★★★★★
Just a few years ago it would have been difficult for a still-emerging major label rap artist to get away with what A$AP Rocky has. He's all aesthetic, and his aesthetic is breaking all the rules. Rocky's first major label release reflects this. It's a flamboyant, confident debut from an artist whose entire career is defined by a post-rap sensibility...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
RCA buzzmaker A$AP Rocky has released his highly-anticipated major label debut, LONG.LIVE.A$AP. Included on the album are DJBooth-featured selections "Goldie," "F*ckin Problem" and the set's recently-released title track.
Making guest appearances on the LP are 2 Chainz, Action Bronson, Big K.R.I.T., Drake, Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q, Yelawolf and more, while Hit-Boy, Jim Jonsin, Noah "40" Shebib, T-Minus and other A-list producers check-in with production credits...
- www.djbooth.net
2013-04-01
★★★★★
A$AP Rocky is the ultimate internet rap success story. His career took off in 2010, when his business partner A$AP Yams started realniggatumblr. The blog built a brand by covering street rap from all regions from a distinctly New York perspective and by being basically the gulliest voice on the internet. Journalistic integrity wasn't a strong suit; the business connection between Yams and Rocky wasn't always apparent even as it began pushing Rocky as an artist. But the blog worked...
- www.thelineofbestfit.com
2013-02-11
★★★★★
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Rakim Mayers was never meant to be underground. He doesn't have the penchant for introspection or self-deprecation that one finds with rap's cult figures...
- prettymuchamazing.com
2013-02-11
★★★★★
Release Date: January 15, 2013 "Always Strive And Prosper" is one of the many meanings behind Rakim Mayers moniker " A$AP Rocky". After his mix tape titled LiveLoveA$AP was released in 2011 to critical acclaim and a record deal with Sony, A$AP proved to the word he could live up to his own acronym. Despite his success in 2011, the following year A$AP was arrested for assaulting two men at a clothing store in New York, who (allegedly) had filmed A$AP doing illegal drugs...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-02-07
★★★★★
Long live the overwrought rap album intro. That crucial opening track has been, since time immemorial, the home for cinematic skits, for call-outs to the haters, for profane shouts to the wilderness and the ether that the star of the album is not what you've designed him to be, that in fact the natural rules of death and grief and humiliation do not now apply to him nor have they ever, and that he has come to take what is rightfully his, which is the game and sex and money and the world and...
- cokemachineglow.com
2013-02-06
★★★★★
There are few debut albums that come steeped in as much hype as A$AP Rocky's major-label debut. After releasing his critically-acclaimed mixtape Llive.Long.A$AP in 2011, the Harlem rapper was shortlisted for BBC Sound of 2012 and was considered by many music critics to be the next big thing.
Another year has passed since then and another list of artists set to dominate the New Year have materialised, but finally - after several scrapped release dates - A$AP Rocky's debut has arrived...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-02-01
★★★★★
Release Date: January 15th, 2013 New York rapper A$AP Rocky is a rapper I've been hearing about for awhile, but I never got into hip-hop until the latter half of 2012, so I'm aware I'm a bit late on the bandwagon, you could say. Regardless, I have seen ads for Rocky's new video for the second single on his label debut record Long.Live.ASAP "F**kin' Problems," which features Drake, 2 Chainz, and the wonderful Kendrick Lamar, whom I've been buzzing about for awhile, as a lot of critics have...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-01-30
★★★★★
A$AP Rocky Long.Live.A$AP New York seems to be on the lookout for its next lyrical messiah. The zeal enveloping wunderkind boom-bap rap collective Progressive Era--particularly the razor sharp wit and lyricism of their 17 year old front man Joey Bada$$--proves it. The recent proliferation of husky voiced, hard-core grime spitters like Action Bronson proves it. And the inexorable hype surrounding the protracted release of Long.Live.A$AP proves it...
- www.thevine.com.au
2013-01-23
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