Longtime Bone Thugs-n-Harmony fan A$AP Ferg is how the group would say, “creepin’ on ah a come up” this year.
Not only did his recently released sophomore studio album, Always Strive and Prosper, mark his biggest Billboard debut to date, its rollout single, “New Level” helped the Harlemnite retain his trap lord title as it remains one of the top-tier joints in rap this year.
Such prosperity has only lead to more success — and more notoriety, as Ferg, who is coming off the Level Up Tour with Tory Lanez, is set to co-headline this Saturday’s BET Experience Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz ColleGrove show alongside Fetty Wap, Ty Dolla $ign, and Kodak Black. It’s with great notoriety that his songs often make fans out of a wide range of demographics, no matter how edgy the lyrical content identifies itself.
Last month, MLB legend Barry Bonds raised a stink over a gaggle of white kids at his daughter’s expensive Los Angeles school rapping along to Ferg’s 2013 hit “Dump Dump” (most explicitly the chorus of “I fucked your bitch, nigga, I fucked your bitch…She sucked my dick, nigga, she sucked my dick”).
When asked whether he felt a responsibility or need to control people from rapping his songs, Ferg, 27, maturely tells HipHopDX that there are no measures he can take to prevent people from actual enjoying his music any way they see fit.
There’s no way I could monitor that,” Ferg tells DX in regards to the Brentwood students, as he takes a break from practicing for his upcoming BET Experience set. “Hip Hop is doing all of this for me you know what I’m saying. I’m just doing what I love to do, I’m telling the dudes what I’ve experienced and the lifestyle. You can’t control, you want to be at peace. I’m just telling my life story. I’m just trying to tell the truth.”
“I see white kids screaming that all the time. I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, but I’m saying it’s been like that for so long in the history of Hip Hop. From Run-DMC’s time, unto now. The majority of fans that come to my shows is white. All Hip Hop artists know that. I do feel that those who are more sensitive to it, I do feel where they’re coming from at the same time ‘cause me I’m just an artist I’m just projecting my reality. What people perceive of it or whatever the case may be, I think you know, that’s just where we living.”
On the music side of things, Ferg relays to us he would be the proud owner of a Lamborghini if he had a dollar for every time someone asked him of the whereabouts of the mythical A$AP Mob album as he tries to “find the time” to start crafting his third studio album.
For now, he’s looking towards Saturday’s performance to show the Los Angeles concertgoers what “level” he’s been operating on all year.
“You can expect a real turnt-up show,” he says with a laugh. “It’s gonna be actually gonna be like the Level Up Tour that I’m doing with Torey, we just gon go out there and perform our show, like we still on the tour. We just gonna show these people what we been doing on the road the past few weeks. It’s been really good.”
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A$AP Ferg is right. It’s not recently that people of all races have been rapping/singing along with their favorite artists, it’s been like that since the dawn of music. Artists can’t control it, it’s their fans and they are going to do it whether it’s explicit lyrics or not. It shouldn’t matter what color of their skin is, a fan is a fan no matter what. That goes for all genres of music of not just Hip Hop.
He’s right. How can you expect your fans not to sing along. If you make good shit people will sing along. It’s when these little kids come up to ferg with their hand out saying what up my nigga, like it’s cool to be saying that shit. In different circumstances they might catch a knuckle sandwich.
I like Negros
Ah black people, the worlds biggest cry babies.
sure you can, stop saying it.
Black people, world ls biggest cry babies. I’ll say njgger to your face then slap your mother.
I’d slap the taste out of your mouth
Ill slap my jlzz out yo mommas mouth.
Funny how rap artists never bash white people realizing they account for 70% of there yearly revenue….yet the alot of ignorant niggas sit and try and say raps for black people bet you your favorite artists would slap the flavor clean outa your mouth if tjey heard you say that…raps art its for everyone to enjoy and if your passionate enough about it and are screaming repeating the lyrics at the top of your lungs having a good time hell thats what musics for to bring enjoyment no matter the skin color or the genre…im white and pretty much anyone i usualy chill with is black and they see me as just like them another person in this world just wanting the best out of life…colors only skin deep till everyone realizes that this world will always be filled with a 1 sided ignorance…
lol @ This white pigs getting excited over this article.
People of all kinds of ethnicities are going to vibe with the music. It’s 2016 and Hip-Hop is one of the most influential mediums of artistic expression found across the world. It’s that important to our culture. This being said, I do think that with the persistent racial tension that’s found here in America that white people haven’t earned the right to freely say the N-word casually as if there is no history with its use. We are not that far off from the civil rights movement of the 60’s and still face mass racial prejudice in the form of white cops shooting innocent black kids, mass incarceration of young blacks, etc. Yes, hip-hop is a form of free, if not defiant, creative expression that includes all ethnicities, genders, political beliefs, etc. but it is, in my personal opinion, not OK for white people to just casually throw around the N-word even in rap lyrics. Point being that it is a matter of respect for the black community and out of respect for the ongoing battles that black folks face on a near daily basis regarding poverty, discrimination, and the subliminal hate that still exists for them. I hope this can be used as a platform for further discussion on the topic whether you agree with my opinions or not. Peace.
Props to Ferg though for keeping it real though!
There is one way to control what lyrics fans sing along to…….. quit using the word in your songs. If anyone is offended that white kids sing along they should take it up with the artist. Or better yet quit being a pussy. Enjoy life and quit sitting around looking for shit to be offended by.