Panelist: Jacob Moore, Pigeons & Planes Rating: Reaction: ASAP Rocky isn’t doing anything new. The hood gon’ love it, the hipsters gon’ love it. A$AP struck a balance by rhyming like a parking lot pimp over warped beats. ![]() ![]() Other rappers who have attempted this new school formula ran the risk of being bludgeoned to death by Hip-Hop purists. The abstractness of LiveLoveA$AP is no doubt due in part to Clams Casino’s (Nutley, NJ stand up) swirly psychotropic production. That and he sounds like Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s cousin ("Trilla"). While this new age of Tumblr Rap can be grating at times, A$AP Rocky has a keen understanding of how to accurately slide genre-bending sounds into the Hip-Hop landscape (peep "Peso" and "Wassup"). LiveLoveA$AP was the true test, and he succeeded with flying colors. It was hard to gauge his longevity within the bars he spit in those cameos. A$AP’s been frequenting the Hulkshare circuit for a second, popping up here and there on some of his peers’ web cuts. ![]() I had my doubts about A$AP Rocky, because I don’t trust rappers with dollar signs in their names (unless you’re Too $hort). Panelist: Kathy Idoli, HipHopDX Rating: Reaction: In this era of Hip-Hop, it’s hard to distinguish which rappers will have a future beyond two mixtapes.
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