“And I guess initially, I was like, Man, did my crowd, did my cult following forget how to mosh? How to slam dance, how to fucking crowd surf, how to go all out? I mean obviously I’m the pretty motherfucker but for real, I like to go crazy in a mosh, that’s what I came here for! As soon as I got here, I went straight to the mosh pit, I didn’t even come in this dressing room. I kind of forgot that’s the same thing that happened with my album prior: I put it out, people fucked with it, and then throughout time people are, ‘Oh my God, this is a masterpiece,'” Rocky said. The two names Rocky signed in his years since his last album and most recent beneficiaries of that Rocky Effect are Playboi Carti, the Atlanta star responsible for last year’s summer banger. We caught up with Cary amidst his work on such projects as a yearbook of black creatives and an upcoming exhibition in Russia to discuss TESTING, his working relationship with Rocky, and the. Lauryn Hill, FKA twigs, Kid Cudi, Dev Hynes, Skepta, Playboi Carti. “Yeah, it was inspired by me feeling emotionally discouraged after I put out my album and I felt like the masses didn’t get it at the start. ASAP Rocky has released his new album Testing, which is quite the collaboration.Theres guest appearances from Frank Ocean, Ms. In an interview with GQ after the fourth annual Yams Day, Rocky describes how the reception to his third studio album inspired the name of his current tour, Injured Generation.
The project was another creative left turn for Rocky after the psychedelic, LSD-inspired experimentation of his sophomore album, At. A$AP Rocky’s Testing didn’t fare as well as his previous solo albums both critically and commercially.