Rapper A$AP Rocky (Extended Cut)

you know we want you to be in bookings again what's it like being a tie rakhie in 2018 my god you know what I got a couple of gray hairs growing yeah like that I'm embracing them you know this is kind of crazy but telling me something like yeah I'm involved in the life I would say I matured throughout the years yeah yeah for sure when was it that cuz I like the tumbler came out like and put you on a map with the peso and a purple swag and [ __ ] like at that point did you know like yo this this is we got something going on yet no I'm a cone clean that whole time with the whole tumbler that was already but it's like he was like a big tumbler name already he developed his name and I was like I used to talk to this dude all the time online message boards and [ __ ] and didn't know and I know we work and I have my blog and he's reading my [ __ ] and I'm reading his tumblr and then like years later he finds me his eye that's you that's crazy wait wait yes it was Victor always I think it askew word and they say y'all follow my uncle Merrill [ __ ] my numbers was like boy that's God word up man yeah he was just like sneak our stuff in there I ain't even know he had affiliation with me enough to so work I mean so he was like making the moves and making the connects and stuff here cuz his his something we used to get reblog a lot so like different like on smash that pit back in the days there you buddy some sometimes even sauce with repost like a lot of he had a lot of vintage photos or like rappers that show never see gotta collect these old excel by magazines and you just be like yo I like this kid from Harlem but I don't know where you from it might be Texas might be late he put that out there cuz he trying to anyone know me like that we don't know Matt like this relevant [ __ ] yeah just put me in the mix of it people like this so it worked and then you seen a doing numbers are you didn't say my god damn she's got like a million plus views like imma come clean I was just happy that like people who's [ __ ] with it yeah yeah like I was just happy because me I pride myself like but being a great artist and even back then you know when you don't have really no credentials and not in the show for it no accomplishments you could become discouraging but I was just that was my trophy and Grammy you still feel that way yeah you still loved me doing music I love it I love everything I'm doing yeah music change since I came in a little bit but I still love it was it feel like to go from like a hot young actor like now you're like an OG let me go look up to you like yo can I open for you but they've been looking up to me since I came in type [ __ ] no consider she right so I mean if the shoe fits you I mean there's a difference between I'm looking up to you like musically but now you are an established you've been out here for a minute they'll keep you I was like I grew up on a Sabbath now facts that just made me feel old like you guys [Laughter] [Laughter] you gotta ask about this the Funkmaster Flex thing going on right now yes but master flex said a lot of people stole your swag get your shower and your look you feel yeah you agree with this I do you do I believe you had a tweet saying fax my look this yeah I'm their way into the game like you know getting again you gotta have like braised and or dreadlocks go teeth you know me charisma and you gotta have a fashion sense everybody try to at least that one right and I feel like before us there was people were fashion and we're not producing like Kanye or Farrelly something like that or puffed before that now that's standard I am no you gotta have some type of freshness you know that we brought that back in the hip-hop but aside from fashion goes you know just the way that like the mountain song where I will pitch my voices and just the nuances or my beat selections or the way I produce songs I feel like a lot of you know kids that come up now inherited that but with that being said that's what I do it for you know I'm not trying to point down on them or whatever I know who flexors is like directly talking right right probably like established artists who have no right or business doing that kind of stuff from contemporary artists but it is what it is living in a day in town where none of this [ __ ] matters anyway so it's all smiles yeah you know do explain cities uninitiated people and in the flyover States what's it like growing up in the New York in New York City in Harlem in the 90s [ __ ] man it was late you know I was backing for from Harlem nor the Bronx so it speaking of the x-men like you just every time I think about the Bronx I just think about like the key days for it is like [ __ ] taking no faces and whatever the case was bamboo earrings from girls and just leathers and Pelley's and that was my error names like yo if you want to key to skate keys over make sure you walk back to Hong with your block and it was a shootout yeah like we started one to the train stations it's like a fellow and I'll carry them the whole you can have a scuffle it's him wants to get that scope Ahola was you to take I was ain't gonna front man cuz I was a little [ __ ] up growing up join just went when we when our ship and get really dirty don't don't judge me for this oh you're not take that across we cover eight so let's go we used to take the white shoe [Laughter] kids facts get that toothbrush a clue you see you tonight man you have a lot of fashion looks are there any look back in with like a my wallet hell yeah you yeah you know I can't really remember more jump but sometimes I'm looking through these magazines or like online and I'm like what the [ __ ] was that by the time he was like I was waiting at the time I probably thought it was little Sam but like people apparently still think some of that [ __ ] is late and I was like what the [ __ ] I don't think you see you like a lot of that [ __ ] oh man it's dead for a lot of it okay so you've gone from rapper to just like running stuff you you were what you were I'm a brand visionary food was a few a few yeah yeah I never even visited yet rhyming is my first year man yeah nah we gotta do like a movie of you bags that's so you never what you never visited all my family comes I never visited man they never had a real job you know it's crazy though cuz all of the family that's like left over and Barbados they're much older yeah you know so all the youngest generation they all day over here so you know do the older generation to a nollie what you're doing or they just kind of like don't get it or it's a lot of aunties and grant aunties and [ __ ] they'll go [ __ ] about that [ __ ] these is proud that you know they could say Rianna know they know relative cheaper more Beto's and then when you some little brunt over there I don't even gotta send no chicken that's how you gotta realize man is one of them situations with like if poor people are happy in so many conditions maybe if you go to Africa if you go to like Brazil you go to so many third world countries you see how many poor people are like so happy in their circumstances granted my grandmama weather send what they need to buy I haven't even met a lot of my family over there I got a lot of relatives the cake take care of in America to be really