album cover: http://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2015/05/21134309/ASAP-Rocky-AtLongLastASAP-560x560.jpg

Tracklist:
01 “Holy Ghost” (Feat. Joe Fox)
02 “Canal St.” (Feat. Bones)
03 “Fine Whine” (Feat. M.I.A., Future & Joe Fox)
04 “L$D”
05 “Excuse Me”
06 “JD”
07 “Lord Pretty Flacko Jodye 2″
08 “Electric Body” (Feat. Schoolboy Q)
09 “Jukebox Joints” (Feat. Kanye West & Joe Fox)
10 “Max B” (Feat. Joe Fox)
11 “Pharsyde” (Feat. Joe Fox)
12 “Wavybone” (Feat. Juicy J & UGK)
13 “Westside Highway” (Feat. James Fauntleroy)
14 “Better Things”
15 “M’$” (Feat. Lil’ Wayne)
16 “Dreams (Interlude)”
17 “Everyday” (Feat. Rod Stewart & Miguel)
18 “Back Home” (Feat. Mos Def, Acyde & Yams)

In stores June 2, 2005

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Def better than what he went with

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...is somewhat creepy and somewhat confusing to look at. This one is clean, simple, and makes his statement effectively.




Since 1976

from all the reports.

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like no Ferg at least

Lol

that's the one I'm most interested in

n/m

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that shit is NICE

LSD sucks ass tho

http://www.audiomack.com/song/random-2/electric-body

this is better but the beat switches/"movements" have already lost their novelty. that's 3 songs in a row with at least one beat switch. maybe 2-3 beats per song is a theme of the album. perhaps rocky has had "a name i call myself" on repeat for the past year or so...

.

Lol

From what I've heard, including the SchoolBoyQ feature released today, I'm actually really excited for this album!

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One listen in and it's WAAAAY better than the last album. It's a fun summer album.

The joint with Ye?
Dilla knockoff?

And this Joe Fox guy, before I do my own googles...
Anybody know anything about him?
He have any solo material?

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...The fact that he didn't know who Rocky was is kinda amazing. I wonder if someone is gonna upload the CD he was selling?

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Weird that L$D and Everyday are singles as they're some of the weaker songs on there. They do improve when heard with the context of the album though.

It definitely delivers much closer to the "promise" of Long.Live.A$AP than Live.Love.A$AP did.

there's some pretty crazy shit on here.

is that track with Mos Def and Yams a DJ Premier beat? kinda sounds it but could also not be.

edit: btw, Wavybone is like a million fire emojis.

>is that track with Mos Def and Yams a DJ Premier beat? kinda
>sounds it but could also not be.

"I swear that bitch Rita Ora got a big mouth/Next time I see her might curse the bitch out/Kicked the bitch out once cause she bitched out/Spit my kids out, jizzed up all in her mouth and made the bitch bounce."

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but this lyric is over the top. Talking that way about some fictional woman is one thing, but talking about another person like that is flat out wrong.

This is a tangent, but I feel the same way about the guy Kendrick dissed on 'These Walls'. Talk about someone all you want on your own, but it's wrong to aire out your grief in the general public.

A lot worse has been said in hip hop beefs in the past than that line. Some of the greatest diss records of all time got personal against their opponent, that's what makes them great. No Vaseline and hit em up both come to mind. I hate how hip hop music is being softened on all fronts. Producers can't sample like they used to because rap music is a business now and everyone wants their cut. Now people are offended by lyrics? Political correctness will be the death of hip hop as we once knew it.

>Now people are offended by
>lyrics? Political correctness will be the death of hip hop as
>we once knew it.

and the thing is, he wouldn't have thrown those bars at Minaj because THEN it would be hip-hop beef...this is as PC as he can get launching salvos at someone who can't clap back on wax.

It was a bitch made move, similar to when Jay-Z fucked up talking about Nas's baby moms on wax.

I read the article and see your point now, I didnt realize they had a history together.

