Thu 28 Jun 2012
ASAP Rocky Speaks Out on Leaked Unfinished Lana Del Rey Collaboration
Posted by Mr.North under quotes[11] Comments
Following their love affair playing The Kennedys in the video for “National Anthem,” a record featuring A$AP Rocky and Lana Del Rey titled “Ridin” leaked onto the internet. The collaboration, set to appear on Rocky’s LongLiveA$AP debut album, was an unfinished reference song that wasn’t scheduled to be released until later this summer. Frustrated, Pretty Flacko hit Twitter to voice his thoughts on the reference song hitting online.
“THAT RIDIN SONG WITH ME N LANA IZ NOT OFFICAL, ITS NOT MY REAL LYRICS , THAT WAZ A REFERENCE , THE KICK DRUMS CAN SUCK MY DICK!!!! MY BARZ ARE WACK AF ON THAT SONG BRUH, THAT WAZ A FREESTYLE REFERENCE AND THEY KNOW DAT, FUCK THE KICK DRUMS!!! I CARE ABOUT MY CRAFT TOO MUCH TO GIVE THE PPL GARBAGE LIKE THAT, SMH.”
Meanwhile, The Kickdrums who produced the song also took to Twitter and reacted. Read their thoughts below….
“We didn’t leak that “Ridin’” track. I was as surprised to see it on the web as everyone else. Whole thing is weird to me. Song just pops up outta nowhere & theres an official lookin cover and shit. call my manager like “what is this?”..”
Originally, “Ridin” was to release on The Kickdrums’ Follow The Leaders mixtape in April. Though all parties agreed that was fine, labels stepped in and stopped the song from releasing to be saved for A$AP Rocky’s debut.
via Complex
Previously: Lana Del Rey – “National Anthem” (Starring ASAP Rocky) (Video)
June 28th, 2012 at 6:47 pm
What rule number was “Industry people are shady” again?
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Rado Krum Reply:
June 28th, 2012 at 10:50 pm
4080
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Denise Reply:
June 29th, 2012 at 10:54 am
#4080… record company people are shadyyyyyyyy……
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June 28th, 2012 at 8:46 pm
so they sabotaged Asap Rocky just because he decided he wanted HIS song to be on his debut album instead of being released for Free. Smdh
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Jasperfect Reply:
June 29th, 2012 at 9:13 am
I’m assuming they are producers and if they are then the song is as much theirs as it is his. And when they got together to do the song it was created for a free mixtape, the label felt it was too good to be free or something I guess.
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June 29th, 2012 at 9:15 am
So he spit some garbage bars and he’s mad it got released? maybe he shouldn’t have recorded garbage raps. I thought reference tracks where for you wrote for someone else? why would you do a refernce track for yourself? can someone explain that to me.
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Mike S. Reply:
June 29th, 2012 at 12:08 pm
Sometimes an artist will experiment/toy with different flows, melodies, or lyrics on a beat before actually recording what will be the final version of the song. It’s a creative process. I remember Nas saying in an interview that he finds it hard to write, so he’ll just go in the booth and freestyle until he gets stuck then go back and pick up where he left off. At the end he’ll rerecord whatever he felt was good enough to keep.
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Jasperfect Reply:
June 29th, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Thanks
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Tiffany Reply:
June 29th, 2012 at 12:16 pm
You do a reference track for yourself to record the melodies and flow and things like that. This is so you don’t forget how you want to say things once you do have the real lyrics. Rapping is very much flow and style as it is lyrics.
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Jasperfect Reply:
June 29th, 2012 at 2:25 pm
You learn something new everyday, Thanks
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September 7th, 2012 at 9:29 am
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