Three years after releasing AT. LONG. LAST. A$AP, A$AP Rocky has reemerged with a new album titled Testing.
The A$AP Mob member’s third solo LP includes 15 tracks with production by Clams Casino, Jim Jonsin, Hector Delgado, Dean Blunt, Nez & Rio and Rico Love, among others.
Rocky enlists vocal contributions from Puff Daddy, Juicy J, Kid Cudi, Kodak Black, Frank Ocean, BlocBoy JB, French Montana, Snoop Dogg, Skepta, Smooky Margielaa, FKA Twigs, Moby, T.I. and Dev Hynes.
View Rocky’s Testing stream, cover art and tracklist below.
1. Distorted Records
2. A$AP Forever f. Kid Cudi, T.I. & Moby
3. Tony Tone f. Puff Daddy
4. Fukk Sleep f. FKA Twigs
5. Praise The Lord (Da Shine) f. Skepta
6. Drop$ f. Kodak Black
7. Buck Shots f. Playboi Carti & Smooky Margielaa
8. Gunz N Butter f. Juicy J
9. Brotha Man f. French Montana, Frank Ocean & Snoop Dogg
10. OG Beeper f. BlocBoy JB
11. Kids Turned Out Fine
12. Hun43rd f. Dev Hynes
13. Changing
14. Black Tux, White Collar
15. Purity f. Frank Ocean & Lauryn Hill
(The previous version of this article was published on May 21, 2018 and can be found below.)
A$AP Rocky’s long-awaited Testing album is dropping on Friday (May 25). A day after revealing he’d finished the LP and sharing its cover art, Lord Flocko announced the release date via Instagram.
“525,” he wrote as the caption to a picture featuring two men displaying those same numbers with their fingers.
Testing will be Rocky’s first album since 2015’s AT. LONG. LAST. A$AP.
(The previous version of this article was published on May 21, 2018 at 7:51 a.m. PST and can found below.)
A$AP Rocky has been teasing an album called Testing for some time now, and it appears the LP is finally ready for release.
Lord Flocko hit Instagram on Sunday night (May 20) to unveil the album’s cover art and reveal that the project is finished.
A leaked image shared by famed Hip Hop journalist Elliott Wilson also lists Kid Cudi, Skepta and electronica giant Moby as guest features. The latter appears on Rocky’s recently released single, “A$AP Forever.”
During an interview with GQ back in October, Rocky spoke on the premise for his new album.
“My new album is really about testing new sounds,” he said at the time. “People are scared to test new sounds, so they go with what’s current ‘cause it’s the easy thing to do. The top 100 songs sound a certain way. People cater more to that because it’s a bigger demographic behind that, or it’s a guaranteed demographic behind that. I prefer to experiment and have my crowd grow with me and to reach new crowds. I don’t just rap—I actually make music. That’s why it takes time. These sonics represent me.”
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Rocky has been releasing a flurry of songs in recent months. He dropped “Herojuana Blunts” on 4/20 and “Bad Company” with BlocBoy JB in late March. Before that, Rocky released a number of “testing” tracks, including “5 Stars,” “Above” and “Money Bags Freestyle.”
Testing currently has no confirmed release date. Rocky had said the LP would drop “for sure” before the end of 2017, but it failed to materialize.
Check out the cover art for Testing below.
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Cover reminds me of Smiff n Wesson da shining
I knew it was looking familiar. BCC baby!
Bout to join the “shoulda been bigger than he was” club. All that fashion shit cool but can’t complain about people taking ur rapping style when ur ass ain’t rapped in years!
Not to mention all that acid and shit he talk about eatin
Know the sciences bro acid middle class kids etc. They buy music Hood persona for the appeal.
Yah diG
Cover look like da shinin, wtf
The cover art is a play on smiff N wessun shining which is a play on roy ayers old album
NWA did it, Smif and Wessun did it, Onyx did it, Pro Era did it, and now Rocky. Hip hop is a cycle. Thank god we have some diversity in rap again. Kids can jock the mumble and trap shit. Old heads still have Statik and Preem making dusty beats. Gambino and Chance on their pseudo-woke shit. The culture is balanced, like it or not.
Everyone’s claiming original but its ordinary.
In the immortal words of KRS One “Nothing new, nothing, new, they ain’t sayin nothing new” RUN DMC and LL Cool J been experimenting with different sounds for years (Rock, Reggae, Disco, Funk etc)
I have a lot of respect for KRS, but the irony is pretty thick since all his post-95 records sound the same sonically and lyrically.
No one cares about this crap. Thats word to pusha and kanye
It’s Pusha’s week this week, next week Kanye, then Kanye and Cudi, then King Nas!
Having listened to A$AP and Pusha albums multiple times today, I think Rocky’s record is much better on pretty much every level with the exception of length.