“I worked a lot with Tame Impala and MGMT, so it was just like, the people I finally wanted to work with… These are the people I grew up with, these are the people I admire.” “I was working a lot with Lana Del Rey for the past two years,” Rocky told Beats 1’s Zane Lowe. Lauryn Hill (sampled on a song with Frank Ocean!), FKA twigs, Kid Cudi, Puff Daddy, Dev Hynes, Skepta, Snoop Dogg, Playboi Carti, French Montana, and Moby, whose “Porcelain” provides the foundation for advance single “ A$AP Forever.” And those are just the collaborators who made the cut. The tracklist includes lots of big names like Frank Ocean (twice!), Ms. He made that abundantly clear earlier this week when he locked himself in a translucent cage for a performance art piece announcing Testing, a new album out today. “And I guess initially, I was like, Man, did my crowd, did my cult following forget how to mosh? How to slam dance, how to fucking crowd surf, how to go all out? I mean obviously I’m the pretty motherfucker but for real, I like to go crazy in a mosh, that’s what I came here for! As soon as I got here, I went straight to the mosh pit, I didn’t even come in this dressing room.After the 2015 release of A$AP Rocky’s At.$AP, the rapper laid low - sharing a few one-off singles, picking up a feature here and there, contributing to various A$AP Mob projects - but now he’s back in full force. I kind of forgot that’s the same thing that happened with my album prior: I put it out, people fucked with it, and then throughout time people are, ‘Oh my God, this is a masterpiece,'” Rocky said. “Yeah, it was inspired by me feeling emotionally discouraged after I put out my album and I felt like the masses didn’t get it at the start. In an interview with GQ after the fourth annual Yams Day, Rocky describes how the reception to his third studio album inspired the name of his current tour, Injured Generation. The project was another creative left turn for Rocky after the psychedelic, LSD-inspired experimentation of his sophomore album, At. A$AP Rocky’s Testing didn’t fare as well as his previous solo albums both critically and commercially.
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