Speaking with XXL about plans for upcoming A$AP Mob releases in an interview released earlier today, A$AP Yams explained why the crew decided to shelve their planned group project originally scheduled for an August release.
“You’re about to hear a lot from us in the [next] couple of months,” he said, responding to a question about where recently released singles like “Hella Hoes” will be placed. “We honestly have been very quiet. It’s been a stale ass year. Nothing has inspired us to drop nothing. So we went back to the drawing board with it. It’s drawing board season right now. It’s been a lot of wack shit. So it’s like, how are we going to fuck them up right now? How are we going to shake up the world right now? If you ain’t trying to shake up the world, you ain’t going to shake up shit.”
Addressing why he thinks 2014 has been a low-point for Hip Hop as a whole, Yams said, “this is probably the worst year of Rap music ever.”
“It wasn’t any trends; musically it was a lot of dry-ass shit,” he said. “Everybody [who] was supposed to drop, dropped the ball. This is probably the worst year of rap music ever. Let’s be honest. This is the worst year of rap music ever. It’s just been allegiances and people hyping shit up. Man, that shit trash.”
Shortly after, XXL reached out via Twitter for responses from fans and quickly turned around with a separate article.
During the interview, A$AP Yams also addressed the status of upcoming solo albums from individual members of the collective. Speaking about A$AP Ferg, Yams said, “you don’t know what to expect from him.”
“Ant’s got a couple mixtapes and a solo project,” Yams said. “Ant is gong [sic] to really shock a lot of people because Ant is a brilliant A&R. A lot of artists that I had found or put notice on was through Ant. Ant will be discovering an artist and on top of that he has a good ear for beats. Sometimes he gives me a beat and says, give this to so and so, they would sound good on this. Ferg is going to be crazy, you don’t know what to expect from him. It’s like you wouldn’t know what to expect from Busta Rhymes.”
what a moron. tons of good shit dropped
Never heard of this guy in my life. He’s one ugly motherfucker though, on the real.
no need to know him. dude doesn’t do shit. he’s the ‘spirit guide’ of the a$ap mob. doesn’t bring a thing to the table musically, he shouldn’t even be speaking on this kinda shit.
This dude is a fucking moron. Here are all the dope projects that dropped/will drop before this year is up:
Freddie Gibbs x Madlib – “Pinata”
Big KRIT – “Cadillactica”
Logic – “Under Pressure”
Cormega – “Mega Philosophy”
Isaiah Rashad – “Cilvia Demo”
Tech N9ne – “Strangeulation
Rittz – “Next to Nothing”
Mobb Deep – “The Infamous Mobb Deep”
Common – “Nobody’s Smiling”
Pharoahe Monch – “P.T.S.D.”
Skyzoo x Torae – “Barrel Brothers”
Slaine – “King of Everything Else”
Apollo Brown & Ras Kass – “Blasphemy”
Dag Savage – “E&J”
Raz Simone – “Cognitive Dissonance”
Homeboy Sandman – “Hallways”
Edo G. – “After All These Years”
The Roots – “…and then you shoot your cousin”
Diamond D – “Diam Piece”
Fashawn – “The Ecology”
People Under the Stairs – “12 Step Program”
Reks – “Eyes Watching God”
Smoke DZA – “Dream.Zone.Achieve”
Dilated Peoples – “Directors of Photography”
7eventhirty – “The Problem”
Apathy – “Connecticut Casual”
Akrobatik – “Built to Last”
Constant Flow – “Ascension”
Ces Cru – “Codename: Ego Stripper”
Statik Selektah – “What Goes Around”
Styles P – “Phantom & the Ghost”
Diabolic – “Fightin Words”
The Underachievers – “Cellar Door: Terminus Ut Exordium”
Joell Ortiz – “House Slippers”
Aspects – “Grind Over Matter”
Curren$y – “The Drive-In Theatre”
Bas – “Last Winter”
CunninLynguists – “Strange Journey Vol. 3”
Boaz – “Intuition”
DJ Quik – “Midnight Life”
Atmosphere – “Southsiders”
Freeway & The Jacka – “Highway Robbery”
Black Milk – “Glitches in the Break”
Blu – “Good to Be Home”
Termanology – “G.O.Y.A.”
