A$AP Rocky Honors Late Rappers With ‘Same Problems?’: Listen – Billboard

Fresh off celebrating 10th anniversary of debut studio album It’s long. live. asap, A$AP Rocky pays tribute to recently deceased members of the hip-hop community while giving fans a new taste of music with the release of new song “Same Problems?”

The song was debuted by Rocky as part of his song in December. Amazon Music Live Thursday Night Football Performance — Watching rappers become introspective about the role they may have played in perpetuating violence in rap music.

“How many problems are solved? / Am I a product of what I see? / How many problems are solved? / Am I proud of what I sing?” he muses in the chorus. To do.

The song will also be released on A$AP Yams’ 8th anniversary. His 26-year-old founding member of the A$AP Mob died in January 2015 of acute mixed-drug intoxication.

Speaking to Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe about the track, A$AP revealed that he wrote the song because he was “reflecting.”

“I think I was feeling the plight. I think I was feeling the guilt too, because every time we lose someone in our community, all of us, especially me, have a habit of saying things like ‘I messed up.’ that’s wrong. Why is this happening?” he said. “You ask a lot of questions, but mostly… I was contributing lyrics and other stuff like that to the song, so I take the time to really understand that I’m part of the problem.” It never happened.”

He continued: I just wanted to express myself and tell how I felt without preaching. we all had the same problem. Ironically, my biggest hit ever was…my first hit was “F-in’ Problems.” Now, exactly ten years later, we have a song called “S’ame Problems.” It’s just like a problem, a problem, you know what I mean?

Regarding his next, as-yet-untitled album, the 34-year-old assured Lowe that it was indeed in the works. ‘ he said. “The new thing is that I am vulnerable. It’s my point of view.”

Listen to “same problem” in the video above.