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Plus, Rocky answers questions from Raf Simons, André 3000, Mahershala Ali, and added for the awning of GQ Style’s anniversary issue.
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Our account with A$AP Rocky was declared to booty abode backstage afterwards an A$AP Mob concert in Philly, in a quiet, abandoned room, but in the moment, Rocky had a bigger idea. “We charge to abduction this anarchy appropriate here,” he said, gesturing about his bathrobe room, still arranged with Mob members, girls, aegis guards, added anonymous loiterers, and alike (according to A$AP Ferg, anyway) a apart mouse. “Let's embrace the chaos,” Rocky suggested. “Rolling Stones in 1967, feel me?”
He took his atom in the average of a covering couch, amidst by his old accompany from Harlem—Ferg, Nast, Ant, and Twelvyy—and started absolutely breaking bottomward a baby bank of edger as he batten in a post-concert rasp. Every so often, he'd aggravate me for allurement so abounding questions. But some of them he didn't apperception so much: GQ Appearance had calm them from a few of Rocky's notable accompany and admirers, with a affiance of bringing aback answers.
The anarchy Rakim Mayers attracts is a aftereffect of his charisma, which is raw and uncut. It is el puro, conceivably the purest of any brilliant in pop culture—Hollywood, music, fashion, whatever. And accustomed that Rocky's mom alleged him and his ancient sister, Erika B. Mayers, afterwards Eric B. & Rakim, it was alone accustomed that a kid who seems to crank up the blush assimilation whenever he walks into a allowance would approach his God-given wattage into rap music. From the beginning, though, Rocky additionally accustomed himself as a appearance innovator and fabricated appearance an adherent allotment of his music. In his blemish video, for “Peso,” he repped hard-edged, gothic-leaning streetwear like Atramentous Scale, as able-bodied as added accustomed beat appearance like Rick Owens and Y3, while rapping, Raf Simons, Rick Owens usually what I'm dressed in. That was aback in 2011, continued afore he anchored Simons's absurd hip-hop-icon cachet with the song “Raf” this July. It's not a amplitude to say Rocky is partially amenable for authoritative European aerial appearance as abundant a allotment of hip-hop and pop ability as streetwear.
In the six years aback he aboriginal appeared on YouTube, aggregate he's affected has taken on a array of bewitched flyness. He's put out three acknowledged abandoned albums; recorded hit songs like “L$D,” “Yamborghini High” with the A$AP Mob, and “Fuckin Problems” with Drake, Kendrick Lamar, and 2 Chainz; blanket scenes in the surprise-hit indie blur Dope, co-starring Shameik Moore; and launched a artistic agency, alleged AWGE. Afterwards this year, he'll arise in Anthony Mandler's Monster and he'll activate a wide-ranging, abiding accord with Under Armour. He's become a rap star, a appearance godhead, a music mogul, an actor, a designer-entrepreneur-influencer—a accurate artistic in universes breadth anybody calls themselves creatives.
Now, afterwards two years spent cutting up all those hyphens, he is accessible to acknowledgment to the aboriginal affair that fabricated him: rap music. But things are a little altered this time. In January 2015, Rocky's best friend, business partner, and mentor, A$AP Yams, anesthetized abroad in bed at his Brooklyn accommodation from an adventitious prescription-drug overdose. Rocky was there the night of Yams's afterlife and was amid those who begin him. A few months later, in May, Rocky appear At.Long.Last.A$AP; on the anthology cover, Rocky's face bears Yams's signature purplish red birthmark. This new anthology will be Rocky's fourth, but his aboriginal anytime fabricated absolutely afterwards the allegorical attendance of Yams.
When we met in London for the GQ Appearance awning shoot, Rocky was abysmal in his assignment zone, aggravating to accomplishment the record. He was befitting his buzz angry off, added or less, so he could try to complete the LP afore jumping to Milan for the Gucci aerodrome appearance and afresh abiding to the States for a continued bout with the Mob. He's 29 now—he's apparent a lot, and alike his accompany accept questions about breadth he's been and breadth he's activity next.
GQ Style: The aboriginal catechism comes from Mahershala Ali: “Considering you were alleged afterwards Rakim, one of the greatest MCs of all time, what allegorical MC would you name your adolescent after?”
A$AP Rocky: Wow, that's a acceptable one. Let me anticipate on it.
You're punting on the aboriginal question?
Yeah, but alone because it's so good.
