There is absolutely nothing special about ASAP Rocky

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i've been saying this for a while now.... this is exactly why his album is trash in my eyes


His flow is almost second to non. He can ride a beat like no other.

no way :heh: his half bone thugs half outkast flow is nothing special at all.
 

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Ain't nothing :wrist: about it? :birdman:

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Romeo got all them nigs beat tho.:salute:
 

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Best & most accurate post I've seen on Asap Rocky
i’m starting to feel like people like asap rocky who literally rap about the same thing every single time they get in front of a microphone are the ones who are failures as artists. when i hear asap rocky it just sounds like lil b minus the idiosyncracies, drake minus the hooks, odd future minus the gritty, messy humanity. he’s a walking, talking handshake, a business deal in the shape of a person, a compromise. a bunch of really exciting, inspirational decisions about aesthetics and positioning orbiting a void, a bunch of cool clothes draped around total emptiness, a black hole in space

The artist Asap Rocky is literally a nothing. Can't wait till the pretentious swag fags career is over next year.
 

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I'm a fan and I agree theres nothing special about him as a rapper. He just swags over a track and says some fly sh*T and has good beat selection.

Everytime he does a feature he gets eaten. What Q did to him on PMW wasn't nice and like 25 niqqas ate his food on 1Train :dead:

:laugh: nikkas came with the heat on that shyt, but I think Rocky's verse is kind of underrated. KRIT and Kendrick were exceptionally nice, but Rocky's verse was structured very well. Kid can definitely flow.

I kinda consider myself an A$AP fan and I agree that there's nothing really special about him either.

He makes good music :manny: Great ear for beats. Knows how to write songs :yeshrug: I'd say that having his own certain style (even if it ain't that unique) kinda helps him to be more consistent.

Plus, imo, he has also improved 'lyrically' if u compare his album to his mixtape or A$AP Mob mixtape.

This. People think music has to work one way in hip-hop and this is why there's such a great divide (especially in this genre). Music's like marijuana. Some shyt is sativa, some shyt is indica, and some shyt is a hybrid.

If you want a raw flow-based, lyrical brain-buzz, go listen to some sativa shyt.

If you want some well-produced shyt that makes your body react for a body-buzz, listen to some less lyrical indica shyt. Nothing wrong with that. That's the beauty of music.

Rocky is a hybrid. He isn't super lyrical or constantly hitting you with metaphors. He's just riding a beat and weaving through it stylistically with a mixture of influences from different regions. He doesn't feel like he has to be strict with it and that's what's dope about it.

He's for people that are into fashion and fukkery. I know kids from the hood that get money and get into the boutique lifestyle that love A$AP Rocky because they can appreciate his knowledge of their interests (fashion, being from the hood and being different ("Rare"), being flashy/artsy and taking risks but still being ignorant when you want to be.

There's a decently-large demographic for that :manny:

it's easy to flow on a beat when you're not really spitting any complex rhyme schemes or metaphors... he's just basically "swaggin" over beats :manny:

Like I said, nothing wrong with that. Sometimes, you just want to listen to some swagged-out shyt when you're in that kind of mood. Want to learn something? Ras Kass and Nas is right there for you.

no way :heh: his half bone thugs half outkast flow is nothing special at all.

Guess we should just be waiting for Bone & Outkast to drop some new shyt then.:notsure: Being able to combine those two styles/influences and making it work definitely seems at least SOMEWHAT special to me...but that's just me. Kid can rap, has nice songs, and he isn't saying retarded wack off-beat shyt. :manny:
 

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Guess we should just be waiting for Bone & Outkast to drop some new shyt then.:notsure: Being able to combine those two styles/influences and making it work definitely seems at least SOMEWHAT special to me...but that's just me. Kid can rap, has nice songs, and he isn't saying retarded wack off-beat shyt. :manny:

yeah but he doesn't make it work. it sounds more like a ripoff or a failed homage than a good representation. you're not even really supposed to sound like other rappers anyways.

his music isn't even really that amazing to make up for all his flaws. the chopped & slopped hooks and nice beats have all been done/heard before. a rapper like kanye's music is good enough to make up for anything he lacks at, asap's doesn't. we've all seen & heard his flows, beats, rhymes, subjects, clothes, i just don't get it :beli:

and btw, ASAP CANNOT rap. he's never impressed me with a single verse in my life. all his verses involve some gun reference or money, p*ssy, weed reference. like, all of them. he's boring too. and btw, he IS saying retarded wack off-beat shyt :heh:

"They say money make a nikka act ******-ish/
But least a nikka nikka rich"




if you could link me to a nice ASAP verse i would gladly change some of my opinions on him :yeshrug:
 

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I hate to agree since I like LLA but let's be real, he's the epitome of being at the right place at the right time. His beat selection is second to none but dude is just a little above average and far from unique or special as an artist/MC.
 

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Best & most accurate post I've seen on Asap Rocky


The artist Asap Rocky is literally a nothing. Can't wait till the pretentious swag fags career is over next year.

word we taking white hipsters
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opinions on hip hop seriously now :huh: :laugh: :smh:

besides the fact that the last 2 sentences of that paragraph were basically unintelligible and made no sense, imma respond to this

Rocky has established himself as a braggadocio rapper, just like pioneers of the genre like BDK, Rakim, LL etc. So I don't see why people get criticized for this today. Not every artist has to spit about thought-provoking shyt on each record. Music is still entertainment at the end of the day. I don't understand how that dweeb can talk about appreciating Lil B and not being able to appreciate Rocky in the same vein. He sound like a struggling artist mad that Rocky got hot on image and good marketing :jawalrus:
 

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Rocky's flow is just so :noah:



"We had cookouts and dirt bikes and dice games and fist fights
And fish fries and shootouts like one SIG with two rounds
And one click left two down, that’s four kids but one lived
Left three dead, but one split, that one miss, that one snitch
That’s everyday shyt, shyt we used to that
Add it up, do the math with your stupid ass
Don’t view me as no conscious cat, this ain’t no conscious rap
fukk the conscious crap, my mac’ll push your conscience back"

:noah:
 
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