JL B.Hood – “Brain Scatter 2”
Cozz – “Cozz & Effect”
Vince Staples – “Hell Can Wait”
Kid Vishis – “Timing Is Everything”
Wu-Tang Clan – “A Better Tomorrow”
Ice Cube – “Everythang’s Corrupt”
Lil Bibby – “Free Crack 2”
Rapsody – “Beauty and the Beast”
Saigon – “GSNT 3: The Troubled Times Of Brian Carenard”
Swollen Members – “Brand New Day”
Talib Kweli – “Gravitas”
Madchild – “Switched On”
Army of the Pharaohs – “Heavy Lies the Crown”
Bishop Nehru x MF DOOM – “NehruvianDOOM”
Stalley – “Ohio”
T.I. – “Paperwork”
vince staples
cozz
And MURSDAY’s album too
Dont Forget Doppelgangaz New Album This Year Too
Sorry I forgot to add Kevin Gates new mixtape, that shit was fire too
G-Unit EP and Mastermind
you mean to tell me these hot ass albums came out this year, and this weak ass nigga said no good hip hop cameout.. this nigga must want MIgos
nobody aint worried about this underground bullshit. TIP was solid but he didn’t shake shit up like he usually does. Ross had the highest selling rap album and that shit was subpar. Yams is right
Add Joey Bada$$ – B4.Da.$$ to that list. The singles he dropped so far were dope as fuck.
Most of this is pseudo intellectual faggot shit white people listen to. The dude is talking about regular rap not this underground garbage.
^yeah cause only black people listen to that ignorant rap. black people are not on that intellectual level. fuck smart white people music even though most of these artist are black.
how can you forget the album of the year to be #carer5
I mess wit as$p gang but this
Maybe coz a$ap shit cant fuck with any record mentioned above.
HE SPEAKS THE TRUTH. BIG SEAN SHOULDA DROPPED AN ALBUM THIS YEAR ALREADY. OH WELL GUESS WE GOTTA WAIT FOR THE GENUIS BIG SEAN TO DROP ANOTHER ALBUM..
big sean is gonna fail under roc nation management..name 1 artist under jay-z(besides kanye)who had a decent career?
Trust me in the next few months you’re all going to be reading about ol purple face getting smacked up by the one and only Vamp King, Jim Jones the Capo
worst year for asap mob probably … lol bitter ass nigga .. he just tight because the asap mob project flopped … them niggas aint selling records … asap buzz is over … gs9 … shmurda season … lol …
yea… I have to agree this year was wack for music all together but mostly for hiphop
drake made this year great with out drake rap is irrelevent
thought provoking, thank you for your insight.
drake is not a rapper..he’s a popstar like taylor swift & katy perry
Big Sean made this year great without Big Sean rap is irrelevant
You guys must be 21 or below. Rap isn’t Big Sean or Drake. That is pop music and has nothing at all to do with hip hop. Rap is only a part of what hip hop is and without the rest your fake and irrelevant.
ASAP isn’t even hip hop and he’s claiming to know what happened in hip hop? This is what pop music has became fake as it possibly can get. Hip Hop is the opposite of PoP and if you have anything to do with hip hop you wouldn’t even be mentioned on this site. “Hip Hop’s about not being exposed, so you better take your naked ass and put on some clothes” – De La Soul
eat a dick old nigga
“eat a dick old nigga” got to love when a 17 year old who loves pop music and claims to be an internet thug has that to add to the conversation. LoL welcome to the new hip PoP.
Didn’t someone else say this a few days ago in an interview? I think it was on Hot 97 or something. These rappers copy everything other rappers say.
Why the hell would anyone care what this ugly fat little purple face dipshit thinks? He’s not a rapper he’s not anything other then some fucking idiot hypebeast pussy. Fuck ASAP Rocky too he’s just an idiot kid, he’ll prolly end up at Taylor gang or some gay shit like that.
this ASAP dude is actually right..Iggy has ran the year so far..hiphop gets worst every year..the best song of the year is “Be Inspired” by pete rock/rapsody/lecrae, 50 Cent “Flip on You”…oh and Phife’s “Dear Dilla”
who has the time to listen to all of that? no wonder sh*ts all f*cked up y’all hopping on & off rapper’s dicks every other day like frogs
it’s like gluttony, n!ggas is just eating and eating and eating and ain’t digesting, can’t even tell you what the food taste like so how you know the food is good?
PLUS, y’all ain’t even paying for the meals, lol this sh*t ain’t gonna last and CAN’T last this way
Well if thats so, it would seem like the perfect time to drop, right?
There’s some good stuff coming out that’s long overdue. There’s some big names dropping in october (Game, T.I., and Wayne). I’m excited for the Run the Jewels album and Black Milk’s. Then wait for Kanye to drop his album with no warning.
