Cuba Gooding Jr. Gets Rapping Role

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Casting is underway for a biopic about the New York hip hop group, the Juice Crew. Cuba Gooding Jr. will star as the Crew's leader, Marley Marl, with rapper David Banner cast as rapper Biz Markie.

Keke Palmer, of Akeelah and the Bee, has been cast to play the role of Marl's protégé Roxanne Shante, while Idlewild's Jackie Long will fill the role of Big Daddy Kane.