ASAP Rocky says today’s rap music is stuck in an adolescent place and not mature; blames Soulja Boy

[Amo Husserl]

Rocky was the first to usher in the regionless/internet era. His first tape was influenced by chopped and screwed, Bone Thugs, 3-6 all with that New York braggadacious over cloud rap beats with swag rap elements. It turned out to be one of the best mixtapes of All-Time. Dude made art, created a different musical backdrop, and aesthetic.

Every project he has dropped he has taken artistic risks.

 

[MischievousMonkey]

He didn't blame Soulja Boy

He's old now though so it makes sense

 

[Chris Cool]

To really prove Rocky’s point, you have to look at the types of singles that came out after Crank That blew up





The list really goes on. This shyt’s a far cry from Ross, Jeezy, TI first singles. The south was already eating but Soulja set the tone for really remedial, juvenile TikTok type dance songs and the trend never went away

Charles Hamilton said the same thing about Soulja Boy around 2008, that Interscope wasn’t trying to let you drop unless you had a comedy/dance song

The Gibbs song came a whole year before crank that.

 

[Wargames]

I think he started working with Nas and Nas perspective rubbed off on him.

 

[Manolo]

The Gibbs song came a whole year before crank that.

Regardless plenty bullshyt was dropping after Crank That

 

[nightpupil]

I wanna clear some shyt up.. D4L and all that dance music bullshyt that came after I was wilding on 106 and park was all their idea and I never cosigned that shyt. There's a lot of information and a lot years of being connected to a bunch of websites and entities, so I know there still a lot of classics people don't know about. And a lot of of shyt these people just give y'all to run with. When I was in 106 n park live I would go to AOL, fukking AOL that's how long ago this was.. I had a fukking prog or program if you want to call it, that scrolled what music you where playing into the chat rooms( that's how, that's my dJ started). I would go to the miami chat when 106 n park came on and would do my thing by talking and just playing music. I would move the needle (We talked about this) for some shyt but no one was checking up on these people. I was so followed I thought it was everyone and they mama when really it was just them. lol I mean when I talked sometimes they would connect it and shyt.. But i was playing west coast music on the chat. Because i had just found sealed west coast tapes at f.y.e for 50 fukking cent, this is when they where getting rid of their tapes. I played other music too but it was specially this West Coast song that sounded just like a Pharrell song that was in rotation but it was dissing and i was lmao, it had the same chorus and everything, shyt and sounded just like it.. Nothing came of it, so now you see and later on Pharrell shows up in one of his videos looking at the camera and he thinks he's sly and says something, i forgot what it was, and dusted the horse from his polo shirt off.. So now you see what kind of fukk heads they are.. So get off my dikk dumb fukk......

 

[bigde09]

To really prove Rocky’s point, you have to look at the types of singles that came out after Crank That blew up





The list really goes on. This shyt’s a far cry from Ross, Jeezy, TI first singles. The south was already eating but Soulja set the tone for really remedial, juvenile TikTok type dance songs and the trend never went away

Charles Hamilton said the same thing about Soulja Boy around 2008, that Interscope wasn’t trying to let you drop unless you had a comedy/dance song

Got damn I forgot how trash 07-09 was

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

go fight that charge Rocky

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

To really prove Rocky’s point, you have to look at the types of singles that came out after Crank That blew up





The list really goes on. This shyt’s a far cry from Ross, Jeezy, TI first singles. The south was already eating but Soulja set the tone for really remedial, juvenile TikTok type dance songs and the trend never went away

Charles Hamilton said the same thing about Soulja Boy around 2008, that Interscope wasn’t trying to let you drop unless you had a comedy/dance song

yeah the problem was the Ringtone era and labels not selling CDs due to internet pirating.

Thats why music quality kinda bounced back after streaming and labels gained their control back

Its very interesting what happened.

A lotta artists got left in limbo.

If you put Wale and KRIT out now, they DEMOLISH the competition

 

[nightpupil]

oh well it seems people are always pointing to me for starting that shyt. Misunderstanding......

 

[Unknown Poster]

To really prove Rocky’s point, you have to look at the types of singles that came out after Crank That blew up





The list really goes on. This shyt’s a far cry from Ross, Jeezy, TI first singles. The south was already eating but Soulja set the tone for really remedial, juvenile TikTok type dance songs and the trend never went away

Charles Hamilton said the same thing about Soulja Boy around 2008, that Interscope wasn’t trying to let you drop unless you had a comedy/dance song

These all came out before Crank That.

 

[Kuma the Bear]

Mature hip hop


A$AP Rocky
Army boots, army bomber jacket
Like, what's happening, c*nt? (Huh)
Lay your hand upon my fabric
Then we scrappin', c*nt (Huh)
Broad day wave a automatic
Like, what's hannenin'? (fukk that)
My pistol rick and raf'ing
And it's matching with my fashion (Uh)
Uh, silly c*nt, downtown, uptown, really where we from (Woadie!)


3 c*nts to start a verse

Roll my blunt, fill my cup, be my bytch
Hold my gun, load it up, count my slugs (That's my bytch)
Yeah, they don't know nothin'
Roll my blunt, be my bytch (That's my bytch)
They don't know nothin'
Roll my blunt, fill my cup (That's my bytch)
They don't know nothin' (That's my bytch)

Roll my blunt, fill my cup, be my bytch, rub my gut
Rub yo' butt, be my slut, be my c*nt, yeah, so what?
fukk them hoes (That's my bytch) They don't know nothin' (Yeah, yeah)
fukk they talk 'bout? (That's my bytch)
'Cause they don't know nothin'

 

[Why-Fi]

to be fair popular music is not supposed to be mature

people have weird ideas about hip hop. just listen to the old shyt like fans of every other genre do

 

[u mad son?]

Asap is right

and Soljas response lol ... he took 3 sentances to essentially say nothing at all.

 

[TXTrill1]

Wow this dude got some nerve talkin about “mature” Hip Hop with some the of the rhymes he spit.

“ I get get my dikk licked red bone complexion like a piglet”

Man Rocky need to shut his ass up. If Krit, Cole, Kendrick, etc. said this it’d be different but this is the wrong messager fasho