Is it over for A$AP Mob as a collective?
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Even though A$AP Mob formed as early as the mid to late 00s, they were launched into the forefront of the rap game with the rising status of A$AP rocky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob3ktDxAjWI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLCf-URqIf0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liZm1im2erU
Then the Collective Effort...
Then we got introduced to A$AP Ferg as a solo act
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gXfaffdy6Q
(The Remix really helped propel him though)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXZxipry6kE
Then you get Trillmatic from A$AP Nast that was produced by A$ap TY beats and was originally supposed to be on their debut album but the album was scrapped
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xda8NvdEfA
Then as the years go on, while Rocky and ferg release their sophomore efforts with tapes from ferg mixed in and then last year, Yams dies and the debut album from Asap Mob gets released but I feel like a lot of buzz that the collective had as a whole about 4 years ago is for the most part, gone.
I feel like back then, they coulda been a new age dipset as far as a movement in the east coast for today's generation but now I dont think as a whole they wont be as relevant as they once were.
Rocky is a star and ferg is eatin but as a whole I think its gone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob3ktDxAjWIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLCf-URqIf0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liZm1im2erUThen the Collective Effort...
Then we got introduced to A$AP Ferg as a solo act
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gXfaffdy6Q(The Remix really helped propel him though)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXZxipry6kEThen you get Trillmatic from A$AP Nast that was produced by A$ap TY beats and was originally supposed to be on their debut album but the album was scrapped
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xda8NvdEfAThen as the years go on, while Rocky and ferg release their sophomore efforts with tapes from ferg mixed in and then last year, Yams dies and the debut album from Asap Mob gets released but I feel like a lot of buzz that the collective had as a whole about 4 years ago is for the most part, gone.
I feel like back then, they coulda been a new age dipset as far as a movement in the east coast for today's generation but now I dont think as a whole they wont be as relevant as they once were.
Rocky is a star and ferg is eatin but as a whole I think its gone
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Pretty much agree. Dave East is the New Harlem movement.
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there wave and oddfuture is done basically
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Yeah their buzz has completely diminished smh. I remember around 2011 when rocky came on to the scene. I was a freshman HS, and this ? was buzzing like a mufuka. Then freg got put on like year later. Soon the whole mob was building momentum smh. Thought them ? was taking over lol. But honestly, ? went downhill when yams past way. Even though rocky had best commercial performance with ALLA that summer, ? was never going to be the same without the leader of the pack. Notice how since yams passed, ain't nothing has been popping around the mob. It's very unfortunate, but it is what it is.
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The music didn't match the hype
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Elzo69Renaissance wrote: »The music didn't match the hype
You could say that, but at the same time you could see the potential for it to grow into something really. Early on atleast -
iswear ferg been working on album for the longest
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It's like once yams died so did their buzz.
Ferg has dropped a couple things
And Rocky just been diggin out once of Kim's sisters -
there wave and oddfuture is done basically
I think OF still has people doing it though. Earl is regarded as one of the best new lyricists. Tyler has a great mind for the music and the business. Frank Ocean is extremely talented and could drop a heralded piece of work at any time. Vince Staples puts out quality music at a decent clip. Domo Genesis is a super underrated rapper... If all those pieces decided to make a project together, the entire genre would take notice.
I can't say the same for ASAP though. They got Ferg and Rocky, and that's pretty much it. They lost their brainchild when Yams died. -
I really hate to say this but ? it im going to keep it 100. Rocky ? up big time when he said the ? about BLM. The ? he said about black women. Gettin jumped overseas. 2 subpar solo albums that didnt match up to his breakout mixtape. Ferg was on point with his first solo album and the ferg forever mixtape was dope. But his second LP was wack. As far as the rest of the group none of them could gain a good enough buzz to blow. I was really hoping that after the Lords Never Worry mixtape dropped that they wouldve followed up with an album but they scrapped it. Yams died. The A$AP Mob is finished. Like somebody said above they had the potential to be the new Dipset but failed to live up to the hype.
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Like Water wrote: »there wave and oddfuture is done basically
I think OF still has people doing it though. Earl is regarded as one of the best new lyricists. Tyler has a great mind for the music and the business. Frank Ocean is extremely talented and could drop a heralded piece of work at any time. Vince Staples puts out quality music at a decent clip. Domo Genesis is a super underrated rapper... If all those pieces decided to make a project together, the entire genre would take notice.
I can't say the same for ASAP though. They got Ferg and Rocky, and that's pretty much it. They lost their brainchild when Yams died.