sure and I know that sounds funky but you know I could tell like you know I never been there from stories they tell me it's just everybody's happy yeah the floor is clean you could pick up like food if you dropped it and eat it up a lot of smiles it's different [ __ ] is different the women a beautiful they said like the water you can see through it live in a place you've gone to only have money a couple years now where have you been that your career is taking you that you were like wow I never expected to be at this country or whatever or any places what's them in the most mind-blowing mind-blowing place this Korres taking you to conservative mainstream white America yeah yeah cuz they see you and they like I love people and I think the thing that really separates everybody you know it's just understanding most of the time we just don't understand he says I'm so much the generational thing it's a racial thing it's a you know it's a man and female they just like it's a sex thing as human beings human nature we we kind of don't understand each other like that you know and I think me my journey with this whole thing is developing as a human being and trying to evolve because you know life is so fun and sweet I think it's just like trying to stay in tune was really and trying to be realistic about things like when you encounter what other people people who have no business listening to you and that comes from wing-like you do drugs that's like not common in the hood and you take a risk to do LSD and and everybody looking at you like a crack cake because they the Philly it with methods you I don't know anything other than bud is like y'all yo what is that heroin yeah you know it's just like being from Harlem but chillin in Soho and chillin with the Spanish white Asian Indian black kids I'm not just saying it's really you know how a million part you go to a party in Williamsburg right now or your friends gonna be there's different social backgrounds yeah and the [ __ ] gonna Steve Tiger dude in like a tuning kameen it's a home and I would say like post me like pre pre ASAT Rocky I didn't see that a lot like a lot of people that's like outside of a culture you know there are people who don't listen to rap that come up to me in like the three-piece suits and the only way to like Wall Streets of working is just like yo you're my only rapper I listen to like thank you for what you do that kind of [ __ ] right there is just like what makes me be like damn you listen to me like you look like you and your 50s and you know like you don't like [ __ ] with none of this rap if you have those moments when people come to you like y'all my favorite rapper you just like yes yo you know honestly I do bro that [ __ ] is like a grammy professional like a trophy like an Oscar man I mean so much cuz you work so if you worked on this jacket all day every day and somebody come and give you a little critique bad or good you're just happy that they knows they've not but you know that's it and I'm never too cocky and too famous to admit that I'm so happy when people come and acknowledge and tell me keep going cuz that's what I do it for if not I might as well just stop you know you a minute people I am you know I'm saying like for example like yams day the one that just passed yeah you went in the crowd yeah Berlin you in the crowd with the chains on the [ __ ] and everyone focuses wildly like jumping into a pillow like he didn't even get to get Lee how are you supposed other than that man like that's just the spirit that ASAP from to the game yeah you know other people do it too in their own ways and stuff that's what I like about hip-hop if you look at a lot of these shows the kids that's coming up its standing you have the crowd sir we came in crowd surfing because it was just like a punk rock and you know mentality it's just like you feel me like it was just like one of those things slam dancing mosh pit we were watch our skate videos and the clips and we would go to clubs and this is the [ __ ] we saw so when you making your music and it's not all about just like looking cool sometimes you need to get outraged you need to get out emotion like that you're not really worried about looking cool for the [ __ ] or whatever the case or the pitches you just like [ __ ] [Laughter] Eddie was the next album coming out ASAP [Laughter] ahem were you that you drop oh that's a new aesthetic it's like the leaning tower you mean and that's how you finish [Laughter] what you think it is that's what you order at the Chinese alright what else are you working on cuz I'll you out you have a vision you got an eye for fashion we are we talking museums hotel for sure oh well we were developing a design and I can't talk too much about it but like one of the first manhattan morals you know not only that we're also I was creative director in TB labs hmm you know that's what was that yes so you know I'm gonna get like have I kind of want to have multiple things going on at once multiple endeavors you know I think uh is good to keep myself busy sometimes different commodities and entities is so many moving parts alright last question it's well [Music] all right I need you to do this for the culture someone's coming up as a Bronx a good outfit okay that's appropriate okay [Laughter] [Music] there's got to be major we gotta be 30th out my gray hairs black did you expect to live to 30 no I didn't know what life will beep I thought I was gonna have a baby to about 25 if I live past 25 and I didn't know what life would look or seem like past 25 you know I'm sorry no no no I found that not found that's been a problem that I know from people in New York I'm sorry like you didn't expect to live past certain age and once you pass that I'm like the black how do you know 34 okay Odie right alcohol 26 okay okay good I was I was like hey with the chain running my six-year-old right now is dragging to tie up a hill on make it close for you if you want to deal with in concern fashion almost you know man decent get cheese food like yeah no they forgot Mandy's they said let's sit down on stream are early dandy that's like a rainbow that was before rainbow was mainly rainbow strawberry bomb beanie oh no I need snow you go when you get 20 pennies for flowers polyester and it's just saying do not wear water once you make it in East infection your own saying but like you sent me happy [Laughter] [ __ ] we should say don't bother 20 30 is the new 20 I may be uh I'll let you guys pick man oh yeah we never even never thought about the rainbow what should a rainbow say see this is dope all right they ass be like all right all right new album out new music out a set where's that too on the nose too regular I mean I always like the the acronym ASAP always striving prosper I was always motivational to me as so you want go with that oh why don't we put testin testin the name of the upcoming album yes yes faster justice papa now but you all know what is coming out of the office [Applause] mom hey [Applause] you watching the decent my own YouTube channel stupid click to watch more videos and clips subscribe please please please click and comment [Music]

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Length: 22min 46sec (1366 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 17 2018