The other influence is an awesome surprise. “Wassup” features a couple bars from “Peso” as its chorus while the refrain of “I be that pretty motherfucka” echoes throughout the album. Rocky takes the formulas that worked on his hit single “Peso” and repeats them, so that his most popular lines become foundations to build new songs on, allowing his persona to jut outward from beginnings that the world already approved. Along with the screwed up Houston sound that dominates a lot of the songs on the tape, Rocky imitates one of Nas’s ticks, one that the elder rapper has used throughout his career. But Rocky’s taking his cues from two venerable influences, one of whom seems completely intuitive for a New York rapper to imitate and the other which comes totally out of left field. Saying fly shit over those beats is more of a challenge. But picking beats is an intuitive power, a purely visceral feeling of instant approval. So, that right there is already two thirds of the phat shit (Ghost’s words) formula. Spaceghostprrp marries a lugubrious sax to finger snaps and rumbling bass on “Keep It G.” And Clams Casino solidifies his reputation as one of the best producers making beats right now, contributing five excellent tracks that exemplify Clammy Clam’s space and fuzz aesthetic. Blissed out minimalist synths come to us courtesy of Fat Tony on “Get Lit,” one of the many songs on the mixtape that owes something to Houston in both sound and content. Faded out, screwed up spaceship music is provided by Lyle on “Brand New Guy,” (which features Schoolboy Q, a rapper who’s starting to gain a reputation for jumping on excellent songs and acquitting himself nicely). And Rocky has an impressive ear for them. It must be a huge relief to whoever made the decision to give an untested twenty-three year old a deal worth three million dollars that A$AP Rocky seems to be familiar with the process, at least judging by his new mixtape, Live Love A$AP. In an interview with TSS, Pretty Tone let the world know that the key to making phat shit was “to get the beats, make sure they official, and say fly shit on it.” Like free lunches, Jonah Bromwich holds it down like steel.īack in 2009, Ghostface Killah casually let the secret to making good rap slip.
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