A$AP Rocky's Dark, Drug Fueled ‘At. Long. Last. A$AP’ No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart [Watch]
Rapper A$AP Rocky boasts his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with "At. Long. Last. A$AP," Billboard reported on Wednesday.
The new album follows the Harlem rapper's first studio album "Long.Live.A$AP," which debuted Feb. 2, 2013 with an impressive 139,000 copies sold.
As Latin Post previously reported, Rocky's latest album made headlines before capturing the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 due to the raunchy lyrics on the track "Better Things." The track alleges a sexual tryst with recording artist Rita Ora before maliciously attacking the "Poison" singer by calling her a b***h, among other things.
"At. Long. Last. A$AP," one of the most highly anticipated hip-hop albums of the year, chronicles the "Fashion Killa" rapper's drug use, fame and grief over the January overdose death of his friend ASAP Yams, who co-founded the ASAP Mob. While Yams' memory pervades the album, Rocky has not learned the lesson from Yam's demise as he admittedly was under the influence of drugs while creating the record.
Los Angeles Times music critic Randall Roberts described the record as "Raw, woozy, profoundly psychedelic and often brilliant," and said that "Rocky's second studio album is awash with hallucinogenic texture."
The track "L$D" captures that description superbly with a honeyed beat that sets the backdrop to lyrics that detail tripped-out sexcapades.
"At. Long. Last. A$AP" contains A-List collaborations, some rather surprising. Legendary crooner Rod Stewart joins Rocky, Mark Ronson and San Pedro-born Miguel on the first single, "Everyday."
A "Jukebox Joints" is a collaboration among Rocky, Kanye West and Joe Fox.
In a May 28 interview with HotNewHipHop, Rocky talked about the song "Canal St." and how it came together borrowing from Rocky's hustling days and Bones Badazz's beat.
"What happened was, I saw it online and I thought it was fire. I was like, 'yo Yams, you ever heard of this kid Bones?' He was like, 'yeah of course I know Bones,'' Rocky told HotNewHipHop. "I wanna tell him I wanna f**k with that 'Dirt' song, and he was like, 'bet, bet, I got you.' And Yams just linked it up."
In the interview video, he also talks about Lil Wayne's verse on "M'$" and how Yams pushed for it. "He went mixtape Weezy on that one," Rocky says.
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