{"id":63458,"date":"2013-03-27T11:20:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T10:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=63458"},"modified":"2013-03-26T23:33:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T22:33:07","slug":"alexander-wang-interviews-aap-rocky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/alexander-wang-interviews-aap-rocky\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Wang interviews A$AP Rocky"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Remember when hip-hop was all about guys rapping about their sneakers? It still is\u2014at least on one level\u2014in the world of A$AP Rocky, although the sneakers in question are more likely to be laceless Margielas. Of course, Rocky’s music encompasses much more than that, but it’s his intuitively reverent irreverence\u2014toward hip-hop, toward fashion, toward most things that operate in an orthodox or circumscribed way\u2014that has fueled his swift and sudden rise from fashion-obsessed mixtape hustler to idiosyncratic pop star. Within the last 18 months, he has signed a record deal worth a reported $3 million and recorded and released his proper debut, Long.Live.A$AP (Polo Grounds), which reached the top of the Billboard charts when it was released in January. He has also toured with Drake and Kendrick Lamar, co-directed a handful of his own videos, collaborated with Raf Simons, and was a near-ubiquitous presence at Fashion Week in New York City in February, even walking in a show for street label Hood by Air.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the interview HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember when hip-hop was all about guys rapping about their sneakers? It still is\u2014at least…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t