Earl left
Staples was never Odd future
casey veggies was but he left
Its really tyler, ocean, domo, and hodgy at this point
and those loiter squad ? but thats a thread for another day -
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Like Water wrote: »there wave and oddfuture is done basically
I think OF still has people doing it though. Earl is regarded as one of the best new lyricists. Tyler has a great mind for the music and the business. Frank Ocean is extremely talented and could drop a heralded piece of work at any time. Vince Staples puts out quality music at a decent clip. Domo Genesis is a super underrated rapper... If all those pieces decided to make a project together, the entire genre would take notice.
I can't say the same for ASAP though. They got Ferg and Rocky, and that's pretty much it. They lost their brainchild when Yams died.
Earl left
Staples was never Odd future
casey veggies was but he left
Its really tyler, ocean, domo, and hodgy at this point
and those loiter squad ? but thats a thread for another day
Didn't know Earl left. Interesting. And yeah, I know Vince was just an affiliate, but I always lump him in with OF because he broke out onto the music scene with them. I forgot about Veggies too. Damn. They had a squad fa real. -
Like Water wrote: »there wave and oddfuture is done basically
I think OF still has people doing it though. Earl is regarded as one of the best new lyricists. Tyler has a great mind for the music and the business. Frank Ocean is extremely talented and could drop a heralded piece of work at any time. Vince Staples puts out quality music at a decent clip. Domo Genesis is a super underrated rapper... If all those pieces decided to make a project together, the entire genre would take notice.
I can't say the same for ASAP though. They got Ferg and Rocky, and that's pretty much it. They lost their brainchild when Yams died.
Earl left
Staples was never Odd future
casey veggies was but he left
Its really tyler, ocean, domo, and hodgy at this point
and those loiter squad ? but thats a thread for another day
Hodgy not with them anymore.
Tyler, Syd, Domo is the only one left that claim the set.
Ocean is not really with them and Staples is the same.
ASAP group ? up by not being and staying consistent with the music. You can tell they just wilding and having fun right now, but yams was the one that pushed them and kept them focused -
Hell no. Flacko's last 2 albums went gold SMMFH. Ferg had hits last year on the chart. Yall gotta give it time. J.Cole JUST got his hand in the cookie jar last year FINALLY going platinum, so did Big Sean with his first gold and platinum albums.
ASAP Mob is slowly building up to it and keep in mind they don't have a major label pushing them like that only Flacko does and the rest of the members are signed to him. With Yams dead I don't think Flacko has the business hand or the time to promote everyone, they have to put themselves on.
I said as a collective while you focusing on sales and chart status two members when there's at least 6
How much more time do you wanna give? It's coming up on 6-7 years since they emerged musically -
Hell no. Flacko's last 2 albums went gold SMMFH. Ferg had hits last year on the chart. Yall gotta give it time. J.Cole JUST got his hand in the cookie jar last year FINALLY going platinum, so did Big Sean with his first gold and platinum albums.
ASAP Mob is slowly building up to it and keep in mind they don't have a major label pushing them like that only Flacko does and the rest of the members are signed to him. With Yams dead I don't think Flacko has the business hand or the time to promote everyone, they have to put themselves on.
Long live asap went plat -
Hell no. Flacko's last 2 albums went gold SMMFH. Ferg had hits last year on the chart. Yall gotta give it time. J.Cole JUST got his hand in the cookie jar last year FINALLY going platinum, so did Big Sean with his first gold and platinum albums.
ASAP Mob is slowly building up to it and keep in mind they don't have a major label pushing them like that only Flacko does and the rest of the members are signed to him. With Yams dead I don't think Flacko has the business hand or the time to promote everyone, they have to put themselves on.
I said as a collective while you focusing on sales and chart status two members when there's at least 6
How much more time do you wanna give? It's coming up on 6-7 years since they emerged musically
And it took 2chainz two decades
There is always time, two hot singles can change anything in this business -
silverfoxx wrote: »Like Water wrote: »there wave and oddfuture is done basically
I think OF still has people doing it though. Earl is regarded as one of the best new lyricists. Tyler has a great mind for the music and the business. Frank Ocean is extremely talented and could drop a heralded piece of work at any time. Vince Staples puts out quality music at a decent clip. Domo Genesis is a super underrated rapper... If all those pieces decided to make a project together, the entire genre would take notice.
I can't say the same for ASAP though. They got Ferg and Rocky, and that's pretty much it. They lost their brainchild when Yams died.
Earl left
Staples was never Odd future
casey veggies was but he left
Its really tyler, ocean, domo, and hodgy at this point
and those loiter squad ? but thats a thread for another day
Hodgy not with them anymore.
Tyler, Syd, Domo is the only one left that claim the set.
Ocean is not really with them and Staples is the same.
