It's been two years since A$AP Rocky released his debut album, Long.Live.A$AP. The 26-year old rapper, real name Rakim Myers, is ready to go with a new disc. No date is set, but he tells Billboard it's coming soon.
He also revealed surprise guest appearance by Lykke Li and FKA Twigs on the project.
You also have your sophomore album coming up. What's the state of it right now?
Honestly, it's finished. I'm mastering it right now. It's coming soon. Seriously soon.
Everyone's doing surprise albums -- Kendrick Lamar, Earl Sweatshirt. What about you?
I don't consider it a surprise -- you put it out there and it's art, that's the surprise. I hope people are surprised by my album. I don't know what to expect, I just do what I do.
What about it will surprise people?
How diverse it is. People really don't know the other side of me. The deeper side, the more musical side, the more intellectual side. When I first came on the scene it was more of this trendy, bourgeois, pizazz attitude. That's still me but at the end of the day I think that kind of overshadowed the whole purpose of me doing what I do. I'm an incredibly diverse artist, I'm a universal artist. At least that's how I see it.
Who are some of the collaborators on the album?
I got one for you. [Long pause] Illz is thinking right now, like, "You know who it is!" Uh… [Long pause] Alright, fine. Three years ago, I did a song with Twigs.
FKA Twigs? Wow.
Also Lykke Li. Juicy J [who appears on single "Multiply"]. Clams Casino. I can't give nothing else away.
I mentioned Kendrick's album, To Pimp a Butterfly, which everyone's talking about right now. What do you think about it?
I didn't really get a chance to really listen to it yet. When I listened to it I was with the fellas chilling and smoking and listening through a laptop. I like it. It was a bit jazzy as opposed to his aesthetic from the last album, which had more versatility. I kinda feel like it was one mood with this one. I really need to give it a good listen and come back to it because I skimmed through it. But the production is amazing and his lyrics is impeccable as usual. And the concept alone, being black and proud? I'm all for it.
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