With today being Monday and all, fancy words sometimes elude my pursuit. Therefore, we’re just going to swipe VICE’s description for their premiere of A$AP Rocky’s “Wassup” video, which they also co-directed and produced too. Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes music videos are elaborate. Other times, they’re comprised of drinking OE forties and breaking down an ounce of popcorn with some ladies, then edited accordingly. In the case of this freshly-cut visual to ScHoolboy Q’s and A$AP’s exceptional “Hands On The Wheel,” there obviously wasn’t a budget for lowriders or shutting down any streets Read the rest of this entry »

“Wait hold up
Back up in this motherf*ckin’ b*tch once again
It’s the pretty motherf*cker with a forty ounce of brew
My n***a Q and we drunker than a b*tch Read the rest of this entry »

There were at least three million reasons for that pretty mothaf*%cka A$AP to celebrate last year. Now, to help spread said success even further into 2012, the Harlem native has reworked this unreleased track he recorded with Windy City MC Jon James into a solo effort. “Celebration” has a tad more mainstream-appeal than most of his down-tempo catalog Read the rest of this entry »

Even during the holidays, it’s no days off for Harlem as A$AP Rocky grinds on full steam ahead. His latest treat comes in the form of, “Pretty Flacko,” inspired by his newest, self-given moniker. Read the rest of this entry »

Somebody better get Miri Ben Ari on the phone. Hip-Hop violining just got a new entry into the game, courtesy of Jordan Ware’s strings version of Rocky’s “Pe$o.” Read the rest of this entry »

When you’re 23 and have turned a budding, underground rap career into a deal fit for Forbes, the intrigue is assumed. Yet, when it comes to Harlem’s ultra-hyped A$AP Rocky, the lure lies beneath the headlines. Think, for one minute, you had just seen your wildest dreams come to fruition. Now, imagine how you would handle yourself, as the opinions and expectations of others’ flooded in about the new found position of power, before you even had time unveil your motives. Read the rest of this entry »

Where Busta Rhymes’ signing with Cash Money was met with skepticism and French Montana’s expected Bad Boy deflection with a single sigh, Juicy J becoming Taylor Gang seems to make all the sense in the world. And it has more to do with he and Wiz’s common love for Miss Mary. Read the rest of this entry »

Days and days of getting blunted by the sticky haze will turn most rappers into bumbling idiots but for Danny Brown, it’s part of today’s complete breakfast. The marijuana chain-smoking don’t stop no matter what the clock says, just like the zany good time that was XXX.

Seeing that there’s more than enough indo to go around, Read the rest of this entry »

Seeing as Harlem’s A$AP Rocky hails just about 20 minutes from the Jamaica, Queens neighborhood G-Unit made infamous a decade ago, it’s only right these two generations of New York share a song on Banks’ long-awaited Cold Corner 2 mixtape. Read the rest of this entry »

There’s something unique about hype and anticipation. Eventually, it all boils down to the product to validate them. For ASAP Rocky, rap’s new wonder kid of the moment, the time is now. Read the rest of this entry »

We’ve all heard the phrase, “don’t buy into the hype.” But what happens when society moves so fast hype starts setting the trends? What happens when businesses are making potentially door-closing decisions on a whim because of the staggering pace at which their industry moves, and murmurs from one niche of the Internet lure them into a corner of no return? Read the rest of this entry »

You should know by now ASAP Rocky spends his free time letting his mind get lifted like Apollo 13 in a cloud of blunt fog. No biggie. He’s young and the cannabis is bringing out the best of his wonder years and his linking up with super production outfit The Olympicks proves it. Read the rest of this entry »

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Facebook Changes We’d Actually Want To See [Cool Material] Read the rest of this entry »

If David’s well-spoken sentiment on A$AP Rocky was the first time you really dug into Harlem’s promising mic terror, here’s some more homework. Read the rest of this entry »