Cyrus Langhorne
A$AP Mob's A$AP Rocky recently talked about his new album, A.L.L.A., and how experimental the long-awaited sophomore LP will be.
According to Rocky, he secluded himself for half a year to work on the new LP.
“A.L.L.A. — it stands for the title of my album. I just don’t want to give out the title yet. The A.L.L.A. is because I was named after the God MC himself, Rakim Allah. And, I’m just basically saying it’s a return of the real shit. I’m not here to swag it out. I ain’t here catwalk it. I’m here to just do me and if y’all don’t like my shit — f*ck it. I’m on me so hard right now. I’m making music and experimenting, making sounds that I never even knew existed. Not to make it sound like this album is going to be a circus in a box or something. But I really pushed myself this time. I secluded myself [for] 6 months. In another country with the phones off.” (VIBE)
Check out A$AP’s interview on the next page…
Recently, A$AP said he had quietly pieced together and finished his new LP.
“Honestly, it’s finished. I’m mastering it right now. It’s coming soon. Seriously soon,” A$AP said in an interview. “[Surprise albums?] I don’t consider it a surprise — you put it out there and it’s art, that’s the surprise. I hope people are surprised by my album. I don’t know what to expect, I just do what I do.” (Billboard)
Rocky also dished on what fans would most likely be surprised by from the new LP.
“How diverse it is,” Rocky said when asked what will surprise fans. “People really don’t know the other side of me. The deeper side, the more musical side, the more intellectual side. When I first came on the scene it was more of this trendy, bourgeois, pizazz attitude. That’s still me but at the end of the day I think that kind of overshadowed the whole purpose of me doing what I do. I’m an incredibly diverse artist, I’m a universal artist. At least that’s how I see it.” (Billboard)
Three 6 Mafia’s Juicy J broke big news about working on A$AP’s upcoming sophomore album in January.
Gues what?
— juicy j (@therealjuicyj) January 30, 2015
I'm co excutive prod @asvpxrocky new album it's gone be classic
— juicy j (@therealjuicyj) January 30, 2015
That’s disrespectful. To call an album that you know has foul language and satanic themes, after our Creator, (ALLAH), is not only disrespectful, but a HUGE SIN!
True brother, but at the end of the day no true Muslim will be listening to his music anyway.
It doesn’t matter if you listen to his Music Ahki. It’s the fact that many people will see that disrespectful title and feel like they can get away with disrespecting our LORD, who we prostate to night and day! It’s like saying let me make a cartoon with Prophet Muhammed doing gay things, and saying we shouldn’t get mad because Muslims wouldn’t watch that bad cartoon! There are certain things Unacceptable and my message to any Muslim is to not let any artist or actor or politician, anybody period, disrespect Islam! Nor should we disrespect anybody else’s religion!
Well said brother, inshallah.
Fuxk Allah And fuxk all religion too
Don’t worry they’ll see you soon unless you apologize for disrespecting your LORD!!!
Fuxk the lord religion licks balls
FUXK RELIGION
Not Islam!!!!
The world will be destroyed by idiots who believe in fairy tales