All right, we'll appear aback to it. The additional catechism comes from Dior artisan Kris Van Assche. You may accept heard of him.
A$AP Twelvyy: From Paris!
Kris asks, “What was a archetypal Friday or Saturday night out for you like aback you were a teenager?”
A$AP Ferg: Angry in clubs.
Rocky: Oh, you appetite me to acquaint them the Santos story?
Ferg: You adulation cogent that story.
Rocky: All right, one time in Santos [Party House, a New York City nightclub], it was like 2008. We took the alternation from Harlem. I had on this Marc Jacobs shirt, these D&G pants—'cause I was cutting D&G aback then—and Marc Jacobs sneakers. Ferg, you had on the atramentous Acne pants, with the dejected jean jacket, and Nast, you had the dejected jean anorak with the seam, with the atramentous Acne pants, and the atramentous Timbs, with the Super glasses on, with the 'fro, 'cause you was on your Jay-Z shit, aggravating to wolf up. A lot of A$AP associates were there that day. I'ma appear clean, we was in the club, and A$AP Bari was aggravating to allocution to some dude's girlfriend. Abutting affair you know, the dude got mad. He looked like some angry dude. He was big, with continued hair. He's like, “What?!” to everybody. We was like, “Yo, chill,” but he kept activity crazy. So [Harlem-based beheld artist] Jay West put him in a headlock, I snuffed him, he fell, everybody kicked him, we all dispersed, we ran.
A$AP Nast: Let's allocution about the Ferg punches.
Rocky: Don't balloon about the Ferg punches! Ferg said, “Don't blow my friend!” Boom, boom, boom! [laughter]
Ferg: I did not say that.
Rocky: That bits was alveolate through the man's body! Aback the dude got up, the aboriginal actuality he atom was me with the blush shirt on, so he aloof alpha charging, like a mad angry bull, and he affective my head. Now we on the motherfucking ball floor, angry like females, affairs anniversary other's hair. I'm bitter this motherfucker's deride and pinkie and shit, activity crazy, snuffing him. This motherfucker must've been on mollies and liquor. Abutting affair you know, I aloof see anxiety active my way. Ferg came through. Nigga said, “Get off my friend!” Ferg was mad concerned. It was sincere. He was like, “Get off my friend!”
Ferg: I did not say that.
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Rocky: So then, we all leave out the club. We outside. Your man, he was a administrator of the club, so he appear out, bugging out with his aegis guards. He bandy ice at all of us and hops in a cab. We run bottomward on the cab, booty him out the cab, and alpha assault him up while we're agreeable “A$AP!” So that's how everybody knew us aback then. Abutting question.
What's your cardinal one priority?
Right now, it's music. Last year was businesses and developing all our new artists. Playboi Carti went platinum. Smooky MarGielaa is on the rise. Twelvyy anthology came out. A$AP Ferg mixtape came out—he consistently got cardinal ones and bangers. Nast, Addie, up next. Comfortable Tapes Vol. 2 is out appropriate now. Now it's all about me authoritative music again.
What do you say to bodies who say that you're “more appearance than music”?
I can see why they anticipate that sometimes. I absolutely capital to booty time out to appearance bodies I was an entrepreneur. I'm a businessman—you gotta booty me serious. I can't admonition that I attending acceptable accomplishing it. But if you aloof attending at my archive from this year, aggregate I get on, I body. I'm careful about what I get on. I'm particular. I wasn't absolutely featuring with added artists. But this year, I'm assuming niggas stop arena me, stop sleeping on me. I'm the god of this shit.
So aback we saw you in London recently, you were on a phone-off lockdown, authoritative an album. What was the vibe—the starting point for the new album?
My new anthology is absolutely about testing new sounds. Bodies are afraid to analysis new sounds, so they go with what's accepted 'cause it's the accessible affair to do. The top 100 songs complete a assertive way. Bodies baby added to that because it's a bigger demographic abaft that, or it's a affirmed demographic abaft that. I adopt to agreement and accept my army abound with me and to ability new crowds. I don't aloof rap—I absolutely accomplish music. That's why it takes time. These sonics represent me.
Did you go to London for the complete of London, or was it added aloof accepting abroad so you could focus?
Both. London has a air-conditioned sound. I consistently almanac in London. But I bare to get away. London's my additional home.
When do you appetite to put the anthology out?
Your biking agenda is intense. Aback you're consistently on the move, where's your center, or your home? Do you anytime deathwatch up in addition auberge allowance and wonder, “Who am I?”
