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Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n Denzel Washington raps Nas\u2019 \u201cRepresent\u201d lyrics in a key scene from Spike Lee\u2019s Highest 2 Lowest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n In a new \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live\u201d interview, the actor also revealed the Illmatic rapper is one of his all-time favorites.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Denzel considers Nas a \u201cwordsmith\u201d and has an appreciation for his fellow New Yorker\u2019s storytelling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Denzel Washington<\/a> is so immensely talented that audiences have no idea when he is going off-script. In his new film Highest 2 Lowest, he leans into his love of Hip Hop to deliver a scene alongside A$AP Rocky that is dripping with New York swag, but only some of the dialogue was written in the screenplay by Alan Fox.<\/p>\n The Academy Award winner hails from Mount Vernon, and his love for storytelling dates back to before he ever graced the silver screen. While promoting the new flick on \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live\u201d on Wednesday (Sept. 3), Washington previewed a snippet of a scene with him and Rocky in a studio.<\/p>\n In the scene, Washington sits at a mixing console and delivers a gritty rap<\/a> verse: \u201cI\u2019m the brutalizer, buddha-sizer, accelerator\/ I ain\u2019t the type of n**ga who be pissing in your elevator, but sometimes the rap game reminds me of the crack game\/ I used to sport Bally\u2019s and Cazals with black frames, but now I\u2019m into new chicks, TECs, and Beck\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n The veteran actor portrays David King, a music mogul with the \u201cbest ears in the industry,\u201d and the real-life Harlem emcee plays Young Felon, an aspiring rapper who goes to great lengths to get King\u2019s attention. Washington said to Kimmel and the audience, who reacted to the preview with applause, \u201cFull disclosure, everything I said there, I stole from a rapper named Nas. From a song called \u2018Represent.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n