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If you have ever seen a music video of his you know exactly what I’m talking about. Being exposed to Rocky, even more, especially his persona and his visuals only enhances the experience of Rocky’s music. It doesn’t end there though, as I mentioned does this atmosphere of his doesn’t only regard his music. Although this is where it gets impressive and unique, while he provides all these sounds which can vary hugely from each other, he always manages to keep the A$AP Rocky atmosphere” which to me is remarkable. He has a huge repertoire of sounds and vibes. This doesn’t mean that Rocky only makes the same type of tracks all the time though. That’s not the same thing though, because even though they may make music in the same lane, nobody has been able to create that specific atmosphere that Rocky always creates. Of course, has other rappers and artist made similar type of atmospheric and drugged out music, Travis Scott for example. Every project, every track creates an atmosphere that nobody ever really created in my opinion. You are free to think whatever you want about this aesthetic, but to me is this what makes Rocky one of the greatest artist ever (subjective), not rapper, but artist. This aesthetic isn’t something artificial, it’s fully organic, it is A$AP Rocky. Why is that? In my opinion or rather theory is that other artist tries to create this, while Rocky is just being himself and being genuine. This is what many artists aspire to achieve but nobody has done it quite like Rocky. Everything about him follows the theme of atmospheric, spacey and dark aesthetic that he always portrays with whatever he does. He has a theme throughout everything about him, from his persona, to production, to visuals, to fashion, to musicality, etc. Now is the only question, what’s next for Rocky?Ī$AP Rocky has never been “just a rapper”, he’s always been a unique and whole aesthetic. As the title suggests was Rocky testing a lot of new things on this project which many people, both critics, and fans thought was quite badly executed. Although he finally drops his third studio album TESTING, which arguably is Rocky’s first major musical setback. Three years more past and Rocky is going more and more into fashion and slowly fading away from many rap fans radar. Two years more past by and his second studio album, AT.$AP, the hype wasn’t as crazy as his first two projects but it once again was a big success and one step further in Rocky’s promising career, you could say that this album was the one that made Rocky went from “promising up and comer” to an established artist. Two years after he went onto release his studio album debut, $AP which once again was a huge success for Rocky. This mixtape was a great success due to its great reviews by both fans and critics. This leaked was greatly critically acclaimed and got him a deal at Polo Grounds Music, RCA Records and Sony Music where Rakim went onto release his debut project, $AP, in 2011. His first single “Peso” was leaked and started to play on the well-known radio station HOT 97. He started to get some buzz in July 2011 when a fan from Paris released an unofficial compilation project of some of Rocky’s “youtube hits”. A$AP has quite a few meanings, for example, “Always Strive And Prosper”, Assassinating Snitches And Police” or Rocky’s personal favorite “Acronym Symbolizing Any Purpose”. In 2007 did Rocky went on to collect lots of rappers, music video editors/directors and producers to create the hiphop collective A$AP. These turns of events made Rocky take his rapping more serious and he started striving for his dream for real, which was to pursue music. When he turned 12 was his father sent to prison for drug dealing and only one year after his first tragedy came the next one, his older brother was shot outside of the family apartment. He started rapping at only 8 years of age. Rocky showed an interest in both music and fashion at a young age. But Y'all probably know him as A$AP Rocky. Rakim Mayers named after the legendary MC, Rakim, was born on the third of October 1988, in Harlem, New York.
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