For instance, “1 Train,” a six-minute meet-up of seven rappers, starts off with Rocky boasting the extra O’s in his bank account, transitioning from a Lamborghini to a Mustang and flicking off a Chef Boyardee name-drop he proceeds to then get trounced by Lamar’s vocal acrobatics, Yelawolf’s brief thoughts on race in hip-hop and Danny Brown’s gonzo metaphors.įortunately, the second half of “$AP” finds Rocky settling in with more revealing subject matter, as tracks like “Fashion Killa” and “Suddenly” are impressively measured in their lyrical concepts.
“$AP” at times sags when the MC struggles to conjure anything to say aside from standard rap posturing and quickly scripted similes. Enter A$AP Rocky, another budding rap star who shared space with Lamar on Drake’s Club Paradise tour and recruited the Compton MC for two cuts on his own debut, “$AP.” Following his acclaimed 2011 mixtape, “$AP,” Rocky’s Polo Grounds/RCA debut is the most heavily anticipated debut hip-hop album since… “good kid, m.A.A.d city.” And while it’s wholly unfair to compare the two works based solely upon the proximity of their release dates, the already long shadow of Lamar’s musical coronation at times feels like a detriment to “$AP,” an album with a similar amount of dazzling production but nowhere near the lyrical chops of “good kid, m.A.A.d city.”Ī$AP Rocky, a 24-year-old Harlem native, is a blindingly charismatic figure, but is still trying to find himself as a rapper.
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