Tag: A$AP Rocky
When A$AP Rocky first started making waves back in 2011, my first impression of him was only that his name was similar to that of Aesop Rock, the motormouthed, surrealist rapper of whom I was a borderline obsessive fan back in high school. Now, here’s a video of the two meeting backstage at Rock the […]
You clicked the headline, so you already know what you’re in for. Here’s a beautifully produced video of a few very old white people reciting the lyrics to A$AP Rocky’s “Houston Old Head.” It is very funny, especially when you get to “pimpin’ bitches since lemon shrimp lo mein.” These people are actually very compelling […]
Each week in Sample Wars, we’ll pit two songs which sample the same source material head-to-head against each other, to determine which one rocked the sample better. This week’s Sample Wars concerns a track that’s become a modern classic of sampling, entirely thanks to one producer: Clams Casino, one of the chief architects of the dreamy, blown-out […]
