A day after his performance at the House of Blues, A$AP Rocky went to WGCI Chicago’s “The Morning Riot” with Tony Sculfield, where he discussed embracing the generation of artists that came before him.
“That’s the thing about A$AP. We’re a collective,” explained Rocky. “Basically, we embrace the essence of 90s Hip Hop, the pioneers that did it before us.”
“That’s why the old heads mess with us young cats,” he added. “‘Cause young cats, they ignorant and they don’t even acknowledge the fact these guys paved the way for young cats like us to be able to do what we do. And they don’t realize that subconsciously they were influenced by these people and they grew up on these people, and they just feel like they don’t have to pay no homage.”
A$AP Rocky went on to explain that various biases are the biggest problem in Hip Hop. “I feel like Hip Hop is one of the most biased genres. It’s hypocritical – it can be. They discriminate against people who don’t necessarily come from bad, poor living situations – poverty. They discriminate against gay people. They discriminate against people that didn’t have to go through the same circumstances that they had to.”
“They’re missing the point. Music is supposed to inspire. It’s not just about, ‘Oh, I came from the hood.’ …That’s nonsense.”
Watch the interview below, spotted at fakeshoredrive.com:
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mad corny i aint never heard or seen niggas in harlem making texas music these must be geeks who stayed inside on the internet
“I aint never heard or seen…”
This is exactly the kind of discrimination he’s talking about. Do you have no sense of irony.
You ain’t never heard or seen, maybe because you were never in Harlem?
Finally a rapper who makes some sense
too bad his whole crew is garbage and his album gonna flop
real talk, I don’t bump his music much but he makes some real fuckin sense there, too much bullshit in hip-hop, discrimination from the artists AND the fans.. to me music is music. I’m not gonna be anti-pop like some elitist faggot or turned off by some rapper that doesn’t spit from the hood or isn’t super metaphorically lyrical
If you listen to rappers like this clown then you’re worse than hip hop elitists. Because atleast they search for dope music, unlike fans like you who just dickride whatever is popular.
^wtf? he said he doesnt even listen to a$ap. youre probably some dumbass that only listens to “real hip hop”. cant you just chill out and enjoy music no matter who makes it?
@Shocked: You’re analogy is all wrong, real hip hop is listened to on the basis of It not mattering who made It but whether Its good. Only listening to real hip hop is a good thing because listening choices would range from older mainstream artists like Eric B. & Rakim to newer lesser known acts like Clear Soul Forces. The term Real Hip Hop is often confused by many as underground which is absolute bullshit, because Wu Tang is not underground.
call it good music then. quality doesnt determine how “real” a song is. the shittiest wannabe club bang is still as much hip hop as anything by the guys you named. its just the name of a genre.
only listening to real hip-hop makes you close-minded, period.
there’s a wide variety in real hip-hop, no doubt. it’s when you start shittin on everything else like it’s some Justin Bieber music that we got a problem. and hip-hop has a big issue pertaining to that.
They sound futuristic as hell, not 90s
^^^^^^^^^^
exactly
EXACTLY
Not really a fan of his music but I gotta him some props for this.
This bitch’s face makes me wanna puke.
this dudes music is straight trash but he is 1000% right about this… first thing he’s ever said that i think is intelligent
Rocky makes a whole lot of sense here. That is the problem with hip hop fans. You have mainstream fans completely ignorant of everything that is going on. You have real hip hop purist that don’t listen to anything if there are more than 10 people bumping it. You have the bandwagoners that abandon artists as soon as they get some shine. It’s ridiculous. People are still stuck up on the way people look in 2012? Thought we were supposed to be progressing
best comment on here. mad respect.
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Honestly he’s a young new rapper that obviously isn’t afraid to speak his mind and he’s honest, gotta respect that. I really don’t listen to a lot of his stuff except his work with schoolboyQ and his Goldie and Brand New Guy records. He brought out Percy at Coachella thats dope. Hope he keeps doing his thing.
I agree, A$AP Rocky, Schoolboy, Kendrick are all dope.
my playlist right now……
Hay- BJ The chicago Kid
The recipe- Kendrick Dr Dre
XXX- Danny Brown
Street Knock- Swizz Beats feat A$AP Rocky
Cats and Dogs- Game feat Kobe
21 Gun Salute- DPG
I love Rap and HipHop as long as it’s dope!!!!
^no one cares what you listen to
dont tell me you wouldnt tap angie martinez in the butt. lookin all hot in that pic.
IS THIS GUY ACTUALLY SMART???
NO!!!
Wow real shit
Goldie is the best song right now. If you are gettin hyphy like me you know whats up, party on.
A$AP rocky is dope, his music is dope, if you don’t like it you dont have proper hearing or your brain doesnt fckin work right, some down syndrome ass kids.
A$AP Rocky is wise beyond his years.
By the way what he is talking to is what I call generational bias. I tell people all the time that hip hop suffers from this type of bias more than any other type of music. Rock and pop fans embrace their classics. Hip hop has always been about the freshest new big thing. In the 80s, a song was called stale if it was 6 months old. Now that hip hop is like 35 years old or so (maybe even older depending who you talk to), you would think we would be be past that stage.
I blame a lot of older heads for being resistant to young artists music. Its almost like a lot of older hip hop fans lost touch of innovation. Then again, their is a lot of bitch, R&B that people try to pass as hip hop. Drake doesnt help.
amateur az camera work man! da fuk is up?
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