★★★★★
Like the rest of the A$AP Mob, ASAP Ferg has a command on lean-soaked ego builders. After a slow-rolling intro courtesy of ASAP Yams, Ferg's debut LP, Trap Lord , opens with a spray of gunfire. "Kill that motherfucka with the magnum .44/ 'bout a jump snump, nigga, magnum on the road," Ferg aggressively cuts through the backing crawl of "Let It Go"...
- consequenceofsound.net
2013-09-04
★★★★★
It doesn't take long to reach the heart of 'Trap Lord', the debut album from A$AP Mob member A$AP Ferg. Following the success of A$AP Rocky's 'F*ckin' Problems' single and 'Long. Live. A$AP' album, Ferg wants to rub it in your face - "it" being the Mob's popularity, or other things, according to 'Trap Lord' songs '4:02' and 'Dump Dump'. On the surface, 'Trap Lord' is a straightforward procession of decadent trunk rattlers and brash rhymes...
- www.clashmusic.com
2013-08-29
★★★★★
Fresh off his Australian appearances with A$AP Rocky, A$AP Ferg has finally unleashed the highly anticipated Trap Lord. Ferg's full-length debut sees the Harlem native establish himself as not only a frontrunner in the A$AP Mob, but an animated and accomplished solo artist. The album kicks off with the apocalyptic swing of Let It Go, a track that's full of violent bravado and thuggish threats, while rattling hi-hats and eerie production lace this standout cut...
- www.beat.com.au
2013-08-27
★★★★★
The mixtape turned debut album from A$AP Ferg has been a long time coming. While it's somewhat unusual nowadays to see a rapper release a debut album without first releasing a mixtape, Ferg has been gaining recognition mainly through features, and by mere association with fellow rapper A$AP Rocky, whose debut album leapt to the top of the billboard charts in January of this year...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-08-27
★★★★★
The mixtape turned debut album from A$AP Ferg has been a long time coming. While it's somewhat unusual nowadays to see a rapper release a debut album without first releasing a mixtape, Ferg has been gaining recognition mainly through features, and by mere association with fellow rapper A$AP Rocky, whose debut album leapt to the top of the billboard charts in January of this year...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-09-05
★★★★★
It's been a little less than eight months since A$AP Rocky released Long.Live.A$AP, his much-hyped, much-delayed major label debut. Tepidness aside, Rocky's album was an undeniable blockbuster: Long.Live.A$AP debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts and spawned a platinum single in "Fuckin Problems." More importantly, it proved that the so-called "post-internet model" -- the Y2K-enabled phenomenon of assembling sounds and influences on the basis of taste, rather than geographical loyalties --...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2013-08-26
★★★★★
This Harlem-bred MC is more an interior designer than a master carpenter, a rapper whose real gift isn't rapping but curating sound. No surprise coming from a member of the A$AP Mob crew, whose fashion choices get as much attention as their music. Slow, silky and menacing, with twists of eccentricity, his debut is a finely constructed mood piece - say it ties the room together.
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-08-27
★★★★★
Darold Ferguson Jr.-- best known as A$AP Ferg, a member of A$AP Rocky's A$AP Mob-- brings a tantalizing skillset to the table, a startling versatility and an electricity that not even his more famous friend can touch. He sings (see his star-making debut on Rocky's "Kissin' Pink"), he can write (take his bendy, gleeful "Shabba"), and he's weird-- when he's feeling purple, he channels his inner Fergenstein, a lewder, more hedonistic persona...
- pitchfork.com
2013-08-22
★★★★★
New York hasn't had a Wu-Tang quality rap dynasty in quite awhile. Hell, even a Dipset quality one would be nice. In recent years, the city that birthed hip-hop and spawned several of its reigning champions has all but admitted rap game defeat, beset on all sides by Southern swagger, Chi-town cool, Cali sheen, and, believe-it-or-not, Toronto chic...
- thequietus.com
2013-08-23