A$AP was filled with quality beat after quality beat. He’s also known for picking some of the most interesting beats of any MC out there. A$AP. It’s his gimmick, his schtick, as it were. He raps about it or at least mentions it in nearly every song on this album and his 2011 breakout mixtape Live. The stelf-stylized “pretty motherfucker” knows how to dress, knows how to look good, knows how to sound good, and wants you to know about it. If there’s one thing you can say about Rakim Mayers, better known as A$AP Rocky, it’s that he’s got style. This debate continues, and it’s one of the major dynamics alive both in this album and A$AP Rocky’s young hip-hop career. It all probably started back when some flashy kid named Icarus decided that he only cared about looking cool, flew too close to the sun, got burnt, and ended up smashed on the rocks below. ![]() Substance versus style is an age old debate going back somewhere near the dawn of time.
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