A$AP ROCKY's top 25 albums

http://www.complex.com/music/2012/01/asap-rockys-25-favorite-albums

a disappointingly uninteresting top 25 albums from A$AP. his reasons for liking most of the albums are so uninspiring.. most of them are because he likes a few songs on them. i would have thought he would have a lot more to say.

"Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stadium Arcadium (2006)
A$AP Rocky: "That had 'Dani California' on it. I liked it because it was rock and it was something different for me.""

he said in that GQ interview that john lennon and jimi hendrix were his favourite artists, but this is all he could say about the jimi hendrix album he chose:

"I like Jimi Hendrix. I know that sounds cliché. I like 'All Along The Watchtower,' 'Hey Joe,' 'Purple Haze,' 'Voodoo Child,' everything. That nigga's the shit."

he didnt even mention a beatles or a john lennon album. he's probably never even really listened to the beatles...

FINALLY.. any of you guys seen that video with ASAP rocky and danny brown interviewing eachother by the pool? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qMAzn4s1_g)
rocky has literally nothing to say about anything, not even his own music. danny brown starts raving about jimmi hendrix towards the end and rocky, unsuprisingly, has nothing to say. he hadn't even listened to the album he was talking about. so much for him being his favourite artist??

OK i love rocky.. man, i saw him the other week (although, half of his songs he rapped over the full vocal studio recording). but it really disappoints me that he has absolutely nothing to say, and that hes fronting on his music preferences- it shows there is no depth to the man whatsoever. perhaps i was just expecting too much... sometimes the reality of an artists you like is a bitch ha.. anyone have any thoughts on this?

you gonna make this a poll because im not clicking through thuis

cant believe disappointing, uninteresting, uninspiring rapper A$AP Rocky has a disappointing, uninteresting, uninspiring list of favorite records

i heard the list seems cooler if you read it really slowly

the list isnt that bad, mostly just notable millenial gangsta rap

also i doubt he spent much of his life listening to full length albums given his age/generation's listening habits

great thread

if he didnt spend much time listening to full length albums then he shouldn't put out a top 25 albums like he's some eclectic mother fucker. it just makes him look really ignorant, and like they are the only 25 albums he's ever listened to

also.... trust ASAP rocky to fall for lana del rey's 'arty girl' facade... they deserve eachother

classic thread

Tsk, when will people stop falling for that FAKER Lana Del Rey?

i like LiveLoveA$AP and this quote: "Purple Haze was just Cam showing off and letting his nuts hang, no homo."

not really sure what you were expecting, though

danny brown starts raving about jimmi hendrix towards the end and rocky, unsuprisingly, has nothing to say. he hadn't even listened to the album he was talking about. so much for him being his favourite artist??

All I heard was Danny Brown saying that Hendrix jacked Arthur Lee from Love's style, and A$AP saying he'd never heard of Lee.

Coldplay, A Rush Of Blood To The Head (2002)
Label: Capitol
A$AP Rocky: "'The Scientist' was the shit, man. 'Nobody said it was easy,' that shit was too trill. Personally, sometimes you want some different shit, and that's what appealed to me. I can't describe it or explain it. That shit just really appealed to a nigga."

haha

N.E.R.D, Seeing Sounds (2008)

Label: Star Trak/Interscope
A$AP Rocky: "Fucking epic."

Village Voice: A lot of rappers claim to be down with rock and roll; it's become kind of a thing to be a rapper and do an interview and say something like "I'm down with Coldplay, I love Coldplay" to flash some sort of open-minded bona fides.

Danny Brown: People really do that? That's corny.

<3 danny brown

a disappointingly uninteresting top 25 albums from A$AP.
he didnt even mention a beatles or a john lennon album. he's probably never even really listened to the beatles...

O_o

I find it endearing that the first choice to show you're "down with rock'n'roll" is Coldplay.

that's the equivalent of "i like rap. i listen to jay-z."

I forgive Jay-Z and Kanye for collaborating because they refer to Chris Martin as "Coldplay"

my favorite rapper is NWA

he's pretty awesome

good thread

i agree and thanks for your contribution, don't think it's gone unnoticed

and, while i can't talk specifics, when the ILX regional manager position opens up in a few months, your name has come up some of our discussions

A$AP Rockist

I promise to post good thread only in good threads

is there a rapper w/ the name w/ the words "bull" or "winkle" in it

A$AP Rocky and Pitbull(winkle)

nobodys posted about this yet huh

http://www.complex.com/music/2012/11/spaceghostpurrp-arrested-after-raider-klanaap-mob-confrontation

i know nobody on here likes sgp, but at the very least this confirms my suspicions that asap is super wack. must have been an awk tour bus escape ride all together

yougivesashit

well i mean people got riled up over waka's tour bus being shot at, and the drake/chris brown altercation. this fight seems like it's the most WWE of all those clashes

