Music: A$AP Rocky - TESTING

Out of the most of the A$AP Mob, Rocky is the one that I expect to come with the heat when he brings out project. LONG LIVE and AT LONG LAST A$AP were great albums and had some great songs on it from start to finish. Unfortunately I cannot say the same about this one. A lot of the song just seem like an experiment that went wrong. Frankenstein’s monster, trying to cure Alzheimer’s in Planet of the Apes, the American projects to name a few. I am all for trying something new but the problem with this is that it doesn’t sound good. Like all the sub base at the start of the project in Distorted Records, I felt like my brain was rattling in my skull.

Also the biggest problem with the project is that it lacks the quotables that makes Rocky a serious rapper. When you have bars like:

This year, I turned into a racist,
All i want to see is green faces,
All I want to count is green numbers,
That shit is weird looking like the matrix,

From Electric Body (feat. Schoolboy Q)

When compared to some of what I heard on this album some of it wasn’t even comprehensible or don’t even make sense:

Homeboy you ain’t know (ends where they buck shot)
Had a bitch suckin’ on a lollipop at the bus stop
Green Glock, Red Glock (buck shot) ??????????

From Buck Shots on the album TESTING

Glocks do not shoot buck shots!!!! Like what is this bar talking about? This is part of the problem with this album. I have no problem with swag rapping, which I usually hold the A$AP Mob in high regard for. But if your just saying things for the sake of it, it ends up degrading the whole experience. And after the first few songs this is most of TESTING for me. So for now it pains me to say it but A$AP Twelvvy is the only one in the Mob who hasn’t taken L’s lately.