Pryder omslaget på Complex april/maj-nummer och porträtteras i stor intervju.

Det senaste halvåret har minst sagt varit tumultartat för A$AP Rocky. I början av oktober stod det klart att han och flickvännen Chanel Iman valt att gå skilda vägar. Nu förklarar han varför han uttryckte sig kritikskt gentemot Iggy Azalea samt varför han i låten ”Multiply” sågade två av sina tidigare favoritmärken, Been Trill och Hood by Air, längs fotknölarna. Sedan dess har dessutom A$AP Yams, en av Rockys närmaste vänner, tragiskt gått bort efter en överdos.

Om detta och mycket mer berättar A$AP Rocky i det senaste numret av Complex, där han även pryder förstasidan. Intervjun finns att läsa i sin helhet här.

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OK, let’s go back to an old relationship: How do you feel about the criticism of Iggy Azalea for not being an “authentic” rapper?

That [situation with Iggy] is unfortunate because nobody wants to be portrayed that way. I’m quite sure she doesn’t. I think she works hard like the rest of us. Silly or not, 300 million people like to watch it on YouTube, so who the fuck are we to say anything?

So you don’t think the criticism is fair?

It comes with the game. If she fake on something, somebody is going to call her bluff. That’s life. I’m not looking at it from a standpoint of “I used to be boning this chick’s back out.” I’m looking at it [as] “She’s just a person.” You can’t bluff. You gotta just be 100. That’s all I could really say. The question is: Was she not being 100 about something?

People feel like she’s manufactured.

She’ll be fine. It gets to a point where people start accepting so much mediocre shit—accepting the minimum and the typical—to the point where everything gets so oversaturated that people don’t have a choice but to go back to the original, hardcore, raw [art]. Everything raw. Every aspect of art. It changes and it makes shifts.

Speaking of changes, the Been Trill/Hood By Air diss in “Multiply” really made noise. What was behind that?

It’s really nothing.

A lot of people cared.

No one cares.

You know that’s not true.

I don’t even think it’s worth talking about. [Those brands] just didn’t acknowledge or respect my shit. I feel like I started all that and niggas didn’t even acknowledge my shit. Or respect my shit.

// David Melander

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