Fuck no. Sometimes I do deathwatch up like, “Where the fuck am I?” But not “Who am I?” I'm the aforementioned nigga I was aback I went to sleep.
You've had relationships with Dior and Gucci. You accept to accept a claimed accord with Raf. How do you characterize those connections?
Sometimes it's business, and sometimes it's friendship. Raf had me aerial out to Antwerp so I could smoke my edger and aloof bolt a vibe with him aback in 2012 and 2013. I've been attractive at him and [Rick Owens's wife and muse] Michèle Lamy for advice. Michèle Lamy is like my bogie godmom.
What do you and Michèle allocution about aback it's not Paris Appearance Week double-kiss time?
Art. She's the acumen I got all these chunk in my mouth. She had chastening aback 1985. She puts me on. She tries to accomplish me advance as an artist. She encourages me to do added things alfresco of agreeable arts—more abreast art. She accomplished me the aberration amid masters and Renaissance and abreast and Pop art. It's been a journey. Raf, we allocution about collections, we allocution about his admired scenes—what babble scenes aggressive best of his career.
Do you allocution with them about, like, animosity and claimed stuff? Or is it mostly art and the industry?
Yeah, Michèle Lamy be hooking me up with all blazon of models—not all blazon of models, but her accompany who she thinks is sweet. She says, “You charge to accommodated her, she's a nice girl…,” and I go accommodated her. They either crazy or nice.
Here's a catechism from Raf Simons.
Oh, that's my guy. That's the aristocrat appropriate there, big bro.
“If you could not do what you're accomplishing now, what would you do? What's addition activity dream of yours?”
If I wasn't accomplishing this, to be absolute with you, I'd apparently be an autogenous decorator.
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Nast: You could be a florist.
Rocky: Yeah, I could. I accept such acceptable taste. I adulation flowers. I anticipate adornment amount and feng shui is important. If not, I'd be a video administrator or a blur director. But my accomplished life, I aloof capital to be a rapper. That was it.
The Balenciaga sneakers that you wore in our shoot: They're a little controversial, and I would like to apperceive why you like them.
I apparent those early, and I like them 'cause they admonish me of a Raf Simons sneaker, and on top of that, those shits are fire—
A$AP Ant: Bits is trash—
Rocky: He's antisocial 'cause he got the affected Rick Owens Balenciaga shits. I don't fuck with them shits. I alone fucks with the ones I got. I alarm 'em the Larry Davids, you feel me?
You've been cutting a lot of chicken recently—shoelaces, hoodies, et cetera. What's the deal?
You ask a lot of questions. I'm aloof advancing for a final test, that's all.
Okay, well, the abutting catechism is from Shameik Moore.
“What admonition do you accept for accepting added artistic with your claimed style?”
Nast: Abrasion what apparel you and not what's trendy.
Rocky: Yeah, but aback we abrasion actuality that apparel us and not what's trendy, it becomes a trend. So that ability be ambagious for people. I would aloof say that everybody's different. Everybody got altered anatomy shapes and whatnot, so I would say stick to what you apperceive fits you best and what you feel adequate in, alike if it's not in style. Aloof abrasion whatever makes you feel cozy.
Nast: That's affectionate of what I aloof said.
Your artistic group, AWGE: Aboriginal of all, how do you accent it? Additional of all, what is it?
Nast: That catechism we don't allege of.
Rocky: The aboriginal aphorism of AWGE is you never echo what AWGE stands for. Additional aphorism of AWGE is, whenever in doubt, accredit to the aboriginal rule. So there you accept it.
Is it not “A$AP Worldwide Global Enterprises”?
Nah. You on some bullshit. That's sacred.
What accept you abstruse about administration aback the Mob's acceleration into the accessible consciousness?
Fellowship. Brotherhood. I try to apparent administration into annihilation I do as an entrepreneur, as a businessman. But aback I'm accomplishing music, it's the aspect with the brothers. We all advance by archetype and advance anniversary other, so I advance and follow, too, you know?
You aloof appear a new accord with Under Armour. Why Under Armour? And what can we expect?
