Jul 30, 2020·edited·1 replyI like some of the songs, but this album is still a major let down to me. Like how are you gonna keep your fans waiting for three years on new music and keep teasing an album and then drop something that felt like it was made in 2 months? You could tell it was because all of the vocals sound tired out from touring so much. The T.I. feature tease, call drop$ (I’m still not sure what they were thinking with that one) and a bunch of left over tracks just ruin this for me.
Not to mention it’s called “Testing.” As if to indicate that this was an album experimenting with new sounds and ideas. This is pretty standard, even for Rocky’s standards.
(Tone Bone OG Beeper are great tho)
Jul 30, 2020Hun43rd is Asap Rocky's top 3 songs
Jul 30, 2020·1 replyif this album had a different name it would be received very differently
Jul 30, 2020Second half of this album is Rockys greatest work. If the album started at Calldrops it would instantly have been my #1 for 2018
Jul 30, 2020this album didn’t live up to what it was supposed to be but it’s still great
amazing creative direction
- Jul 30, 2020
It used to be a ritual for me to smoke to hun43rd
- Jul 30, 2020SHAQUILLE
All my b****es got butt shots!!!
UGHHHHHHHHHHH
Jul 30, 2020People coming around to Testing after a few years. Just as Rocky predicted.
All $miles soon come
- Jul 30, 2020a0n5sjo9js
I like some of the songs, but this album is still a major let down to me. Like how are you gonna keep your fans waiting for three years on new music and keep teasing an album and then drop something that felt like it was made in 2 months? You could tell it was because all of the vocals sound tired out from touring so much. The T.I. feature tease, call drop$ (I’m still not sure what they were thinking with that one) and a bunch of left over tracks just ruin this for me.
Not to mention it’s called “Testing.” As if to indicate that this was an album experimenting with new sounds and ideas. This is pretty standard, even for Rocky’s standards.
(Tone Bone OG Beeper are great tho)
The answer is yams. He directed rockys output to the extent of choosing the beats.
Jul 30, 2020·3 repliesGenuinely curious what people were exactly let down by?
Rocky stepped out of his comfort zone and delivered a really intriguing project filled with production and features you don’t hear on a regular hip hop album.
Touched base with familiar sounds and managed to branch out and experiment with tracks. Distorted Records opens up and instantly you can tell the project will be offering something fresh. Then ASAP Forever is such a solid & certified slapper with a vintage Cudi feature. Buck Shots is going to be featured in the next Blade Runner.
You got FKA Twigs, Frank Ocean & Dev Hynes providing some gorgeous melodies. Some of the most critically acclaimed and respectable artists. No one is rapping on beats like Kids Turned Out Fine, perfect summer track. Changes is the culmination of mixing these sounds together. Can go on but I know some cuck is gonna reply with “bro wrote an essay” like I ain’t on a music discussion forum.
TESTING out now
- Jul 30, 2020
The visuals for Testing were on point. The music, not so much......
- Jul 30, 2020·2 repliesCampari
Genuinely curious what people were exactly let down by?
Rocky stepped out of his comfort zone and delivered a really intriguing project filled with production and features you don’t hear on a regular hip hop album.
Touched base with familiar sounds and managed to branch out and experiment with tracks. Distorted Records opens up and instantly you can tell the project will be offering something fresh. Then ASAP Forever is such a solid & certified slapper with a vintage Cudi feature. Buck Shots is going to be featured in the next Blade Runner.
You got FKA Twigs, Frank Ocean & Dev Hynes providing some gorgeous melodies. Some of the most critically acclaimed and respectable artists. No one is rapping on beats like Kids Turned Out Fine, perfect summer track. Changes is the culmination of mixing these sounds together. Can go on but I know some cuck is gonna reply with “bro wrote an essay” like I ain’t on a music discussion forum.
TESTING out now
They're let down because it's not the same music he made almost 10 years ago...but then say he hasn't shown growth.
