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Start doing something else.Īre there a lot of guests on the new album? I’m definitely gonna stick around for a bit before I just totally leave. Not knocking what they did, but I’m really comfortable with music right now. Do you ever see yourself doing the Will Smith or Ice Cube thing and going all in on movies? All I can imagine is that I would be where I last left off at. Do it because you mean it.ĭo you ever think about where you’d be if all this hadn’t happened.
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Just make it be about the right thing, not for attention or money. That’s our platform to voice our opinion, speak up. It’s sad, if you ask me.ĭo you feel it’s something you want to address in your music? I’m tired of hearing about all these police brutality shootings and shit. That’s all I can really say ’cause I’m in New York right now. I think like everybody else thinks: I think it’s fucked up. I just think in general it’s an ideal question. Be responsible.ĭo you think it’s a strange question to ask a musician about what’s happening in Baltimore right now? I just feel like my biggest challenge is doing things the new way. Gonna remain a cool cat, trying to stay away from trouble. We all gonna die - some shit is just inevitable. I haven’t gotten in any trouble in so long, and I’m just saying to myself, like, I’ve always been a good kid but trouble always found me. I think the world challenges me to stay sane. I’m not a role model, you know what I’m saying? Lead by example. I’m not concerned with being the best rapper. If I want a different outcome, it’s that simple. That’s just something that I gotta work hard at. I hope they’re watching.Īs a writer, do you feel like you’re underrated? I’m tired of motherfuckers like, “What is he gonna wear, some wack shit?” or something. I always been in that direction, I just got slept on. You’ve said you want to focus on your lyricism in a serious way. Obviously people want to talk - I guess I got a lot to say. You don’t gotta make press around it and shit. If I put out a video it’s about the fucking video. If I’m about to put out a song, it’s about the fucking song. I don’t want to make a spectacle about a lot of shit. Nah, I just get there and depending on how I feel I may leak some shit or drop some shit or not. Later in the night he would debut its first official single - the Rod Stewart-sampling “Everyday” - at a Red Bull Music Academy event, but first he talked to Rolling Stone about the record, Baltimore and Yams’ lost LP.ħ0 Greatest Music Documentaries of All Timeĭo you plan out breaking news, like the new track, in advance of interviews or events? “He was different,” Rocky says, intending that as high praise. When asked, “Do you get tired doing of these interviews?” he responds with a one-word answer: “Yeah.” He lights up for a moment when discussing his recently-deceased friend A$AP Yams. With his slender frame draped across a chair at a restaurant in Harlem, Rocky speaks in low, concise, stoned sentences. “Trust me, it ain’t no cheesy shit,” Rocky says of his mind-opening new direction. Rocky cut more than 40 songs, primarily in London, working with guests like Miguel, Mark Ronson and the former Mos Def, Yasiin Bey. A$AP, an album influenced by his recent psychedelic-drug use as well as the trippy sonics of producer Danger Mouse. Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky is blowing open the doors of perception with the forthcoming At.