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With as much hype as he’s getting right now, there’s bound to be a backlash from non-believers and a parade of on-boarders. The key to ASAP’s appeal lies in his style and his ability to pick out a bunch of cool things, throw them in the melting pot, and cook up something that feels fresh. Put them all together, though? That's a different story. If you pick out any single element of this mixtape, you can most likely tie it directly to a piece of hip-hop history. Whether it’s the Houston sound or that Bone Thugs flow, it’s impossible to ignore the fact that everything he’s doing has been done before. Reaction: ASAP Rocky isn’t doing anything new. The hood gon’ love it, the hipsters gon’ love it. A$AP struck a balance by rhyming like a parking lot pimp over warped beats. Other rappers who have attempted this new school formula ran the risk of being bludgeoned to death by Hip-Hop purists. The abstractness of LiveLoveA$AP is no doubt due in part to Clams Casino’s (Nutley, NJ stand up) swirly psychotropic production. That and he sounds like Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s cousin ('Trilla').

While this new age of Tumblr Rap can be grating at times, A$AP Rocky has a keen understanding of how to accurately slide genre-bending sounds into the Hip-Hop landscape (peep 'Peso' and 'Wassup'). LiveLoveA$AP was the true test, and he succeeded with flying colors. It was hard to gauge his longevity within the bars he spit in those cameos. A$AP’s been frequenting the Hulkshare circuit for a second, popping up here and there on some of his peers’ web cuts.

I had my doubts about A$AP Rocky, because I don’t trust rappers with dollar signs in their names (unless you’re Too $hort). Reaction: In this era of Hip-Hop, it’s hard to distinguish which rappers will have a future beyond two mixtapes. THE CONSENSUS PANEL: Kathy Iandoli ( ), Andrew Barber ( ), Confusion ( ), Roger Guerrilla, ( TheMaskedGorilla), Karen Civil ( ), Combat Jack (Daily Mathematics), Nathan Slavik ( DJBooth), Paul Cantor (PaulJCantor), Modi ( DCtoBC/The Great Progression), and Insanul Ahmed ( Complex).

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