A$AP Rocky: Testing review – twisted pretty-boy cranks up the weirdness
The rapper’s aversion to the mainstream takes his third album to some glorious heights, with the help of Skepta and Frank Ocean. But is his swaggering decadence wearing thin?A$AP Rocky’s great gift isn’t that he flies above rap trends – it’s that he contorts them at will. Who else could be pitched as the successor to New York’s golden-age legends while leaning on subwoofer-rumbling, screwed-up Southern hip-hop? Rocky is an ostentatious impresario who...
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A$AP Rocky has released new album Testing, and it’s packed with appearances from some of rap and hip hop’s leading …Continue rea... more info
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Guardian Music — The rapper’s aversion to the mainstream takes his third album to some glorious heights, with the help of Skepta and Frank Ocean. But is his swaggering decadence we... more info