Image from A$AP Rocky's Instagram. It's been a big few weeks for A$AP Rocky, who was just last month announced as the new Creative Director at MTV Labs, before releasing "Love$ick," his latest track, a collaboration with British producer Mura Masa.Rocky will also—somehow—have time to star in the upcoming film adaptation of Walter Dean Myers' book Monster, about an honour student who is charged with a murder he didn't commit. The Harlem native willjoin Nas, Jennifer Hudson, and 2016's Roots' Kelvin Harrison Jr. in cast of the film.Director Anthony Mandler, whose huge career as a videographer began in 2000 and has included the likes of Beyonce's "Irreplaceable," Rihanna's "Disturbia," and Lana Del Ray's "National Anthem," will make his feature-length debut with the film.The film begins principal photography this week in New York.