Look at the pot calling the kettle black as their music is complete garbage as well. With that said, Yams has a point. Eminem, Kendrick, Pharrell, Jay Z, and kayne are all pop stars that give hiphop a bad name. The worst part is that their albums are selling better than truly dope artists like Ross, YMCMB (even Drake lost to eminem showing quality doesn’t equal quanity), 2 chainz, YG, DJ Mustard, and many more dope artists.
Hiphop is truly in a bad place right now.
You are white.
You got everything backwards. Eminem, Kendrick, Pharrell, Jay Z, and Kayne West are not pop stars and they don’t give hip-hop a bad name, that’s Ross, YMCMB, 2 chainz, YG, and DJ Mustard who are trash and make hip-hop look bad.
where would yams be without Eminem, Kendrick, Pharrell, Jay Z, and kayne? no doubt all those dudes are pop now but their catalogs (pharrells production) shit all over anything ASAP mob will achieve
In a year where Iggy Albino is topping the charts and Animal Ambition is on shelves this is easily the worst year in the history of HipHop music. ASAP Birthmark cant really talk since his leader is faggerized walking around in man-skirts gay as a bird.
besides Gibbs & Madlibs Pinata project, which is a fuckin great album… almost everything else that has dropped this year has been pretty weak.. Souls of Mischief & Grouch & Eligh put out pretty good albums.. other than that 2014 has been pretty weak.
This guy said there weren’t any trends around to follow and hop on and he was too lazy to come up with something innovative on his own, therefore, this year is the worst year for rap? Bro, use your LIFE as inspiration. Only albums I felt though was the Mobb Deep album and Isaiah Rashad boy boy!
Glad someone else picked up on this!!!
2014 was a “lackluster”…the best 7 albuims were
1. SAIGON GSNT3
2.AB-SOUL THESE DAYS
3.SCHOOLBOY Q OXYMORON
4.YG MY KRAZY LIFE
5.Ti PAPERWORK
6.LIL WAYNE THE C5
7.RICK ROSS MASTERMIND….
GTFOH with that bs list
carter 5 hasn’t even come out yet. smfh
“This year, overall U.S. album sales are down 14.6 percent, while digital album sales are down 11.7 percent and track sales are down 12.8 percent.”-BILLBOARD AUG 2014
Wanna know what rose? STREAMING.
These new fans out here FRONTING like they serious music supporters, skimming thru streams and commenting on weekly sales reports talking about flop and music business ploys and THEY DON’T BUY MUSIC.
They dropping 50+ name lists like the game is thriving! Doo-doo faces talking about “white people took over rap”. LOOK AT THE RESULTS OF THEIR “TAKEOVER”. Stop blaming technology! Stop saying it’s the music! It’s the FANS.
Onyx, G-Unit, YG, ScHoolboy Q, Step Brothers, Army Of The Pharaohs, Pharoahe Monch, Mobb Deep, Dilated Peoples, 50 Cent, DJ Mustard, Common, Rick Ross dropped hot shit
and Wu-Tang Clan, 50 Cent, G-Unit, Lil Wayne, Logic, Nas, Run The Jewels, Royce Da 5′ 9″ & DJ Premier, Tonedeff, Kendrick Lamar, T.I., Joey Bada$$, Big K.R.I.T., Joe Budden, A$AP Rocky is on the way
Are u serious Yams?
I’m a big fan of the Mobb, 50, Dilated peoples and Common but those joints were trash. Not memorable. Mustards joint gets no spins now either.
Best joints were Schoolboy, YG and Gibbs. And if thats the top 3 projects of the year, then Yams is right this was a terrible year musically.
Joe Budden man…
Pharoahe Monch dropped a monster album this year and nobody took notice
Monch, Gibbs and Isaiah Rashad got the best joints this year. I’m yet to check out Dilated’s album but I liked the singles a lot.
Common’s album wasn’t bad either.
What is with nearly every rapper using the word “its” when clearly the word they’re looking for is “there or there’s?” These kids sound dumb as fuck in interviews
whats with these but hurt faggot pretending to be an english teacher as posters getting angry at rappers for words
whoops i meant over words.i guess i get an f on this assignment
I’m nude.
who cares wht this guy thinks..i cant even name a asap yam song lol
funny thing is this year aint even over..watch out for game, rick ross, kanye, t.i, lil wayne, wale, stalley, g unit, nikki, eminem all got albums /eps coming…
Totally agree
get pushed back
You know A$AP Mob had a hot song with that Trillmatic. If they released more shit like that, I would check for them more.
