A$AP Rocky spoke to Billboard following his performance at Samsung’s Milk Music Lounge during SXSW in Austin, Texas.
Rocky revealed a few of the artists that will appear on his sophomore studio album, which is tentatively titled A.L.L.A., and spoke about the success of his new movie, Dope.
Rocky said that the follow up to 2013’s Long. Live. A$AP. is finished.
“I’m mastering it right now,” he told Billboard. “It’s coming soon.”
Rocky didn’t expand on whether or not the album would be released in a surprise manner, but he did say fans will be surprised about “how diverse it is.”
“People really don’t know the other side of me,” he said. “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,” he continued. “At least that’s how I see it.”
Rocky has enlisted Lykke Li, Juicy J and Clams Casino for the album. He also revealed that a song he recorded with FKA Twigs – three years ago – will be featured, as well.
The Puff Daddy and Pharrell Williams–produced movie that Rocky recently starred in inspired the rapper-turned-actor to live a healthier lifestyle.
“For Dope I really got it together: I wasn’t smoking. I was sober. I tried to gain weight to not look like myself,” he said. “I lost the weight eventually, but I still got my belly. I think it’ll be a Hip Hop classic, and we haven’t had one of those in so long.”
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I feel sorry for every rapper after To Pimp a Butterfly dropped. The pressure and bar has risen 1,000,000 times.
So Help Me God will dismantle TPAB easily. #AllHailYeezus
this nigga wore a dress, nothing else has to ever be said about dude
Awesome! nice to see an artist changing and evolving.
im excited to hear his new album
make some Poet song #LordFlacko
Wtf has gainng weight hot yo do with the album? Talking bout his belly lol
Tetsuo and youth is bar for bar a better album, it’s also better conceptually. I love me some Kendrick, but the dickriding on this site, that includes the staff, is ridiculous. Tetsuo should have got a 5, instead of a 4.5.
He is just a boring rehash of boast rap garbage, this kid is annoying. Everything is always self proclaimed “I’m universal”, “my work is classic”. It’s all a bunch of shit, it’s like these people’s so called *talent* exists exclusively in their own minds.
This kid has barely any material out yet acts like he is some mega accomplished star lol. Please dazzle us with more voice changing software or “hold up hold up”. Or maybe that high pitched occasional word stuff like Snoop was doing 25 years ago…..Lame.