It definitely wasn't the perfect release: while A$AP Rocky's immaculate, snake-like flow was in tact, he wore his influences on his sleeve very clearly, and his themes never really deviated too much.
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In much the same way was a lot of Live Love A$AP. At the same time though, Lil B was passionate about the music he was making. Lil B was enormously sloppy when it came to writing, sometimes when you read the lyrics you could feel when he just put the pen down and took a break before he got back to it, and you never get the sense of that connection again. That's always a bit concerning considering where he began as a rapper: On his first mixtape Live Love A$AP, he gave shouts out to Lil B, a rapper whose sole goal of his music is to make himself and his listeners joyous. We don't get that sense from A$AP Rocky on this track, as Rocky prefers to live his existence in this post-Drake post-Jay world of dissociation from joy.
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And in the case of A$AP Ferg, joy overflows when he's rapping because we get the sense Ferg enjoys rapping. It's not a great line, especially it follows an Outkast name-drop that aligns with Rocky's, but hip hop is also a lot about how a rapper will say the things that he says. A$AP Ferg hops on the track yelling about how he's going to eat rappers “like cookies – chips ahoy!”. Now the comparison may be unfair Gunplay has made some of the best rap anthems in the last year with his ideal mixture of the aggression of Waka Flocka with a touch of Young Dro-isms, but lets be a little more fair in the world of comparisons. Gunplay comes off like an aggressive drill Sargent, raging “'til my cardiacs arrested and my 40 oz is empty/show me what you owe me and a porterhouse with that”. Now compare that to verses by Gunplay and even A$AP Ferg.
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Themes are repeated – his mouth is full of gold, name drops of classic rappers, all of it done in a way that doesn't too much. However, what is the main concern of his rapping is the content. A$AP isn't a bad rapper, he has a very good handle on rhythm. When I hear the bonus track “Ghetto Symphony”, the flaws in A$AP Rocky, and ultimately his album Long Live A$AP, become very explicitly clear.
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Got rappers on my entre, eat em like COOKIES. Review Summary: Rocky gon' spit it like Andre, I'm goin' kill it like Big Boi.