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A$AP Rocky – Multiply (Feat. Juicy J)

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The very minimal/menacing “Multiply” is the new single from A$AP Rocky. On “Multiply” A$AP rides a complex but still familiar flow on top a commanding instrumental. We’re into this swerve palette-wise against current mainstream rap (Mustard on the beat hoe) from A$AP Rocky and are very much into “Multiply”.

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Rating 8.3

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10-03-14

A$AP ROCKY – 1TRAIN (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Joey Bada$$, Yelawolf, Danny Brown, Action Bronson & Big K.R.I.T.)

Asap Rocky’s debut LongLiveASAP is due to drop on January 15th – and this track wants to make sure everybody knows how important that’s going to be: “1Train” goes in heavy and squeezes a plethora of big names into 6 minutes of triumphant beats, think of this as 2012’s executive summary of hip-hop. By Nathan Hetherington

A$AP ROCKY – 1TRAIN (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Joey Bada$$, Yelawolf, Danny Brown, Action Bronson & Big K.R.I.T.)

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Rating 8.3

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12-18-12

Big Boi – Lines (feat. A$AP Rocky & Phantogram)

Big Boi strikes again with yet another mother of a collaboration with “Lines” on his forthcoming Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors LP 12/11/12. Preview the latest psych-funk blast into the future below.

Big Boi – Lines (feat. A$AP Rocky & Phantogram)

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Rating 8.3

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11-09-12

Usher feat A$AP Rocky – Hot Thing (Prod. The Neptunes)

Usher… A$AP… Neptunes?! Could B3SCI ever lie to you? Press play!

Usher feat A$AP Rocky – Hot Thing (Prod. The Neptunes)

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Rating 8.4

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06-05-12

Swizz Beatz – Street Knock (Feat. A$AP Rocky) (Prod. AraabMUZIK)

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AraabMUZIK is ON FIRE! Swizz Beatz is not a great rapper but with support from AM’s producing-out-of-his-mind level beat he sounds at least competent here (if not enjoyable). The hipster hammer A$AP Rocky is on the feature here and easily holds up his part of the song with a fresh set of rhymes.

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Rating 8.3

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03-22-12

Schoolboy Q – Hands on the Wheel (Feat. A$AP Rocky)

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One of the standout tracks on Q’s just released Habits and Contradictions mixtape, “Hands on the Wheel” features A$AP Rocky and is that sort of fist-pumping-in-the-air making-it-rain-every-night-of-the-week victory rap that puts proper punctuation on the sort of run that Schoolboy Q is in the middle of right now.

Schoolboy Q – Hands on the Wheel (Feat. A$AP Rocky)

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Rating 8.4

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01-15-12

ASAP Rocky – Leaf (Feat. Main Attrakionz) (Prod. Clams Casino)

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ASAP, MA, Clams. Witness. ASAP squad, ASAP team.

ASAP Rocky – Leaf (Feat. Main Attrakionz) (Prod. Clams Casino)

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Rating 8.3

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10-31-11

ASAP Rocky – Out of This World

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Probably our favorite new MC, our man ASAP inked a deal with RCA last week. First Harlem, then the world. The buttery, piano-driven “Out of This World” goes ASAP in. ASAP.

ASAP Rocky – Out of This World

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Rating 8.3

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10-18-11

ASAP Rocky – Purple Swag (Jim-E Stack Bootleg)

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Stacks on stacks on stacks. Jim-E Stack’s bootleg of “Purple Swag” is about as sick as it gets. Garage Hop or GTFO.

ASAP Rocky – Purple Swag (Jim-E Stack Bootleg)

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Rating 8.4

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09-17-11

Main Attrakionz & ASAP Rocky – UGK

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MA & ASAP jump on a fresh retooling of Art of Noise’s “Moments in Love” (fav sample of all time!). $100,000 rap.

Main Attrakionz & ASAP Rocky – UGK

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Rating 7.9

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08-26-11

Main Attrakionz & ASAP Rocky – Take 1 (Prod. Clams Casino)

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Two of the hottest MCs in the game right now link up with one of the hottest producers in the universe. Space age heat.

Main Attrakionz & ASAP Rocky – Take 1 (Prod. Clams Casino)

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Rating 8.3

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08-18-11

Kate Bollinger – Do U Go Out Together?

Virginia singer Kate Bollinger sets her cool melodic alto to a hazy keys-driven instrumental that as a track sounds that it’d be equally at home in A$AP Rocky’s air pods as he’s ambling by the Seine as it does on this very dusty not so A$AP SF bus I’m on right now. Great track.

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