Not angry at all. It was only a matter of time before people found out he was a flash in the pan. Don't act like he didnt build his hype from sounding like Houston/Memphis/Cleveland nikkaz. And Live Love ASAP sounded like a Houston tape. fukk is you talking about? He bit nikkaz from Houston flow and sound. You got to be trippin. Trilla, Houston Old Head, Purple Swag and Kissin Pink (the beginning chorus is even sampled from Big Pokey) All the slowed down chanting shyt is a toss up b/w Memphis and Houston. You can't be serious.Rocky really made some of y'all angry
Live.Love.ASAP is more non-Houston than it is Houston.
Aint it funny how it took us about 3 years to realize that ASAP Rocky is vapid trash
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Breh you were not with the wave, when Rocky released Live love that was pretty much perfect start to finish. That sound was so refreshing and his only trajectory seemed to be up from there.
Like he had absolutely MASSIVE potential but for some reason he really dumbed down his sound. I didnt even fukk with LVL like that for a long time because it felt like both clams and asap were not giving us the same shyt they were on Live love. Long Live was a solid follow up but nowhere near Live Love. fukkin Problems was a wack single and he hopped on more industry friendly beats.
If Rocky followed up with some heavy hitting Clams beats and brought the lyrical game up it would have been over
To imagine what could have been
Finally! someone fukking gets it!
What you said is EXACTLY what I expected from him: More Clams/Beautiful Lou/SGP/the guy who did Brand New Guy, same incredible charisma and flow, but LYRICAL GAME stepped up. I was so fukking excited for Rocky's debut album. I hadn't been that excited for a rap album since that Cuban Linx 2 snippet dropped.
I thought: "man... Clams Casino on radio! This shyt's gonna be crazy!"
And then Rocky/his team dropped the fukking ball.
name a single Houston tape that sounds like Live.Love.ASAP in its entirety. In fact, name a single Houston song that sounds like anything Clams Casino (Palace, Leaf, Bass, Demons, etc).
You didn't understand the fukking tape. Most of y'all didn't and this is why hip hop continues to be trash. The average fan of today chases mediocrity and can't appreciate when someone breaks the mold. If it isn't cosigned from a known person and doesn't fit into a familiar/comfortable image, it's not worth checking.
The genius of Live.Love.ASAP is that it's the marriage of almost all the regional styles in hip hop brought back to New York. Cats like Jay-Z, Masta Ace, Biggie and Camron/Dipset have flirted with other regions sounds but no one has done it as deeply as Yams/Rocky did on Live.Love.ASAP.
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I forgot who I'm talking to. No matter what I say you gonna dispute it so let's just agree to disagree. I'll just say aint shyt genius about Live Love ASAP. That lean slowed down sound shyt been done so many times in Houston it aint even funny. nikka we birthed that shyt. He's just a Frankenstein nikka that takes bits and pieces from each region thats not NY and puts it in a blender, but as you can see after 2 albums he's just a 1-3 trick pony that gets repetitive and doesnt really say shyt. Hell he already done and struggled to drop that second album.
Exactly, even on shyt like Kissin Pink his delivery is very Max B-esque. Palace is NY as fukk sonically but he switches up into a midwest flow, it's an amalgamation of styles but dumb nikkas can't look past purple swag or a New York rapper being influence by other regions, like those same regions wern't heavily influence by NY, @Monoblock above taking issue with a dude from another region taking something that was birthed elsewhere & probably can't even see the irony in that when he reads this
I'll admit to being the average New Yorker who hated of Rocky in the past, but that was mostly because of the hipster shyt he represented which I despise about modern NYC, but there's no doubting that LLA is the best shyt to come out of NY in years.
this. especially if you was from cali. that stoner/cloud rap wave with Wiz at the forefront was
. . but it was a very quick phase for me that ended as soon as that weed plate rolling papers came out.We saying the same thing. I saw what he was trying to do I just didnt like it. Different strokes/opinions.
Nobody is complaining because he didn't have some huge co sign. This nikka had one song out and was getting praised as the second coming of christ in 2 days. I saw how Chief Keef bubbled. I saw how Shmurda bubbled. Hell I even saw how Drake bubbled. This dude came out of no where without any real organic movement outside none industry blogs. Hes a plant and it was obvious. I tell you what tho. When that Goldie shyt flopped, he sure as hell got the biggest co signs ever for fukking problems
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so b/c he's from ny he has to rap on traditional ny production? he prolly grew up seeing guys like bun b, slim thug n paul wall on tv--i know i did-- and further explored and fell in love w/ the houston sound. he pays homage often. i hav no problem w/ this.
You're backing down already?
Such copout language. You say some ridiculous shyt, I ask for receipts, then you say "well you won't like receipts anyway"
Why wouldn't I? I'm the one that asked for them. nikkas say "he jacked Houston wholesale" and every time I ask for examples, nikkas go mute.
I wonder why that isI agree that y'all birthed the shyt. But if all you see in Live.Love.ASAP is lean slowed down sound, then you didn't understand the tape. real talk. While I respect Houston's contribution to the sound of Live.Love.ASAP, and it's a great one, there's way more to the tape than Houston.
No.... that's not how it happened. Rocky's path is VERY different from Keef and Shmurda. Keef had Kanye's cosign. Shmurda had Jay-Z/Beys cosign and a gang of others. Their songs were being played in clubs.
Nobody was bumping Purple Swag in clubs. Peso here and there, but that was mostly AFTER Live.Love.ASAP had already dropped.
Besides, Keef and Shmurda are afterthoughts. You're still talking about Rocky 4 years later. And face it - he'll always be remembered for Live.Love.ASAP. He's done the one thing few rappers ever do - have a classic album.
it was highly organic in the sense that the people who wrote about Rocky really fukked with his music. Dude was a total nobody on the internet with great music.
Rocky's come up is the "Internet music democracy" we all say should happen and rarely does.
but Kendrick and J Cole arent? The guys you never knew existed till Dre and Jay-Z told you about them?
Here you are worried about Rocky being a plant while probably bumping two of the most cosign-dependent rappers of all time.
And it's not even close.
this happens with every artists transition to mainstream. Rememeber he tried to take the mixtape sound mainstream with Goldie but it didnt work so back to the studio and you get fukking Problems.
they get busy touring/press so the content gets worse
the investers get in their pockets so they have to make a more radio friendly sound.
have you not caught up?