Thanks to a new interview from Spike Lee and newly resurfaced photos, many online are thinking Washington and Rocky might need to take a DNA test!

While you may know of some common celebrity twins and lookalikes, there’s a pair of new faces that people online are starting to see a resemblance between: rapper A$AP Rocky and legendary actor Denzel Washington.

As we previously told you, the two are currently starring in the new Spike Lee-directed film “Highest 2 Lowest,” which is out in select theaters now. But while the two portray enemies in the film, in real life — and particularly in interviews promoting the movie — they’re chummy like old friends.

Their proximity is also enough to make the aforementioned Lee and Rocky himself express a sentiment that’s been rising on social media within the past several weeks: the rapper and Washington look so much alike, they could be father and son.

“My whole life, my mother gassed me and told me I looked like this man. You get what I’m saying?” Rocky said during an interview with the two cinema legends for GQ.

“If you had a penny for any time it was said you looked like Denzel?” Lee interjected.

“I’d be a trillionaire, like for real” Rocky replied with a laugh.

“D, it’s true, I’m telling you!” Lee said.

Washington then joked to the camera: “So mom, should we tell him?”

In a separate interview with Complex, Lee kept on with the notion that the two resembled each other, explaining: “For five years, people been saying A$AP Rocky resembles Denzel…they’re scared to [say that to Washington’s face.]

Now, as the promo for “Highest 2 Lowest” continues before it hits Apple TV+ on Sept. 5, others online are starting to agree that there might need to be a DNA test done between the two stars.

 
A young Denzel Washington in “A Soldier’s Story’” in 1984; A$AP Rocky in February 2025. Credit: Screenshot- YouTube/Kinobscure; Allison Dinner – Pool/Getty Images
“Childhood photos of Denzel Washington and A$AP Rocky. Bro I can’t spot the difference!” wrote one user on X/Twitter.

“It’s so funny seeing Denzel & Rocky together cause it’s almost like a window into the past AND future. Rocky giving old school street Denzel & Denzel giving older Rocky,” said another.

“The fact that young ASAP rocky in fact looked like a younger Denzel Washington is funny asf lol,” one other user wrote.

But, there were some who don’t really see what others see and felt like the push for Rocky and Washington to be lookalikes was doing too much!

“JOHN. DAVID. WASHINGTON doesn’t even look like Denzel. But Asap Rocky wants me to believe HE looks like Denzel?? Don’t piss me off,” another user penned.

One other person expressed: “Now all of sudden Asap Rocky and Denzel Washington resemble. Please stop doing drugs yall.”

Added another, “Ummm ASAP Rocky looks NOTHING like Denzel. Whoever told him that (his mom) was lying their azz off.”

What do you think? Are they long-lost relatives or is it bunch of BS?