Nardwuar vs. A$AP Rocky

Canadian interviewer Nardwuar has been in the game so long that I learn something about music with each video I watch. His oddness is offset by the heartfelt gifts that he offers to his subjects, and the deep study that he must engage in to come up with them. I so very want to be on the same level of knowledge that he and the musicians have attained that I picked out one of his hundreds of videos with a factoid that I can relate to myself: I have eaten chicken from Amy Ruth’s (as mentioned near 8:20). And it was nice chicken.

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A$AP Rocky, “Fuckin’ Problems”

I now have a computer capable of running Spotify, so I’ve just been popping open recent Pitchfork reviews and catching up on all the music I’ve abstained from streaming at dead-horse-speed over the past five months. Tonight was A$AP’s newest, which I had heard over the holidays (so cheerful, so seasonal), but this time homed my ear in on his rhythm— frantic and chillingly controlled. It, along with Drake’s and Kendrick’s, is at top form on this one, in which they run laps around a beat that trickles out like someone with a problem fucking.

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