A$AP Rocky discussed his recent negative views on the Hood by Air fashion brand in an interview with New York Magazine published today (November 6).
Rocky debuted the song “Multiply” this April at Coachella which included the line “HBA shit is weak, you can keep that.”
In October, A$AP Rocky dropped the visuals for the Juicy-J assisted track “Multiply.”
A$AP Rocky, who had worn HBA in previous years, said that he doesn’t have a serious issue with the brand, but that his fashion tastes have evolved.
“I’m going to put it to you like this: I can say that I’ve been scrutinized for my fashion since I was about 15 years old,” Rocky says in the interview. “A lot of people got it easy. I feel like I had to go through the whole Civil Rights Movement just to be comfortable, to make other people comfortable, to be able to wear what they want to wear, and a lot of dudes are just claiming to have it without having to have that sacrifice or suffering through all that kind of shit. We’ve been through that kind of shit. That’s all I can really say about it. It is really miniscule. It’s no real beef.”
Rocky, who is still prepping his sophomore album, said he thinks “HBA shit is weak,” so he does not know if he would work with the brand again.
A$AP Rocky clarified the struggle he endured through fashion.
“The way that I look now, this wasn’t acceptable about 12 years ago in the hood,” Rocky says while wearing a closely tailored black suit. “Because we’ve always been dressing like this and it wasn’t acceptable and we made it acceptable.”
Rock that dude, but stfu nikka
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Until you are sprayed with fire hoses, attacked by police dogs and beaten to a pulp by cops with clubs you will know nothing of struggle. Don’t ever compare your “struggle” in fashion to that of the brave souls who participated in the Civil Rights movement. You insult their memory making such a comparison.
lmao. get em
why this dude always talkin about clothes..girlie shit
“I feel like I had to go through the whole Civil Rights Movement just to be comfortable, to make other people comfortable, to be able to wear what they want to wear, and a lot of dudes are just claiming to have it without having to have that sacrifice or suffering through all that kind of shit.”
for that statement alone this dress wearing, nail painting homo should be kicked out of hip-hop and black culture
what suffering did he go through besides people online calling him gay for wearing dresses with leg warmers?
This dude is very ignorant ,People died in the civil rights struggle for human rights! and for this CLOWN to try and use this so he can dress as a woman he needs to open a book and apologize to the fallen heros who stood for something !
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this chump is a hipster, thats all there is to it. he made people want to wear that shit and now hes trying to hate on it. definition of a hipster.
Smh another media source with a misleading headline. And of course they’re connected with bitch ass Complex. Don’t worry Rocky. Imma head to this front office and clear the situation then write an emotional ass open letter about it on Tumblr
how is it misleading if they used an actual quote that came out of his mouth!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nigga u gay
That nigga is a fucking fagg
black people in 2014 are a joke, seriously.
what backwards ass town you live in?
i thot this was gay too, but if u look at the context he saays it in its relly not a big deal
Stupid retard! Don’t you compare the Civil Right Movement for your foolish ass clothes faggot! Bitch, you defending racist honkies that hate our guts, you sleeping with hoes like that ugly ass bitch cunt Iggy Azaela, which by the way left your broke ass for that stupid simp Nick Young, and not mention your hatred toward women when you slap that lady at that concert because she touch your ugly ass face, which you she spit you but on the video she didn’t! FUCK YOU ASAP CRAPPY! YOU SHOULD HAVE WENT TO JAIL, BUT LIKE A FAGGOT ASS PUNK YOU PAID THE COPS OFF, BUT YOU ALWAYS PULLING THAT 2PAC AND NWA EXCUSE OF FUCK THE POLICE! PUSSY NIGGA SHUT THE FUCK UP AND SIT THE FUCK DOWN!
What a complete dumbass. Typical, uneducated, uninformed rapper that never, ever passed a history or social studies class. you can tell dude doest respect his elders and the road that they paved for him to even be in the position he’s in. Comparing his struggle for exceptance in the hood to the civil right s movement? Really Asap? Bad enough gay people thing that there so called “movement” is comparable to the civil rights struggle..now you got dumb fucks like this lame debasing our elders sacrifices even more? Somebody needs to check his dumb ass ASAP
You seemed like someone with a point at least worth listening to, that is until you ruined all credibility you had with homophobia. Don’t call for sense when you speak nonsense. You’re just as bad as that nigga. Now raise up off the soap box, and sit the fuck down.
I dont like his sound but I do like this song on iTunes and spotify http://itunes.apple.com/album/id925468674
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Fuckin’ retard !!!!!!!!!!!
Im only gettin bootlegs of his sh*t from now on. Dude’s a joke.
word up asap rocky n rosa parks is the same nigga
“I have a dream, that one day, half a fag fuck boys will be able to wear $1,000 ripped skinny leotard jeans with huge long-sleeved shirts and big sneakers without getting made fun of, robbed or beat up”
this is why everybody hate this gay ass nigga
duke is far from the trendsetter/tastemaker he THINKS he is.
Seems like this nigga likes to compare anything to the Civil Rights Movement
Nigga u gay
Funny thing is. he’s got really bad fashion sense IMO. However Whiz khalifa takes the cake.
This tiny little nigga is a joke, the kid can’t write music for shit. Oh and fuck him for thinking he has any concept of what the civil rights struggle was like if he wants to compare it to how he prefers to dress like a homosexual or a woman or whatever, SMH fucking kids these days.
I hate when these ignorant asses who have such a limited understanding of historical places and times try to compare their myopic brand to something as transformative as the civil rights movement. damn pathetic shame.
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Asap shits on everything his elders stood for with that comparison.
This is like…
Soulja Boy thanking the slave masters because without them we wouldn’t be over here getting this money and diamonds
Celebrities comparing their day-to-day paparazzi battles to soldiers battling over seas
Kanye West comparing himself to Jesus Christ
I’ve said it for years and I’m really starting to believe more and more that when most people achieve fame and fortune they really start to lose their fucking minds. A$AP Rocky should go apologize to everyone he knows who lived during a REAL STRUGGLE i.e. the Civil Rights Movement. FOH you ignorant ass nigga!