For the latest Dazed cover story, I went to NYC to meet hip hop’s golden boy, A$AP Rocky and his A$AP Mob to get the low down on his overnight success and to take a tour of the crew’s favorite local spots. After a shopping spree in Soho, the fashion fanatics braved sub zero temperatures for a photo shoot on Harlem’s legendary Rucker Park basketball court with Ari Marcopoulos before heading home to 116th Street for a soul food banquet at Amy Ruth’s. They even squeezed in an impromptu house call on one of their grannies who hadn’t seen Rocky since his videos “Peso” and “Purple Swag” blew up and landed the 24-year-old rapper with a $3 million record deal. The next day I met them and a very large Rottweiler called Brody at a crumbling mansion in New Jersey as they filmed the final scene of Rocky’s “Wassup” video. It was a wild 24 hours…
Amy Ruth’s = crack. Especially when you’re drunk off your ass at two in the morning.
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Sub-zero temperatures? I really don’t think it was below zero at all this year. That’s a rare occurrence in NYC.
3 Million for this wack shit? i doubt he will even sell more than 300k
Carefully crafted image by a marketing company (check!). Uninspired music (check!). Hip hop blogs eating it up as the next thing (check!). Hipster blogs on board to claim some blackness (check!).
This would have worked in 2007, I think listeners won’t be fooled this time around. It’s basically the NY version of Tyler the Creator seen through a Dip Set filter.
like the movement they bringin harlem back damn i didnt know you could have the nice cars and big ass mansion before your album comes out 3 million dollars damn hope its not one them deals where you gotta pay the record company back or you gotta make sure that album dont flop
@ghettoboy
Co muthafuckin sign. I don’t get the hype either.
any time you say you the first to do something any where you should stupid. just saying
that mansion not theirs they was jus flossin wit it at da “wassup” video shoot…..
This guy bit on Tyler’s game so hard. Must be what all that metal’s for.
i dnt understand how yall say he bit tyler..tyler’s content is evil demonic n jus some wild unbelievable ish n name droppin..asap rocky’s style is ima pretty lil nygga (no homo) who get batches smoke weed drink purp n have fun livin da harlem wayy…i guess asap rocky got a dark undertone so dats why yall say he tyler imo…
I hope dude ain’t gotta pay that money back he doesn’t have staying power like WIZ,BIG SEAN ECT… HE’S GOING TO DISAPPEAR
This guy just said hes the God of the new generation of hiphop. SMH.
wtf man…how many “blogs” or “journalists” are gonna go and ask dude the same effin questions over and over and over and over?
It’s not about East or West
It’s about niggaz and bitches, power and money,
riders and punks. Which side are you on?
asap a punk and so if odd faggit
So most of you already don’t like his music so your going to watch a interview with him? I’m confused…
The ‘likes’ dont match the comments at all…
This shit is literally the black entourage.
for the guy that said this is exactly like Tyler the Creator but NY I agree to the fullest, its like were re living this shit all over again. Give me something new!
Rocky is a crab for the way he did Space Ghost Purrp. He continues to diss him. That remark he made about faking the funk was directed toward OG Purrp. He was just SPG was his twin 3 months ago now it’s fvck him? Doesn’t sit rigt with me. Asap mobb look out for your shady front man.
He talks about getting bitches so much I’m starting to not believe him lol
Something smell fishy about their whole camp to me.
yup, it’s exactly like odd future. the only difference is that the leader of the camp is actually a talented rapper who doesn’t rely on shock value rap to get hype.
I’m glad he could explain the difference between being a “pretty motherfucker” and a “handsome motherfucker”, that’s been baffling me forever now.
^^^HAHAHAHA! you sound dead serious too.
“Rocky is a crab for the way he did Space Ghost Purrp.”
DZA and Purrp had a show in NYC a few days ago and guess who he bought out!? The whole ASAP crew… So maybe you dont know wtf your talking about
^^^^ all ignorant comments by haters. or underage teenagers living in their basement.