Jul 30, 2020Purity is amazing I go back to that song a lot
Jul 30, 2020mavernniif this album had a different name it would be received very differently
Good point
- Jul 30, 2020·1 replySmacked Voodoo
They're let down because it's not the same music he made almost 10 years ago...but then say he hasn't shown growth.
Facts
- Jul 30, 2020Campari
Genuinely curious what people were exactly let down by?
Rocky stepped out of his comfort zone and delivered a really intriguing project filled with production and features you don’t hear on a regular hip hop album.
Touched base with familiar sounds and managed to branch out and experiment with tracks. Distorted Records opens up and instantly you can tell the project will be offering something fresh. Then ASAP Forever is such a solid & certified slapper with a vintage Cudi feature. Buck Shots is going to be featured in the next Blade Runner.
You got FKA Twigs, Frank Ocean & Dev Hynes providing some gorgeous melodies. Some of the most critically acclaimed and respectable artists. No one is rapping on beats like Kids Turned Out Fine, perfect summer track. Changes is the culmination of mixing these sounds together. Can go on but I know some cuck is gonna reply with “bro wrote an essay” like I ain’t on a music discussion forum.
TESTING out now
Excellent post. Agree with everything. Still an interesting project that I revisit almost weekly. Criminally underappreciated
- Jul 30, 2020·2 replies
Fans will justify an artists moves.
Even the bad ones.
How can yall consider an album this divisive good?
It split his fanbase in half. A good album shouldn't lose you fans.
Yet yall refuse to admit that this wasnt it
- Jul 30, 2020
Tony Tone >>>>
Not a bad song in this
- Jul 30, 2020Amphernee Hardaway
Fans will justify an artists moves.
Even the bad ones.
How can yall consider an album this divisive good?
It split his fanbase in half. A good album shouldn't lose you fans.
Yet yall refuse to admit that this wasnt it
Kid A was one of the most divisive albums ever when it dropped.
Jul 30, 2020CampariGenuinely curious what people were exactly let down by?
Rocky stepped out of his comfort zone and delivered a really intriguing project filled with production and features you don’t hear on a regular hip hop album.
Touched base with familiar sounds and managed to branch out and experiment with tracks. Distorted Records opens up and instantly you can tell the project will be offering something fresh. Then ASAP Forever is such a solid & certified slapper with a vintage Cudi feature. Buck Shots is going to be featured in the next Blade Runner.
You got FKA Twigs, Frank Ocean & Dev Hynes providing some gorgeous melodies. Some of the most critically acclaimed and respectable artists. No one is rapping on beats like Kids Turned Out Fine, perfect summer track. Changes is the culmination of mixing these sounds together. Can go on but I know some cuck is gonna reply with “bro wrote an essay” like I ain’t on a music discussion forum.
TESTING out now
imo it’s a really good album for what it is and considering the artistic situation rocky was in but it could’ve been a lot better in execution
he could’ve gone two obvious ways that would’ve made it better
A. include a lot of the snippets for the album that never came out (Lightning, On a Cloud, Wok CDQ, Opposition, GUE$$, Testing the Kid, Heaven) and cut some of the weaker tracks that didn’t really have direction (OG Beeper, CALLDROPS)
B. Go full on in the industrial sound and aesthetic that the album was supposed to head into on that you can hear on tracks like Distorted Records and Buckshots
- Jul 30, 2020·1 reply
It’s one of those albums that will take time to be fully appreciated for sure. Lowkey his best work.
THIB 🦌Jul 30, 2020·1 replyFreddieKaneTop5It’s one of those albums that will take time to be fully appreciated for sure. Lowkey his best work.
you never miss- Jul 30, 2020·1 replyTHIB you never miss
My brother
What you been bumping this week my good man??
Jul 30, 2020Purity one of my fav songs the past decade
- THIB 🦌Jul 30, 2020·1 replyFreddieKaneTop5
My brother
What you been bumping this week my good man??
Been bumping that new Curren$y and Blu & Exile. Hyped for that Black Thought album tonight