The Real Reason A$AP Delayed His Album

[@ChaosInColour]

genuinely enjoyed all rocky’s singles, idk who’s calling them bad beside drake riders

[@osirishill23]

Yea same

[@Teg047]

exactly!

[@gpics900]

Yeah I was confused on that one part especially for Ruby Rosary

[@LUIZ_FUEGO]

@@gpics900hopefully we get a music video for it

[@hungarianmidget]

@@gpics900yeah people were calling jcoles verse on that bad or mid which is crazy

[@D.o.r.K]

Kendrick sold 616,000 first week on damn

[@BigDdizzle]

In LA 😆

[@SamuelDavis-iy9ox]

But that was also in 2017

[@i.m.6758]

It’s over

[@lesedimakeketa5683]

Bro how did you listen to this whole video only to bring up an album from 7 years ago? 😂

[@Realcordy]

@@lesedimakeketa5683mis info

[@InspiredIsland]

People are forgetting hip-hop “dies” every ten years, they said the same thing at the end of the bling era when kanye and jay dropped watch the throne, what yall arent seeing is that rap is turning a corner, evolving new sounds slowly, and trust me its Playboi Carti thats gonna usher this new era, starting with an evolution of gucci era trap. remember this comment

[@BigDdizzle]

@@InspiredIsland or kdot and Cole with their new albums

[@Junior-mx5od]

You got a good eye

[@flamingosrcool1378]

@@BigDdizzlethey’re both old, they’re not changing rap in the 2020s

[@zach8107]

I sure fucking hope the end of your post doesn't happen. I will not be here for hip hop anymore if Playboi carti becomes the face of the next gen, he is fucking buns

[@pshottaofficial]

@@zach8107chill dawg we all have different music taste like personally I want lil yachty to have a chance

[@indyhondagod]

Highjack and Taylor swif are on the daily work playlist. Idk who's talking shit.

[@huambikazapua1886]

Bro 😭 I’m also wondering

[@kadiryel6237]

This really is the perfect time for Cole to drop The Fall Of. I think only he can revive the current situation of hip-hop now, especially thinking how much he has hyped it well over the past 6 years.

[@dalonbranch8270]

🤨

[@ALFMthembu]

Feel like the listners are too worried about number, when they heard Travis was gonna do 200k first week they all rushed to listen to his tape which you was always on soundcloud Feel like numbers are the new promo

[@ALFMthembu]

And to add on this take, Travis did 200k because of bundles without bundles he would have sold under 50k

[@brugburnz8590]

its sucks blue lips doesnt get the recognition it deserves.

[@carboodle610]

Came here to say Blue Lips is Q's best album to date, his craft is like fine wine. AOTY in my humble opinion

[@RobertMunro-wb6jb]

I don’t care what the sales say !!! Sometimes a rap album could sell real low but be a quality album!!! I would say schoolboy q had the best album this year !!!

[@t.1344]

Are we fixated on sales or the music?

[@bigflockacuban]

the reason asap rocky isnt dropping great music is because he doesnt want to have bad sales so both

[@ChaosInColour]

@@bigflockacuban we could take that claim with a grain of salt bc rocky did flat out say it’s because of sample clearances. either way i hope he just puts out a good project for his fans regardless of sales

[@gpics900]

I thought all the singles were pretty well received especially Hijack & Ruby Rosary. And Tailor Swif did pretty good I mean they debuted pretty solid on the Hot 100. I just think A$AP’s rollout in general is just all over the place really like he’s inconsistent with his promotion

[@Shinyshoesz]

I think you hit the nail on the head at the end there -- it's just an ebb and flow. A lot of those records and artists you mentioned not getting sales had very good albums from a music perspective. I loved Schoolboy's new stuff, and I loved ASAP's singles. Granted, I grew up with both of them. But it's honestly for the best if hip hop has a little dark age and encourages other to innovate.

[@swansonjoe7121]

The end of rap is crazy The return to pop is back 😭😭

[@cristianjofre1607]

Lol, Wasn't the "Nirvana Moment" like 7 years ago with mumble rap, meme rap and the soundcloud pink dreads era with the Uzi's and Travis Scott's doing hip hop edgier, simple lyrics, carried by the production and kinda dumber, like everybody was saying "oh, this is soooo punk, sooo grunge and edgy, so different to the 2000's". Thats it, that was hip hop's reset cultural moment... and its over. If anything we are now in Hip Hop's "Post Grunge" era (wich means the artist and now lamer, cringier and the general public got bored of the genre and decided to explore other genres and styles of music doing cooler stuff right now cause thats life)

[@barsthehippie]

The rollout was disappointing ?? Fam?

