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Tyrone S. Walker (born May 21, 1990), known by his stage name ASAP TyY (stylized as A$AP TyY), is an American rapper from the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. He joined hip hop collective ASAP Mob in 2014, from which he adopted his "A$AP" moniker.
In the summer of 2011, the group released music videos for Rocky's singles "Peso" and "Purple Swag", produced by ASAP Ty Beats. Rocky followed up with his mixtape Live.Love.ASAP in October, signing a record deal with Sony Music Entertainment that month.
Tyrone S. Walker, known by his stage name ASAP TyY, is an American rapper from the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. He joined hip hop collective ASAP Mob in 2014, from which he adopted his "A$AP" moniker.
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In May 2011, ASAP Rocky quit selling drugs and decided to focus on a career in rapping. He released a music video for his song "Purple Swag" in July, garnering Internet buzz and attention from record labels, despite negative feedback from his native hip hop scene in New York. He was courted by several labels, including the RCA-distributed Polo Grou...
ASAP Rocky recorded Live.Love.ASAP at Ishlab Music Studio in Dumbo, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. It was engineered by the studio's primary technicians Daniel Lynas and Frans Mernick. Several producers on the mixtape were associated with ASAP Mob, a collective that was formed by ASAP Rocky in 2007 and featured rappers, record producers, and...
Musically, Live. Love. ASAP incorporates characteristics from hip hop scenes outside of ASAP Rocky's hometown scene in Harlem, New York, including Midwest and Southern hip hop, particularly the hip hop production of Houston's scene. He grew up listening to Southern hip hop artists such as Geto Boys, UGK, Swishahouse, Mike Jones, Paul Wall, and Slim...
The mixtape's subject matter of moral decay incorporates controversial thematic elements of mainstream hip hop, including misogyny, glorified male promiscuity, and excessive drug use. Songs such as "Leaf", "Get Lit", and "Roll One Up" are odes to cannabis smoking. Music writers note the mixtape's perspective as that of a self-assured youth concerne...
An anticipated release among Internet tastemakers, Live. Love. ASAP was released as a free digital download on October 31, 2011. Two days after its release, A$AP Rocky proclaimed it to be "better than a lot of people's albums". The mixtape did not chartafter its release. The mixtape's lead single "Peso" was officially released on November 16. It ch...
Live. Love. ASAP was met with widespread critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional critics, the mixtape received an average score of 83, based on 12 reviews. Aggregator AnyDecentMusic?gave it 7.6 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus. Reviewing for The Irish T...
Credits for all tracks except "Purple Swag: Chapter 2", "Kissin' Pink" and "Out of This World" are adapted from Qobuz. Notes 1. ^[a] signifies a co-producer 2. The mixtape's 2021 streamingedition excluded the tracks "Purple Swag: Chapter 2", "Kissin' Pink" and "Out of This World", while adding on "Purple Swag" and the previously unreleased "Sandman...
Credits for Live. Love. ASAP adapted from AllMusic. 1. ASAP Ferg– performer 2. ASAP Nast– performer 3. ASAP Rocky– performer, producer 4. ASAP Twelvyy– performer 5. ASAP Ty Beats– producer 6. Beautiful Lou – producer 7. Chace Infinite – performer 8. Clams Casino– producer 9. Daniel Lynas – engineer, mixing 10. DJ Burn One– producer 11. Fat Tony– pe...
Aug 25, 2017 · Listen to music from A$AP Mob like Frat Rules (feat. A$AP Rocky, Playboi Carti & Big Sean), Raf (feat. A$AP Rocky, Playboi Carti, Quavo, Lil Uzi Vert & Frank Ocean) & more. Find the latest tracks, albums, and images from A$AP Mob.
The collective's resident record producer, ASAP Ty Beats, also carries the moniker and has produced several songs for his ASAP Mob cohorts, most notably Rocky's solo debut single "Peso".
ASAP Mob (stylized as A$AP Mob, ASAP being an acronym for "Always Strive and Prosper") [1] is an American hip hop collective formed in 2006 in Harlem, New York City, [2] that consists of rappers (all of whom carry the "ASAP" moniker; except Playboi Carti and the late Chynna), record producers, music video directors and fashion designers.
