Rocky has also directed music videos for himself, Danny Brown and other ASAP Mob members. ASAP, which was also well received by critics and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. He subsequently recorded his 2013 debut album Long. The success of his mixtape led to a record deal with Polo Grounds Music, RCA Records, and Sony Music Entertainment. He is a member of the hip hop collective ASAP Mob, from which he adopted his moniker. Rakim Mayers (born October 3, 1988), better known by his stage name, ASAP Rocky (stylized as A$AP Rocky), is an American rapper from Harlem, New York City. From home videos and interviews with friends and family, to the very first seminal moments of his career caught on tape, Rocky takes viewers behind the scenes into his life as he takes A$AP from Harlem, to the world. AT.$AP came out in 2015, followed by TESTING in 2018, each moving progressively further away from pop without slipping on the charts."SVDDXNLY" chronicles the ascension of one of raps brightest young stars, A$AP Rocky. By the time he released his first full-length, 2013’s $AP, he’d already toured with Drake and performed at the Pitchfork Music Festival, straddling mainstream and indie without pulling a muscle. Everywhere he went, from Sotheby’s on down, it seemed like Rocky belonged.īorn Rakim Mayers in 1988, Rocky fell in with the Harlem-based A$AP Mob in his late teens-a collective that, like Odd Future in Los Angeles, functioned as much like a creative agency as a rap crew, bringing a sense of self-sufficiency and independence to the mainstream machine. He made albums the way interior designers made rooms: unlikely juxtapositions, interesting connections.
He was Gucci, he was street, he was New York without the burden of having to carry that New York torch. More than just a rapper, though, Rocky was a representation of a next-gen model of hip-hop, a post-internet artist who synthesized decades of rap history into a sound that was seamless, catchy, mainstream but with a sense of style that felt elevated. Still, the moment felt like a landmark, a measure of cultural influence that few rappers had attained.
That Rocky moved in arty, high-society circles wasn’t news: He’d done the fashion thing, gone to the Met Gala, collaborated with Raf Simons when Simons was at Dior. In 2018, A$AP Rocky staged a “performance installation” called Lab Rat on the seventh floor of venerated auction house Sotheby’s.
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