[@lorddpablo9651]

The pandemic fucked up everything.

[@Yelamar1]

Asaps new music has been cold

[@someonesaccountforwritingn9894]

highjack slander is not tolerated that songs fucking beautiful

[@Person-door]

Your editing style is really nice 🎉

[@devgontshi1872]

dj Ebro said this in one of his shows that ' us Hip Hop enjoyers and people deeply rooted in this culture should stop listening to critics about Hip Hop because majority of this critics come from people who don't know anything about Hip Hop , culture and are just people who just came across it for the first time"

[@LinEll22_]

I like that you used the Kendrick Lamar instrumental for the Hip Hop is dying part. It's fitting.

[@Mossy_Fat]

I hope he doesnt go to prison

[@feb11ven]

HOT TAKE: A$AP Rocky was only good under the direction of A$AP Yams

[@barsthehippie]

The way i look at it is, nobody is buying albums because they can stream it. Most people are already subscribed to apple music, spotify or KZbin music.

[@worldcorpenterprisesarchive]

THE *END* OF *RAP*

[@jaymesmean]

Lifestyle rap is where its at right now. Smooth enjoyable music we can relate to.

[@austinbass7057]

love the house is burning shirt bro

[@mazzapharaoh]

If he just dropped the album and then toured on it but also played even half an album's worth of his bangers too that would sell

[@tyrannosaurushands]

Am the only one who finds it odd when people only call rocky just A$AP instead of A$AP Rocky or Rocky? To me It's like calling Patrick Mahomes the entirety of the Kansas City Chiefs when you're only referring to Patrick Mahomes. Even though he's the biggest artist in the collective A$AP still a collective. Maybe im just being pedantic or have played too much call of duty so im used to ignoring words or acronyms of team names before a person's name.

[@JohnOldJewish]

Drakeo really was on the come up

[@tdsdasdas]

Never understood the rocky hype

[@wbymyka]

Hip hop is kinda treated like the McDonald’s or MCU of music genres , widely acknowledged but not held in that high regard like it once was

[@TerofiedBeats]

The hair metal comparison was on point

[@lamp9478]

all the artist who were genuinely good and had potential to rewrite the rap genre, have died. Mac miller, juice, triple x, pop smoke and some others are all dead. Mac would be killing it right now imo aswell which sucks that he cant cause he died. Everyone that could make rap better has died atm.

[@dr.drizzy2]

love this

[@nicenrique6493]

Bro did you forget about Lil Uzi Vert? And the guys that were supposed to be the new leaders of rap were Xxxtentacion, Juicewrld, Uzi, and Carti. But two of them died, the other two never drop music.

[@dr.drizzy2]

The reason why there is none trying to get the big 3 is because the one who would have been the next big three are dead. Juice Wrld, x, pop, Nipsey, and more. all died. Any artist that could have been the next big three are dead. All we have left are industry plants, people copying the drake formula to get streams while having no talent, and the shit that was lil pump and all those bs mumble rappers.

[@colin1974]

Popular US rap has been dead for years. But don’t worry the UK has been keeping it very much alive. So no, rap isn’t dying, it’s just the US isn’t where it is right now. Although there are some great under the mainstream radar artists over there.

[@neon_goth]

Don’t put faygo in that section😭💔

[@Devthesportsjunkie]

Not the grippy song 😂

[@lezmez-qk2bb]

Don’t be dumb will end world hunger

[@aidanhunter7535]

Ok but he only delayed it after Hijack… it’s not like he saw they flopped and then dropped… he was gonna have to do it either way

[@tjayblu]

NOOOO WAAAYYY BLUE LIPS ONLY DID 34K?!!!!!!! And I WAS HONESTLYHAPPY WITH THE SINGLES FROM ROCKY EXCEPT TAYLOR SWIFF IT JUST SOUNDS SO OLD AND 2017-2019 ish too me

[@pomm100]

His fans just got tired of waiting tbh

[@JayMuggah88]

What is the instrumental used during the “Frank Ocean Strategy” explanation?

[@R.O.J_]

this video is the definition of making a mountain out of a mole hill.

