The production resembles an Enya track but with hip-hop drums, and Rocky finds duality as he switches between aggressive flows on the verses and faint singing on the hook. Produced by right-hand man Clams Casino, it features Rocky delving into his personal issues and drug use, as he seeks a way to escape his demons. The very faults that could have landed him in the same position as Max B: a rapper who is currently serving a 75 year prison sentence. Boasting a dystopian, blood-rushing beat courtesy of Hector Delgado, and a hauntingly lo-fi hook from Joe Fox, Asap Rocky contemplates his wrongdoings. As we await his new album Testingit only made sense to venture back into his catalogue, and compile a list of his 6 most underrated tracks that represent his artistic excellence. You know what I'm saying?Asap Rocky is one of the biggest rappers of this past decade. I don't care what straight people do, I don't care what gay people do. There's just so much out there and so much inspiration I just want to be tasteful. So it's one of those situations where I always kept my head up. I didn't want to be a loser, but I didn't want to fit in at the same time because I don't like just being ordinary. I want to inspire people to really open up their minds and not be one-sided or biased or hypocritical. I mean, I didn't ask to be a role model, because I'm not perfect. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.Įverybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. I just have a dark side to me, which we all do. I'm a people's person, believe it or not.
Practice makes perfect, so we fightin' for a purpose. We could fight the fuss till we get like friends, Or somebody bite the dust and we split like ends.Įven in our wildest moments, girl, I'm on it cause you're worth it. I want to make my own path and leave behind a good legacy for myself and honestly, I just want to be innovative and always down for other people.
There's not really much somebody can say to me to bring down my confidence or anything. I've got so much in my brain and I want to change the way we think sometimes. The worst thing a good girl could do to you is break your heart. God is letting me shine, because I've got a good heart.
Kids Turned Out Fine.īlack Tux, White Collar.Man gave us laws, and God gave us time, It's the art of storytelling and I'm only telling mine. ASAP Rocky Quotesįeatures Interviews Lists. Category:ASAP Rocky songsĭrinking Hanging Out In Love. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Like any set of experiments, Testing offers some success, some failure, and some moments that can only be met with a blank stare. The album title itself refers to testing new sounds and pushing in new directions in hopes of growth. On "OG Beeper," nostalgic remembrances of troubled younger days are buried beneath an anxious beat, and the warped and woozy "Kids Turned Out Fine" inverts this perspective, looking at the troubles of the next generation. Testing often feels like an uneasy dream, and this feeling is added to by the sometimes awkward sway toward more personal lyrical content. There's an immediate feeling of creative abandon in the swell of subsonic bass that opens the record and leads into the messy, swimming "Distorted Records. Songs defined by murky, narcotic production choices showed up alongside the most by-the-numbers club bangers on debut LONG.