-Verse“), Wesley Snipes, Demetrius Shipp Jr.

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