ASAP has been absolutely terrible on everything since his first mixtape IMO .... has to be the stupidest 3 million sony has ever spent.. . rocky is too stupid to be an artist, too real to be a major label puppet.....

meanwhile....
"“I want to say it’s looking like top of the year, first quarter because it makes no sense to put out a album in December,” Rocky said in an interview. “The issue with my album is I got things on it that’s so out of this world that it’s taking so long to get mastered. That’s the issue, and I refuse to take anything off. … It’s complete. Everything is being mastered and cleared right now.”"

lolololol

oh god i can imiagine him wide eyed with fear listening to the kendrick album - he raised the bar while i was faffing around smoking bongs with danny brown?

rockys music is so powerfully forward thinking that he has to wait for technology to catch up to him

"That shit was trill as fuck. Kurt Cobain was the shit, nigga."

"He got a song with Coldplay"

thinking about ASAP Rocky takes time that could be better spent thinking about literally any other rapper

for example: what are former Rap-a-Lot group A-G-2-A-Ke up to? what ever happened to Jarobi?

complex needs to hire people who can competently right up a news story, jesus

lol, an unfortunate typo

With tensions boiling through the media and from what we may not know, tonight could have been the culmination of their rising tensions.

this is an opening sentence!

hector_doepos

complex needs to hire people who can competently right up a news story, jesus

― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Sunday, November 11, 2012 9:55 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol, an unfortunate typo

― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Sunday, November 11, 2012 9:56 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

classic

complex was one of the only sites to compile the tell-tale tweets. modern journalism!

Caramanica on ASAP Yams

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/arts/music/asap-yams-partner-to-hip-hops-asap-rocky.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://bodying.tumblr.com/post/41646631557/fun-facts-that-didnt-fit-in-the-yams

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/01/25/arts/music/hitmakers-asap-yams.html

Since April 2010 he’d been running a Tumblr — the title is unprintable —

lol

i like how NYT's style guide is all "yeah, we're not doing that dollar sign shit"

ha

personally i'm not buying the idea that yams created RNT in some mastermind plan to blow asap rocky up

Agree. But I bet he saw the opportunities pretty early as it got going.

yeah.

i wonder if rocky or anyone else in the asap camp read that article and objected to how much credit caramanica gave yams for helping to create rocky

-“Fuckin’ Problems” came from Drake’s camp more or less complete.

interesting

Sounded like a Drake song with a Rocky verse thrown in.

*sounds

i don't see why it's implausible. a LOT of dudes have tried to start rap blogs in the past few years in part to build buzz for their own career or someone in their crew, the other ones just weren't so successful.

oh it's certainly plausible

-“Fuckin’ Problems” came from Drake’s camp more or less complete.

well yeah that's not surprising at all

it really is kind of diabolical how Drake has been running a lead single factory for new dudes trying to get a release date

I wish he hadn't ruined "fo real" but i think that could be a big single for Future anyway

yeah i mean there are songs like "Amen" where he doesn't really get in the way or drive the appeal of the whole thing

new track "LSD" is great imo + video is great too

is it just me or does the video have serious "enter the void" vibes?

good thread

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, June 28, 2012 9:05 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i agree and thanks for your contribution, don't think it's gone unnoticed

― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, June 28, 2012 9:07 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and, while i can't talk specifics, when the ILX regional manager position opens up in a few months, your name has come up some of our discussions

― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, June 28, 2012 9:08 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The video is stunning

got Enter the Void vibes yea

"rocky has literally nothing to say about anything, not even his own music."

its a$ap rocky. he is not exactly known for his content.

this song kinda shades whoever upthread was saying kendrick's prob got a$ap worried, i'm not a huge fan of his necessarily (i like stuff like "suddenly" a lot) but this is definitely a next level iteration of his aesthetic. pretty beautiful actually, gonna go add to my 2015 songs list rn

video's really nice too (and bonus cred in my book as more fuel to the fire that is asian pop culture's takeover in the next year or two, shit is everywhere these days get hype)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtZBA1bVbcs

A$AP Roddy

album came out a week early & is streamable. tracklist looks both intriguing and overstuffed as hell

I've loved most of the new songs tho, especially everyday and LSD

a few listens, a few thoughts...

pleasantly surprised to hear this more psychedelic sound suiting him well, but aside from a few highlights it feels unfocused. not helped by all the bloat... cutting the entire middle third of the record (really, up until wayne's verse) would do a lot of good by itself. also some sequencing weirdness, I'm not sure if the record needed both "LSD" and "excuse me" but it definitely didn't need them side by side.

speaking of, I really was not expecting wayne to save "M'$." might be the best verse on the whole album...following his show-stealer on tyler's new one, no less. digging how he really shows up on these younger rappers' records, hoping it continues, (elsewhere, I wonder what kanye wanted in return for...that...)

i cannot stand that L$D song jeez :( :( :(

hope the album is better

ferg is my fav asap tho

my fav asap is nast