>A lot worse has been said in hip hop beefs in the past than
>that line. Some of the greatest diss records of all time got
>personal against their opponent, that's what makes them great.
>No Vaseline and hit em up both come to mind. I hate how hip
>hop music is being softened on all fronts. Producers can't
>sample like they used to because rap music is a business now
>and everyone wants their cut. Now people are offended by
>lyrics? Political correctness will be the death of hip hop as
>we once knew it.

And it's cornball middle school grade corny

Nobody does that

That isn't Hip-Hop

That's sensitive bitch shit



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i keep seeing the word "experimental" tossed around re: this album and i'm just not hearing that in these songs. it sounds like a polished version of the yams aesthetic plus danger mouse. there is this interesting ebb and flow of tense, dark minimalist tracks juxtaposed with lush psychedelica and throwback soul samples but i'm not sure that it works. there are a lot of starts and stops throughout the record. some of that is due to the incessant mid-song beat switches and/or interludes and some of it is from the different style songs placed next to each other. i kind of wish he would have stuck with one style or maybe split it into 2 or 3 "sides" of the album

to rocky's credit he sounded at home on everything. he's rarely saying anything of worth but he makes it sound really good

q's verse on 'electric body' is fantastic. ye's verse on 'jukebox joints' is embarrassing. i can't believe he allowed it to be released. i'm not sure what joe fox adds to this album

i think 'multiply' should have made the cut. it's better than most of the tracks on here

this album is horrific.

gave it a front-to-back full listen at work today and i was blown away at how bad some of it is was

i'm listening now and i think the thing that really gets at me is just how every single thing he says is an absolute cliche

and i listen to wayne and thug and plenty of people who say a whole lot of nothing. but it feels disingenuous to that point that it's really unlistenable for me

his persona never changed but he really just sounds like someone trying to fill in the blanks at every single turn. sometimes i wonder if he's so dumb that he's literally incapable of introspection

i've said this before, but i loved his first tape and consider it a borderline classic, but everything since then has been middling at best and horrible at worst. front-to-back, this album is the worst case scenario

hey, maybe some of it will grow on me with time. but sheesh, at least the last album had gunplay

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I dig this. I think Yams' made him go a lil introspective

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What is appealing about him?

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I think he's a rapper that is actually cool. He has a good voice. He can ride a beat and supports his team. Oh and he doesn't sound like anyone else.

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>Oh and he
>doesn't sound like anyone else.

Esteemed author of the celebrated, double-platinum post: "Drake - Wu-Tang Forever".

Nobody black and over 21 thinks he is "cool"

Maybe "funny" or "that nigga crazy right there" or
"that's a dope watch"

But "cool?"

Nope.

That's all I have to say.

Rest In Peace, Bad News Brown

i honestly dont get it
he is a D- rapper lyrically
his last album was actually trash
(even though it had a couple joints i fucked with)

but i really dont know why he gets as much burn as he does honestly
i mean i do but i dont.

Because *most of us* have a sibling, uncle or
are ourselves as cool and edgy a personality, so
that can't be it. I don't need A$AP to feel cool,
or for fashion. Most of us grew up with uncles who are
firefighters who dress better and got super fly women

Don't get me wrong: Coolness is never IRRELEVANT

But the whole "edgy" thing used to be relevant only
if you were GOOD

Like, Jay-Z is cool, but he can rap. So could Kane. So
could Rakim. Same with Nas. Same with Kendrick. Hell,
Drake can actually rap.

But A$AP? I can understand white America fetishization..
...I saw that Lana Del Rey video with him and was like
"yup, now I get." Video was legitimately the white woman's
sexual fantasy....so I get it.

Maybe there's a generation of upper middle class black
kid that didn't grow up with "coolness" as a part of
their household

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I mean...

look at what shit was most popular in the '00s.
No Limit was a thing.
Dipset was a thing.
NORE was a "thing", perhaps even more so than his time with Capone.

Yes, I'm mad. Let's move on.

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.

Every group likes bad music, we're talking about something
different here, though

>I mean...
>
>look at what shit was most popular in the '00s.

>No Limit was a thing.