People would assume, with me activity into a business accord with a sports brand, that it would be all about designing or curating a line—making things added lit. But what I admired about Kevin Plank, the CEO of Under Armour, was that he had a vision. He gives, gives, gives. Aback you accord or you do charities, it's not about assuming bodies “Look, I'm accomplishing this.” I was in a apartment myself. And I apperceive that aback bodies be altruistic and shit, you ain't get no fly bits at Christmases and all that. You don't see no money. Pardon my French, but you don't see no money. So I absolutely appetite to accomplish a difference. So I got with Kevin and Under Armour so we could accessible up absolute rec centers with fly bits in them. Not hand-me-down toys and technology—new stuff. And programs for kids to apprentice to become entrepreneurs, designers, athletes. They can screen-print their own tees and advertise 'em from the store, get that agency on it. I anticipate it's smart. Those kids charge laptops and phones today—that's their platform. So I appetite to do article that's absolutely gonna accomplish a difference, as against to against with the cameras like, “Ah, I'm accomplishing this, accomplishing that.” We gonna appearance and prove aback we go and architecture uniforms. We're gonna alpha in New York, the tristate area, 'cause that's breadth I'm from. And afresh go to altered inferior aerial schools and aerial schools throughout the country.
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But business actuality commerce, you're activity to accept to advertise some actuality to armamentarium those programs. So are you gonna architecture a band with Under Armour? A$AP Rocky sneakers?
I'm talking about giving abroad to schools. That's not selling, bro—you don't accomplish any money off of that. What are you talking about? I appetite to facilitate agency for kids to get bigger apprenticeship afterwards calling it education, 'cause that bits sounds boring. I appetite to accomplish a way for actuality acute to be cool. There's annihilation amiss with actuality a thinker. Breadth I'm from, actuality acute has a abrogating connotation—that agency you awash out, that agency you're a geek. I'm aloof aggravating to say, “Fuck all that. This is the plan: You are the future, that added bits is the past, so let's accomplish a bigger way.” And if I feel like designing some bits with Under Armour, I will.
Question from André 3000.
“What hidden aptitude do you accept that alone your parents or abutting bodies know?”
Twelvyy: He's acceptable at arena Pokémon and shit. Yo, you see him with like 500 Pokémon cards.
Nast: He's the best at double-Dutching.
A hidden talent—something maybe alone your mom knows.
Well, we ability accept to alarm my moms, then. [pauses to think] I affectation mostly all my talents. Right? I'm creative, intricate—angelic at moments. You gonna accomplish me complete absolute arrogant appropriate now talking about myself. Why don't you acquaint me what it is?
Well, there's a additional catechism from 3000: “What amusement or ability would you like to be accomplishing that is absolutely alfresco music or fashion?”
I appetite to architecture furniture. Maybe a sofa. Or a bed.
Ferg: You did architecture one of your beds in the house.
Rocky: I apperceive I did, but I appetite to advertise my joints. That was aloof me testing.
Switching gears: What does God attending like?
Everybody has a altered God. I don't apperceive if God is a female, male, or alike in animal form. I adjure to somebody. Religion is deep. Everybody got a altered God, but I aloof account everybody for their beliefs. It is what it is. I'm added airy than anything. Because I acquisition flaws and bucking in a lot of religions, respectfully, and I aloof booty the acceptable out of all religions and try to convenance to be a bigger person.
Yes, I adjure every day. I adjure over cookies. I say my grace, beeline up and down.
You've accomplished accident in your family. A few times over the years, as far as I know, and afresh you guys as accompany and collaborators and a aggregation accomplished the accident of Yams. Do you feel like you've grieved, or did you aloof accumulate working?
Keep working. I'm not gonna lie. Because if we ache it, it ability booty aggregate out of us. [long silence]
How'd you get the blister on your face?
When I was 15, I had a action with some niggas in the Bronx, on Arthur Avenue. This earlier guy gun-butted me while we was fighting. He was aggravating to rob my Pelle Pelle jacket. I still kept it, though. It was bloody. My sister Erika bought me that for Easter. I wasn't about to accord my bits up. Fuck outta here. If you've anytime apparent Jim Jones's “Certified Gangsters” video, he had it on in black. I had it in white with the bright Easter P's on it.
All right, so we're aback to breadth we started—the catechism from Mahershala Ali. “Considering you're alleged afterwards Rakim, one of the greatest MCs of all time, what allegorical MC would you name your adolescent after?”
Ferg: Yami's not a MC, though.
Rocky: No, he was a singer, bro. He was an R&B singer. As far as rapper…I'd apparently name my adolescent Pharrell.
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Ferg: I knew he was gonna say that.
This adventure originally appeared in the Anniversary affair of GQ Appearance with the appellation Inside “The Unruly World Of ASAP Rocky.”
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