![]() ![]() If you’re a dreamer, that puts a chip on your shoulder, and you live to show the world what you’re capable of. Everyone means well, but what they’re really doing is socializing us into a sense of creative scope that’s smaller than our actual sphere of possibilities. ![]() You can see it in certain folks’ pleasant surprise to see kids grow up with different plans than city work or career college, in their tendency to size up muscular boys and telegraph what kind of sporting career they’re angling at, and in the nagging habit of genteel older white folks to adopt a light, outdated AAVE and say things like “my man” to you because they learned some jive in the ’70s. ![]() People don’t expect boys from Harlem to have that range. He raps, produces, models, designs, directs, acts, fronts a rap crew, and steers whatever AWGE is. You know, this shit is a cliché at this point.What does A$AP Rocky really want? Sometimes I think it’s just for everyone to know he’s well-rounded. I want to take a different approach, and I want to challenge the viewer who is tired of hearing the same old shit. I'm still trying to give you a beautiful canvas, but something different. ![]() I'm trying to make sure that I take precaution to where I'm not just drawing out of the lines all crazy, mixing my colors. "I'm experimenting in a more calculated way. "I think with this one, it's more deliberate," he says. On the first episode of Peter Rosenberg's new Complex show, Open Late, Rocky was asked how this album compares to his past work when it comes to experimentation and "testing sounds." From the sound of his answer, we'll be getting an album that still has plenty of mainstream appeal, but with some calculated, experimental touches. Since then, he's dropped a few loose tracks on SoundCloud as well as a recent single called "ASAP Forever," but he hasn't elaborated on just how experimental the album will be. I don't just rap, I actually make music." Back in October 2017, ASAP Rocky told GQ that his new album would be about "testing new sounds" and explained, "I prefer to experiment and have my crowd grow with me and to reach new crowds. ![]()
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