That was the South feeling left out of rap and music,
plus most of the South is still in Jim Crow, so they were
mostly happy at a black man getting over, which I fully
support

Harlem has a long legacy of black genius from Langston Hughes
to Big L. A$AP does nothing for black people from Harlem, which
is why most of his appeal is from white people

>Dipset was a thing.

a) All of the visible members were better rappers, much better,
than A$AP

b) White kids actually made Dipset the cult phenomenon that
they became. Rap Genius founder dude says Dipset era Cam'ron
was one of his inspirations, for example

>NORE was a "thing", perhaps even more so than his time with
>Capone.

NORE was a "thing" mostly because of the Nas co-sign, and pretty
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>That was the South feeling left out of rap and music,
>plus most of the South is still in Jim Crow, so they were
>mostly happy at a black man getting over, which I fully
>support

the South had long been in rap music before No Limit.
No Limit was a populist revolt, I'll give you that.
but Geto Boys, UGK, Kast, Ball & G (on the low, P.A. and 'em) take a diarrhea-fied shit on most of the core members catalog (their best rappers were the bench: Mia, Mac, etc).

Master P was to 2Pac what the Kia Amanti is to a Mercedes S-Class

C-Murder was a poor man's stereotypical "West Coast gangsta rapper"

and Silkk never met a beat he could catch.

BASURA.

Cash Money was a much better version of what No Limit was doing (minus Birdman).

that "did it on the cheap" crew bullshit spawned the Ruff Ryderz, which lived and died on how high DMX's buzz was... still allowed too many weak-ass beats to be cosigned.

>Harlem has a long legacy of black genius from Langston Hughes
>to Big L. A$AP does nothing for black people from Harlem,
>which
>is why most of his appeal is from white people
>
>>Dipset was a thing.
>
>a) All of the visible members were better rappers, much
>better,
>than A$AP
>
>b) White kids actually made Dipset the cult phenomenon that
>they became. Rap Genius founder dude says Dipset era Cam'ron
>was one of his inspirations, for example

Really? Even Juelz Santana (of whom I'm a bit of a fan)?
back in '03... once you got past Cam it was a SHARP decline. JR Writer might have been the best rapper behind Cam, Juelz got better over time, but there is no way you're gonna tell me Jim Jones was a better rapper than Rocky, LOL. Jim Jones was probably the most visible member of Dipset besides Cam and Juelz, and his rap skills were suspect...

(aside from "Dutty Clap", that is. his ad-lib skills were GDLK)

regarding the "Harlem" component, when I first learned of Ocho Seis I thought it was wack that he decided to rap like a dude NOT from NYC, but when I consider how old he is, and what rap he likely was exposed to in the key years... it makes sense. It's not totally a bad idea for artists to honestly follow their muse in that way. When it's part of some trend-hopping bullshit, then it's a problem.

But then again, there's Joey Bada$$. Whose whole career is kind of a "fuck you" to 2000s A&Rs.


>>NORE was a "thing", perhaps even more so than his time with
>>Capone.
>
>NORE was a "thing" mostly because of the Nas co-sign, and
>pretty
>much fell off right after that first album

Possibly, but Black folks loved the hell out of "Superthug".
(I personally hated the shit out of it, and songs like it caused me to point at the Neptunes as a catalyst in the fuckin' up of rap music... a stance I've somewhat backpedaled since)

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and by "it" I mean the incredible run of albums I've been enjoying since 'Cadillactica'....


gonna give it another spin on the train ride home from work, but right now, I'm listening for Kanye's and Wayne's verses (damn, I just typed that out loud).

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>right now, I'm listening for Kanye's and Wayne's verses
>(damn, I just typed that out loud).
>
>

On his tracks he has charisma, but I wouldn't want to hang with someone like that in real life because he's just too ignorant.

Like you said in a post, most black people of our generation have a relationship with someone who has a real sense of coolness AND is actually a decent human being.