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Instead of complaining about a lack of trends, oh no, rappers had to be original, maybe you should start your own.
if u dont buy music ( real copys not bootlegs )u shouldint even comment .
You’re an idiot if you pay for this trash. Shit should be free. Matter of fact there are certain acts you cant pay me to listen to.
why would you want it for free if it’s trash and they should cut you a check to listen
ASSWIPE YAMS?
someone do a chromosome check on this fuck, i don’t think its human!
yellow yams from Birmingham >>>>>>>>
hip hop ‘culture’ is the best yuck yuck yuck
You got everything backwards. Eminem, Kendrick, Pharrell, Jay Z, and Kayne West are not pop stars and they don’t give hip-hop a bad name, that’s Ross, YMCMB, 2 chainz, YG, and DJ Mustard who are trash and make hip-hop look bad.
LOL at pharrell being hiphop. He’s elementary school pop with that gay ass happy song. It appeals to toddlers and there’s too many of them.
You got it wrong again. Happy ain’t elementary school pop, it ain’t gay, and it doesn’t appeal to toddlers.
honestly I feel happy as a song more than “I”, even though I is lyrical and more complicated…
there are so many monkeys complaining in the comments but you can’t even tell what they’re trying to say half of the time, LOL.
speak english please.
f*ck
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steve
I think he’s right. So many disappointing, sub-par or just plain terrible albums this year. The only good ones were Cilvia Demo, Oxymoron, Pinata, Seen It All and the Roots album. Meanwhile Common, Ab-Soul, Kid Cudi, Blu, 50, Wiz and The Underachievers dropped underwhelming projects. And the fact that Nick Cannon and Iggy Azaelia came out with albums and Cam’ron drops some half ass bullshit monthly makes 2014 pretty bad.
at least camron is giving you video episodes to go with that music
I agree 2014 was a horrible year for rap. Kendrick Lamar got cheated out of a Grammy to a semi pop rapper who doesn’t represent the rap community. Nobody major artist really dropped any music. It was a year run by singles and verses from Nicki Minaj and Iggy Azalea lmao. Although Nicki did kinda put in work. The coming of Iggy just spells bad for rap overall. Letting a white girl from Australia rap with a fake accent lol, good work hip hop. Also people like Young Thug who doesn’t speak english in his songs was all over the place. I will admit I do turn up to Mr Thug, but it doesn’t change the fact he is utter garbage.
Lemar from Revenge of the Nerds has more talent than Kendrick. I’m sleep tho.
Retard.
Gudda Brudda
2014 has been a pretty weak year so far, not gonna lie. Freddie Gibbs and Dilated People’s albums have been the two stand outs in my eyes, but I think this year could end with a bang.
Bruhhh! Yams meant there year has been the worst in history! Every year there is always something great that happens in hip hop. This year we got TDE releasing 6 projects(4/6), YG’s My Krazy Life, DJ Mustard 10 Summers, Jeezy, Game’s Year of the Wolf, vince Staples, etc.. This nigga just mad cuz they ain’t been making alot of noize this year.. No offense to the A$AP Mob, they put a few dope tracks and Rocky’s new track “Multiply”. Idk wtf he talkin bout
meh on most of those though. not that they’re bad, but they shine more cause there isn’t as much out.
Hip hop has been in a downward spiral since 2005. The genre peaked many years ago. There’s nothing new or original to bring to the table anymore. The industry and internet haven’t helped matters either. The game is just too watered down now. It’s just too easy for anyone to get in the game now.
Youre not lying
Id say around about 2004/05 was Hip Hops last golden era
Thats when you had Interscope dominating with Shady and 50 cent; whilst Def Jam were still in it with Ruff Ryders, So So Def; plus Nelly etc etc
The dams were broken when Soulja boy came out in 07. Since then Ive noticed that the games been permanently damaged
Hiphop is going to die if shit artists like kayne kardashian are cherry picking artists off dope labels like tyga and turning them into backstabbers.
Pharoahe Monch – PTSD
Album of the year
I gotta agree. It wasn’t a bad year cause of low quality, it was just scant in releases. Common, Schoolboy Q, and a couple other dudes so far, thats it.
YG album had dope production and 8 dope tracks,
iggy azaela album had 4 good songs and schoolboy q album had 3 or 4 good ones and joell ortiz album had 7 dope tracks. either way he right this year wasnt all that.
this videos funny as hell tho, havent heard a rap artist go in with this style in years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNTXPlEFWaA
i would agree, but cilvia demo was straight fire