[@lezmez-qk2bb]

What mixed reviews 💀literally nobody dislikes asap rocky not even Drake fans

[@yungactivist]

Tbh this is time for rappers to start cooking again

[@youknowjaye]

god if i had a dollar from every "rap is dying" take, i'd be a rich man

[@mcsone_]

drake shouldve never dropped views

[@Biu0book]

Almost copying word for word istillusedtobepay’s video

[@giovanniortiz7301]

HIP HOP originated in the SOUTH BRONX not HARLEM.

[@calebburt180]

Hip hop has always hated conformity, yet all artists are sounding the same, which is why the art is not as good anymore

[@iyeleadja2899]

i gotta disagree his album can turn out to be a turning point. Hip hop in general It'll be going towards a renewal like an era of truth in the lyrics, or just the audience wanting something more relatable our awareness of musics affect on us is shifting. ASAP Shit finna be fire tho

[@bullwinklemoose4969]

I think a big thing too is people like juice wrld and x passed away and I think those are the two who would have most likely took the torch from drake, Kendrick, j Cole. Losing those guys set the genre back a decade.

[@nxvqh]

I’d say the tiktok ban won’t be the game changer rap NEEDS to rebrand itself, but it’ll definitely keep talentless, lazy and in-general bland hiphop artists away from cashing out a viral moment in tiktok. Yea this genre will probably loose popularity yadayadayada but it should come back stronger.

[@beatsbyescyff]

I don't think that was the reason but I agree hip hop is dying right now and there's only a few few few talented rappers who would carry on after the big ones who been on top for years .. as a rocky fan i don't think he has a fan base it's more like a community that is interested in new musical sounds, street/urban/modern fashion and visuals of course .. it's an aesthetic pack in my opinion

[@ChaosInColour]

too bad aesthetic doesn’t matter to many anymore and if he doesn’t sell 200k albums first week he’s publicly shamed /:

[@beatsbyescyff]

​@ChaosInColour I respect ur opinion but when he dropped testing it was risky .. he said it himself I think in an interview.. he said something like he just put out the music he likes and see how it would turn out .. and testing is proof .. testing is a legacy love it or hate it

[@ChaosInColour]

@@beatsbyescyff i didn’t share my opinion? i’m agreeing with you but saying the hiphop pages and the mainstream audience will bash him if his album sales under 200k. i mf love asap haha

[@Whodnl]

Another tofu classic

[@Will0w394]

Jid is the future

[@20DollarGoldPiece]

What is the ‘Nervana’ moment?

[@yunis474]

which song is that in the background at 7:18?

[@braytechboyz5217]

watch the party die kendrick

[@Swavae]

Well Fans only care abot the beat, over satuated trash rappers, and most of the good rappers that were rise to be GREAT died to drugs or getting shot, Pop smoke,Juice wrld and XXXtentacion shoot even king von and go back as far as Mac Miller

[@adu2send766]

I noticed you use the kendricks last track

[@i.m.6758]

Hip-Hop is dead. ☠️

[@shrigga842]

i dont think bando stone is a rap album

[@valdeezy8675]

Pop is coming back - charli xcx, Chappell roan, Sabrina, frost children, 2hollis

[@shiven513]

Charlie xcx is bad I don’t understand the hype

[@DecentGreenTea]

aye you should listen to like JPEGMAFIA or danny brown bc their stuff is super unique and fresh/exciting

[@AngeloArpeggio]

The average listener can't even finish an album let alone an ep.😂Were cooked cause hip hop fan bases are becoming "swifties".

[@ChaosInColour]

tbf swifties listen to every second of a taylor project. rap fans won’t listen past 10 seconds if they don’t like the beat 💀

[@TakinOverSoon]

This video is so trash for the simple fact that you couldn’t even address the man correctly It’s Rocky or Flacko The crew name is A$AP the person is Rocky You don’t call Ferg just A$AP, you don’t call Yams just A$AP, you don’t call Twelvyy just A$AP Address them correct or don’t say it at all Always Strive and Prosper

[@TheWorriedCat]

rap didn’t die it’s just successful women now

[@dexso.crazy2001]

Both don't be dumb and all smiles leaked I got them on my phone had them for over a year

[@fernandoquintero9823]

"First"☝️🤓

[@InspiredIsland]

the music is the problem, asap rocky is ass 😂

[@hungarianmidget]

drake fans when someone has beef with their big meat god.

[@Joseph-me6kx]

first

[@Sumeko828]

8:28 sofaygo slander is insane, but solid video