Rocky would just seem like a knucklehead. He'd be a young cousin who you would just hope would get some perspective about his life an grow into maturity.

he's very much an artist of the 2010s, maybe the last few years of the Aughts

he sometimes reminds me of a less tweaked Lil B

>he's very much an artist of the 2010s, maybe the last few
>years of the Aughts
>
>he sometimes reminds me of a less tweaked Lil B

But I asked about the artist

which is the only reason I listen to an artist.

all the image shit is irrelevant, unless it overrides the music to a point that it's a distraction.

I'm sure this is true of any listener, Black or otherwise

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>which is the only reason I listen to an artist.
>
>all the image shit is irrelevant, unless it overrides the
>music to a point that it's a distraction.
>
>I'm sure this is true of any listener, Black or otherwise

This is astonishingly, tragically false, and I expect
better from you

People liked Chief Keef because it's entertaining to some
(white kids, black middle class kids) to watch and listen to
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>People liked Chief Keef because it's entertaining to some
>(white kids, black middle class kids) to watch and listen to
>black genocide, not because he makes good music

assessment of Keef, because the only thing I've ever liked where he was involved was that one song on Yeezus. his whole shit is bullshit.

the whole "Drill Music" phenomenon has the stink of "ghetto tourism" that might have always been around rap music, especially post-NWA but to such a perverse degree that it can't be ignored. shit's disgusting, when you really think about the conditions that brought about that scene.

I wouldn't put Rocky in the same boat as Keef though.
He's a goofnugget in many ways but not so "look at him, he's black and ______" like all that drill shit.

I think he's kind of hit-and-miss with his music actually, but the things that "hit", how can you fault any listener for being interested? especially when they're as "promoted" as he is.

>>People liked Chief Keef because it's entertaining to some
>>(white kids, black middle class kids) to watch and listen to
>>black genocide, not because he makes good music
>
>assessment of Keef, because the only thing I've ever liked
>where he was involved was that one song on Yeezus. his whole
>shit is bullshit.
>
>the whole "Drill Music" phenomenon has the stink of "ghetto
>tourism" that might have always been around rap music,
>especially post-NWA but to such a perverse degree that it
>can't be ignored. shit's disgusting, when you really think
>about the conditions that brought about that scene.
>
>I wouldn't put Rocky in the same boat as Keef though.
>He's a goofnugget in many ways but not so "look at him, he's
>black and ______" like all that drill shit.
>
>I think he's kind of hit-and-miss with his music actually, but
>the things that "hit", how can you fault any listener for
>being interested? especially when they're as "promoted" as he
>is.

This makes some sense

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he rides the beat better (ayo) than most rappers. he's not better than any of contemporaries, but he's not trash truck juice on the mic lyrically. there's always gonna be spot in mainstream rap for a dude just flowing laid back over nice instrumentals.

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>he rides the beat better (ayo) than most rappers. he's not
>better than any of contemporaries, but he's not trash truck
>juice on the mic lyrically. there's always gonna be spot in
>mainstream rap for a dude just flowing laid back over nice
>instrumentals.

So much so that I'll give his stuff another listen

(I am, however, on my fifth "another listen" with this
nigga, and after every one I'm like "naw, he sucks")

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I've given this album like 10 spins man.

on the subway.

off the subway.

on the surround sound.

on the studio monitors.

with the windows opened.

with the windows closed.

on a Mac, with Windows opened.

"it" is there, but I just don't get "it".....like the music is (cool?) and what he (does?) with it. He aint (wack?), and he aint killing shit, but for his lane, it's like......ok, I could see how that could be a thing to some people.

this shit made me browse drop crotch sweat pants on eBay, and had me like extensively looking for a pair that I would actually cop....and I ended up being like "nah, but I could see how they would look right on the right person that's into that"....that's the metaphor for this album to me. There are maybe some songs I could relisten to (regularly?) but like.....meh.

lol I won't call it wack anymore tho. I know he's going for that White dollar, and he possibly could have delivered that without truly compromising his (sound?) so....I guess there's some redeemable (B?)lackness in that.

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half good half trash... definitely not an album i see myself bumping in the summer...

I don't listen to rap albums with Rod Stewart involvement.

L$D yes.

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The album is cool.

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