A$AP Mob

So, August was busy for A$AP Mob. To recap, the group released their second collaborative album Cozy Tapes Vol. 2, fresh off the heels of two solo albums from A$AP Ferg and A$AP Twelvyy. Despite the members’ natural energy and chemistry together, sheer quantity is bound to dilute quality at some point, and halfway through Cozy Tapes I was exhausted. You see, the New York rap crew's album, although a trusted formula, is not really a revolutionary concept. But what could be a better pick me up than the crooning, auto-tuned Playboi Carti verse that greeted me on “Walk on Water”? It sounds like SoundCloud, the south, twenty-seventeen, and like the kind of rap that old-heads hate, yet it brings more life to that A$AP-type beat than Cam’ron could bring to "Rubber Band Man." It’s a bittersweet reckoning, or maybe just a sign of the times.