You know, a lot of rappers been putting out a lot of sub-par visuals. And that's why there's a void that needs to be filled that I feel like that's where I come into place, as far as visually. MUHAMMAD: Is there something visually of the now modern period that has really struck you and has been you think really influential or will be something that people will kind of look towards and speak about like 20, 50 years from now?Ī$AP FERG: I feel like no.
Whatever, like, I'm inspired by at the time. Or just like trees or nature or buildings. And visually, like sometimes colors motivate what I want to do. And I don't even - like sometimes I don't even check the voice note to do the beat or make the song. Sometimes I can't sleep cause I can't get a melody or a beat out my head so I just have to wake up and like record it on a voice note. KELLEY: Why are you sometimes inspired to make things for the ear and sometimes the eye? And how do you know whether like a feeling should go into a song or should go into something visual?Ī$AP FERG: It's just a feeling I get. And that's - I just felt like expressing myself through that medium that particular day, or those days. KELLEY: Yo, what is that all about? Where does that come from?Ī$AP FERG: I just woke up and felt like doing it.Ī$AP FERG: On some Beyoncé type ish: "I woke up like this."Ī$AP FERG: Probably not. In New York, people are like, "He's got face paint on? I'm going to go to the other car."Ī$AP FERG: Yeah, I had like warrior face paint on. MUHAMMAD: "Let me leave this dude alone." MUHAMMAD: You would think that would bring more attention to you.Ī$AP FERG: Nah but I had the hoodie on so it was like, "Who's this bugged out dude on the train?" Like, I had this tribal face paint on so they probably didn't even recognize me off the bat. But like just recently this week, I, like, been taking the train and it's been cool.Īnd I had face paint. I can't take the train no more." So that's when I stopped taking the train. So I mean, it's cool but it was weird at first because it's like, "Damn. I was just listening to 'Kissin' Pink.' Yo, you blacked on that song with," like, whoever I was on the song with. But sometimes I've gotten people stand over me like, "Yo, I was just listening to your song. Just so people - like, I'd be sleeping on the train and then by the time I hear my stop, I'd get up and just leave. I used to put my head in my lap all the time. KELLEY: What happens when people recognize you?Ī$AP FERG: Well, when I used to take the train a lot, like before, I used to sleep. But, like, I throw a hoodie on and things like that. MUHAMMAD: Did people recognize you on the train?Ī$AP FERG: They do all the time. And it kinda brought me back to that place of like, "Yeah. So I was just taking the train like, man - and then just me, the feel of me taking the train just reminded me of when I didn't have much or when I was just starting. And you know, I even been taking the train lately cause Fashion Week was so crazy like - due to Fashion Week being also All-Star Week, Fashion Week/All-Star Week, the roads was blocked, like, all the time. MUHAMMAD: So I did something about it and I'm in LA now.Ī$AP FERG: But you know what? It's something about New York that - I love the urgency that we have out here.Ī$AP FERG: It makes you want to hustle and grind. I'm a baby when it comes to the cold and last year I made the decision that, after that last winter, that I don't have to do it anymore. I hate -= doing videos is, like, really a challenge when it's cold.
MUHAMMAD: It's kinda difficult to do a couple things when it's cold. She was - we're battling each other, like through FaceTime.Ī$AP FERG: They had me dancing all day yesterday so I think that's what it was. It's a song I got called "Dope Walk." And basically it's like me and Cara Delevingne, you know, the supermodel. They had me dancing yesterday cause I was shooting a video. MUHAMMAD: You're too young to speaking like that, first of all.Ī$AP FERG: Yeah, man. No, I do feel the pain, the struggle.Ī$AP FERG: I feel the pain in my joints, my bones, man. Trying to get to LA because this New York weather is killing me. The pillar of New York's ASAP Mob spoke about his aesthetic choices, the way he imagines our far off future and what he's learned from Missy Elliott.Ī$AP FERG: I'm A$AP Ferg from the A$AP Mob.Ī$AP FERG: I'm taking it easy. Microphone Check sat down with ASAP Ferg in February, just before he released the video for " Doe-Active," a song off his November mixtape, Ferg Forever.
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