From the dudes that brought you “Hands on the Wheel,” “Brand New Guy,” and an epic Noisey back and forth, Schoolboy Q and A$AP Rocky are together again for a bonus track off Q’s Oxymoron. “Californication” lives up to the hype, and proves that these two together are a treat every time. Stay tuned for a full review of Oxymoron in the upcoming week.
This is a massive post. 2 parts. Mentally prepare yourself. We’ve picked out essential songs for every single situation you will find yourself in this summer. Guaranteed. Whether you’re: gearing up for a party, crusin’ down Lake Shore Drive, on the beach with friends, driving with people who only like The Beatles and hate everything else, rolling with the OG’s who miss 90’s music, hanging with the homies or trying to impress the ladies, itching for a chance to display your dance moves, or returning home alone after a great Chicago summer night, ACITM has got you covered. A comprehensive Spotify playlist is available at the bottom. Enjoy and feel free to add on!
The Classics
These are the songs you can get away with playing whenever, wherever during the summer season. Anyone can be at your party or in your car, and they will generally be ok with the tracks. The “I miss the golden era of music” people will even be satisfied.
ACITM where you at? MIA for a bit, traveling everywhere from Miami, Austin, France, Dublin, and Valencia. Back with the music video for A$AP Rocky’s Skrillex produced banger “Wild for the Night.” The video features the boys spending time in the Dominican Republic, riding mini motor cycles through the streets, walking around with strapped 8 year olds as protection, and playing the track for the DR crowd in a small venue, a size neither have seen probably in years. Awesome video, wonder what the budget was on this one. Watch below!
Brazen Detroit rapper Danny Brown will team up with New York producer Baauer for a string of dates this April dubbed “The Worst of Both Worlds” around their respective appearances at this year’s Coachella Festival. Baauer, the man behind the current Billboard number 1 hit “Harlem Shake”, has turned the party up across the world with his hip-hop influenced take on dance music. Fool’s Gold artist Danny has been hard at work finishing up Old, his follow-up to, XXX, the lauded 2011 record that help land him on the covers of XXL, The Fader and Wax Poetics, along with a coast-to-coast fall tour that had him performing along with fell 2012 standouts A$AP Rocky and Schoolboy Q. “The Worst of Both Worlds” kicks off April 9th in Houston, and runs through both weekends of Coachella.
A-Trak released the video to the “Piss Test” remix featuring Juicy J, Jim Jones, El-P, Flatbush Zombies, and Flosstradamus today. Directed by Shomi Patwary, the video features all the guys partying, partying, taking drugs, and partying hard. Patwary has directed videos for A$AP Rocky, Diplo, Wale, and more. Check it out below and let us know what you think.
After Kid Cudi announced to the world via twitter the release date of his upcoming album INDICUD, April 23rd if you missed it, the mighty internets have brought us the tracklist. The features on this thing are insane. Kendrick Lamar, Pusha T, Kanye West, A$AP Rocky, Schoolboy Q, J. Cole, Common, Ratatat, and MGMT to name a few. If this is real…we may have the album of the year already in April. Take a look below to see for yourself.
This track off DJ Spinatik’s upcoming Street Runnaz 72 mixtape sees the Pretty Muthafucka and Mr. Panty Wetter join forces to create a dope track that definitely would have been worthy of a spot on Long Live A$AP. Stream and download below.
Whoa. The most star studded track off Rocky’s upcoming debut, delivers. The HitBoy beat sees every rapper absolutely kill their verses. Whoa man. I’m still reeling after that one. Press play below and prepare yourself, this one’s going to be talked about for a while.
A$AP Rocky dropped the video for his latest single “F**ckin Problems” today featuring Drake, 2Chainz and Kendrick Lamar. Check out the video below and as Drake says in the song, “You should print the lyrics out and have a f*cking read-along.” Enjoy.
A really dope collab. Phantogram and Big Boi getting in the studio together was big news, and they made it even better by adding A$AP Rocky to the mix. Check out the song below. Big Boi’s new album Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors drops on Dec 11th.