A$AP Rocky likened Rap to the dramatized sport of wrestling during his recent CRWN interview with Hip Hop journalist Elliott Wilson.
“Rap is the new wrestling,” he said in front of a live audience at the Tribeca Film Festival Tuesday (April 21).
According to The Wall Street Journal, Rocky claimed rappers are following a new set of rules where they establish a weird moniker, come up with a quirky saying, then wait for the world to pay attention.
A year ago, Rocky’s friend and business partner A$AP Yams called 2014 “the worst year of rap music ever,” a sentiment Rocky agreed with. Now, the A$AP Mob frontman said he’s more selective with who he works with.
“I can’t do no records with people who, creatively, I don’t see eye to eye with,” he said.
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Rap is the new wrestling! As in WWE? ASAP is confused because a few weeks ago at a Bagel Shop in London on video you stated that you were going to “him him” however all you did was run your mouth and the man told you to do it! So again, is this wrestling in Rap referring to your actions to fuck boy?
It’s wrestling in rap cuz soccer practice punks turn hip hop experts like you have voices in the culture. You have no heroes to fall back on so you need rappers to be superhuman so you can shut them down. You hate that you can actually like music & not gave to be interested in who beefing with who, who divorcing who, or who exposing who. Rappers can’t release albums on the same day without fans like punk ass Shaun who puts two rappers up in steel cages to compete. You think Tribe Called quest could have released Midnight Marauders on the same day as Wu Tang 36 Chambers without fans like Soccer Practice Shaun making them fight in a steal cage, or you think Tupac could release All Eyes on Me the same day Fugees dropped the Score while soccer practice Shaun has a heart attack that you can actually drop a classic Multi platinum selling album without tarnishing hip hop culture cuz soccer practice Shaun grew up on Rugrats & not He Man. It’s fans like Soccer Practice Shaun who ruined hip hop culture making it him vs. him instead of liking the damn music & shutting the hell up
Eat a dick
Damn shaun, stfu i guess.
this is the most intelligent thing ive ever heard this dude say! Rap is a huge joke that no one takes seriously anymore.
Rap is the new wrestling? He’s right though. Wrestling is fake thus rap is indeed fake as well.