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Originally Posted by noisereductions
right right... I LIKE Cozy Tapes. I like it a lot actually. But it is one of three records fighting for the spot of #10 on my Top 10 list this year. Y'know? It's a good album. It's solid. There's no duds.
BUT as a bit of an A$AP Mob obsesso, I've come to expect mind-blow each time out. LORD knows they make us wait long enough for proper releases.
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Yeah, they really did drag their feet, only to give us a product that's probably not as strong as the LORD$ Never Worry tape.
But you're right. I've come to expect greatness from Rocky. I've never been able to get into A$AP Ferg, but Jesus Christ... LONG.LIVE.A$AP was such a strong record that it pretty much owned every 2013 hip-hop album with the exception of Yeezus (duh.) And 2013 was a hell of a year with strong competition from established artists and mixtape-slingin' newcomers alike. As much as I love My Name is My Name, I think Rocky's album was better. It was also better than 12 Reasons too Die, Old, Indigoism, and even Acid Rap! All this DESPITE the presence of fuckin' Skrillex and goddamn Yellawolf!
At.Long.Last.A$AP actually has a higher score on metacritic I think, but good as it was (I still LOVE "Excuse Me," one of my favorite tracks of 2015) I think there was already some sign of a growing lack of focus at that point.
Louder, I hope you're wrong. That it wasn't just Yams who made the A$AP of 2012/2013 such a force of nature. Rocky claims he took "time off" to learn to produce, but he was already producing on LONG.LIVE. So maybe there's hope? Hope that it wasn't just Yams and a confluence of incredible production talents (notably Clams Casino, but also Hit-Boy, Mike Dean) and awesome features (Kendrick, Santigold, Schoolboy, Danny Brown, Bronson) that were responsible for that album being able to throw down with some of the best names in the game.
But... realistically... rappers tend to come and go pretty quickly. It's not rare for an artist to seemingly start a revolution, only to end up largely forgotten half a decade later.