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Rocky’s Houston and Midwest rap influences are still palpable and live nicely alongside Skrillex’s whirring, crazed-out synths and 40’s penchant for nostalgic R&B. They provide a nice support and protect Rocky from his own lyrical shortcomings. “Fashion Killa,” for instance, is essentially a four-minute advertisement for luxury fashion, and although we applaud Rocky’s efforts at rhyming “Oliver Peoples” with “Ann Demeulemeester,” some 30 name-checks don’t equate to a particularly good song.Ī major label means bigger recording budgets, and production has been kicked up with Hit-Boy, 40, Jim Jonsin and Danger Mouse, along with previous contributor Clams Casino. It’s usually enjoyable - A$AP’s delivery is smooth and his charisma and bravado ooze off each track - but at times, it can feel uninspired. “Money, hoes and clothes” is the overriding theme on Long. In 1995, another New York rapper, the late, great Notorious B.I.G., deftly summarized aspirational rap with the memorable, “Money, hoes and clothes/All a n*gg* knows/A foolish pleasure/Whatever” in the breakout “Big Poppa.” A$AP Rocky was probably in elementary school at the time, but he clearly took a page (or several) from Biggie. “I said it must be cause a n*gg* got dough/Extraordinary swag and a mouth full of gold/Hoes at my shows/They be strippin' off they clothes,” he raps in the first single, “Goldie.” Signed to Polo Grounds with a reportedly $3 million deal, A$AP is enjoying major label life, his braggadocio and swagger on tilt.

A$AP (in stores today) is the glossier follow-up to its predecessor. Harlem street savvy crossed with a taste for SoHo flair and Rick Owens, the then 23-year-old rejected regionalism and made New York hip-hop sexier.

A$AP, he was touted as the new face of New York hip-hop. When A$AP Rocky emerged onto the hip-hop scene with his 2011 mixtape, Live. Download-Worthy: “F*ckin’ Problems,” “1 Train,” “Wild For The Night”

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