ASAP group ? up by not being and staying consistent with the music. You can tell they just wilding and having fun right now, but yams was the one that pushed them and kept them focused
Syd is gone too she left after one of them fools ? in a bag on stage and passed that ? around to the crowd. Ugh nasty muthafuckas. Plus she wasnt feelin their homophobic lyrics -
this video and song right here was some contrived 90's trash.
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this video and song right here was some contrived 90's trash.
Beat was dope as ? but I didn't/don't like nast. ? was straight. -
sapp08_2001 wrote: »silverfoxx wrote: »Like Water wrote: »there wave and oddfuture is done basically
I think OF still has people doing it though. Earl is regarded as one of the best new lyricists. Tyler has a great mind for the music and the business. Frank Ocean is extremely talented and could drop a heralded piece of work at any time. Vince Staples puts out quality music at a decent clip. Domo Genesis is a super underrated rapper... If all those pieces decided to make a project together, the entire genre would take notice.
I can't say the same for ASAP though. They got Ferg and Rocky, and that's pretty much it. They lost their brainchild when Yams died.
Earl left
Staples was never Odd future
casey veggies was but he left
Its really tyler, ocean, domo, and hodgy at this point
and those loiter squad ? but thats a thread for another day
Hodgy not with them anymore.
Tyler, Syd, Domo is the only one left that claim the set.
Ocean is not really with them and Staples is the same.
ASAP group ? up by not being and staying consistent with the music. You can tell they just wilding and having fun right now, but yams was the one that pushed them and kept them focused
Syd is gone too she left after one of them fools ? in a bag on stage and passed that ? around to the crowd. Ugh nasty muthafuckas. Plus she wasnt feelin their homophobic lyrics
Odd future was done from the start they made weird music for weird muthafuckas.
I fck with Syd and Frank for the singing and Tyler cuz he is nice on the mic. But can't jam him or the rest of his squad cuz they just to out there. Can u imagine pulling up on some ? trying to talk to them and u got oddfuture playing with Tyler talkin bout eatin roaches and other odd ? . Them hoes gonna look at u crazy. Them odd future cats stay failing the whip test.
As for asap mob I fcks with that cozy tape heavy but the only cat I check for on a solo level is rocky -
Good looking out I like this a lot! -
sapp08_2001 wrote: »silverfoxx wrote: »Like Water wrote: »there wave and oddfuture is done basically
I think OF still has people doing it though. Earl is regarded as one of the best new lyricists. Tyler has a great mind for the music and the business. Frank Ocean is extremely talented and could drop a heralded piece of work at any time. Vince Staples puts out quality music at a decent clip. Domo Genesis is a super underrated rapper... If all those pieces decided to make a project together, the entire genre would take notice.
I can't say the same for ASAP though. They got Ferg and Rocky, and that's pretty much it. They lost their brainchild when Yams died.
Earl left
Staples was never Odd future
casey veggies was but he left
Its really tyler, ocean, domo, and hodgy at this point
and those loiter squad ? but thats a thread for another day
Hodgy not with them anymore.
Tyler, Syd, Domo is the only one left that claim the set.
Ocean is not really with them and Staples is the same.
ASAP group ? up by not being and staying consistent with the music. You can tell they just wilding and having fun right now, but yams was the one that pushed them and kept them focused
Syd is gone too she left after one of them fools ? in a bag on stage and passed that ? around to the crowd. Ugh nasty muthafuckas. Plus she wasnt feelin their homophobic lyrics
this just ruined my morning -
Yeah...only Rocky and Ferg really popped out the whole group.
Rocky another one of those rappers that kinda left his Original sound and went into some other ? . His falling out w/ SpaceGhostPurrp helped contribute to him leaving that sound. -
Odd Future had an Amazing and Refreshing sound to me...as "Odd" as it was, it was definitely Needed in Music.
I made a thread a While back saying that was the last Great Era in Hip Hop and ? told me i was Crazy...we wouldn't have to kake threads like this if i was Wrong -
JonnyRoccIT wrote: »Odd Future had an Amazing and Refreshing sound to me...as "Odd" as it was, it was definitely Needed in Music.
I made a thread a While back saying that was the last Great Era in Hip Hop and ? told me i was Crazy...we wouldn't have to kake threads like this if i was Wrong
Chill chill odd future the next thread lol
Let's keep it asap for now
Idk but to me they coulda been the dipset for the era of kids coming up today.
They just didn't handle it the way they could have though imo
Like the possibility of ASAP running NY radio..
But rocky from the jump wasn't just trying to do music and I'm not knocking him but i feel like he stretches himself so thin as far as interests that something like creating a full on movement is less important
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmaLgwy8DQI
