September 12th 2024
I want to take this moment to appreciate A$AP Rocky. I feel like I haven't had a positive communal music moment in a long time and A$AP Rocky is the person doing that the most for me in this moment. It's nothing like the moments being made in pop music, and it stands apart from any musical moment in my physical domain. I've just been listening to "HIGHJACK" a lot recently, and I noticed like 4 cool people posted that song on their Instagram story. More often nowadays, some of my favorite artists are releasing songs, albums, and I don't even know about it until I just happen to be on their streaming profile and see it. Of course the first thing I notice is that these artists typically did not post about these releases enough, or creatively enough. We can assume I would know about every release I want to know about if every artist releasing posted about these releases as much as they could with creative care because I follow these artists on social media and I am often looking at social media. But I don't follow A$AP Rocky on Instagram.
I used to follow him a long time ago, in fact I know I used to follow him 9 years ago. I unfollowed him because, as some people may remember, every post A$AP Rocky used to put on Instagram was apart of a larger image that you could only see when looking at his whole profile page. A lot of people had already posted like this and still do it, but no one was doing it like A$AP. I'll never forget scrolling to find the beginning and being satisfied with the complete vision. I can remember the time because I know this was sometime around the release of A.L.L.A.
It makes sense that there's people I find cool listening to A$AP Rocky's new song, it validates the cool feeling I get when I listen to the song.
I know everyone didn't love TESTING but there's a lot of songs on there I still listen to. Plus I really respect the whole experimental direction he went with it, the art was a complete package. Which is something I feel like A$AP Rocky hadn't done before, since the 3 projects before TESTING all incorporated the A$AP brand. You don't have to deliver a complete artistic package in music but I appreciate it when it's executed well. "Distorted Records", "Fukk Sleep", and "changes", all deliver.
I know A$AP Rocky has taken way too long with this new album but that's why these singles are getting me hype. He said it was supposed to happen in August, last August and this August, but sample clearances prevented it. I still respect the guy because we know he's taking care of a lot of other things in his life. The fact that I feel like I don't need to elaborate on what else he's been taking care of because I assume most people reading this already know, is a testament to A$AP's admirable skill of existing in our world. Zero albums in 6 years but he still provides the cool. Thank you A$AP Rocky.
This is the sacred timeline. Welcome. I want to centralize everything I post on the internet here. We all need to be using more, different websites, but we also need to centralize things for simplicity sake.
Currently I am paying for this domain annually and Google allows me to build a site but since the time I started renting the domain, Google sold it to Squarespace. Google also said something like "Google sites doesn't exist anymore" but that's still the same software I'm using to write right now. So, I don't know how long it will remain on this exact domain but, I will keep it consistent no matter what by keeping my own records with files on my computer.
The reason I am doing this is so that I can have the most control over my digital output. I want to release (more) music, videos, books, and I just want to post my thoughts online. I know people have used the internet like this before, I want more people to do it more.
The photo above really is a perfect start to what's happening here, this sentence is technically the beginning though. Scrolling up is moving forwards, scrolling down is backwards.