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With Kendrick Lamar's hotly anticipated A few months ago, A$AP ROCKY's career You can't listen to any station that plays hip-
debut, good kid, m.A.A.d seemed mired in purgatory. The 24-year- hop for an hour and not hear a Rick Ross
city (TDE/Aftermath/Interscope) just old Harlem rapper had a spectacular 2011, song. He's become one of the very few
weeks away [it dropped on Oct. 22] the snagging a still-crazy $3 million deal with people who pretty much anyone would list
rapper is in the middle of a relentless RCA based on early buzz and then silencing if you said, "Name some famous rappers"
run that began in earnest with the first
of a 30-date self-titled tour, sponsored skeptics with his breakout LiveLoveA$AP (and they didn't say, like, MC Hammer). And
by BET Music Matters and TDE, in early mixtape. But throughout 2012, one of fewer still who can make millions of
September. Last night, he was in Baton LongLiveA$AP repeatedly failed to dollars a year rapping. Elliott Wilson, the
Rouge, La., picking up a sold-out spot materialize. It was slated for July 4th, then editor of Rap Radar, classifies Ross this way:
date at Varsity Theatre that was tacked September 11th, October 31, and Right now he's still technically a street
onto the New Orleans stop of the Music
Matters tour the previous night. Before eventually, sometime in December. When rapper, though just barely. "Street" means
New Orleans, Lamar was in Atlanta the final pushback happened, into the his bread-and-butter demographic is black
taping a rack of segments for the BET dead zone just after the new year, it began people, and mostly males. But he is at the
Hip-Hop Awards, including a to feel like RCA was attempting to quietly very pinnacle of street. He has started to
performance of "Swimming Pools" and jettison their investment from the exhibit the signs of mainstream iconic
"The Recipe" (the Dr. Dre-assisted single
that will appear on the deluxe edition of corporate hull. status—appealing to the full spectrum of
good kid, m.A.A.d city), presenting the I But LongLiveA$AP delivers on and even teenage boys, culturally curious white
Am Hip-Hop Award to legendary MC exceeds the promise of LiveLoveA$AP. Like people, ironic college kids. Basically anyone
Rakim; appearing in the West Coast that mixtape, the album is a triumph of who listens to rap on the radio sometimes.
cipher alongside the likes of E-40, DJ craft and curation, preserving Rocky's "There's Jay-Z, Kanye, and Wayne—and
Quik, Kurupt and Snoop Lion; and immaculate taste while smartly upgrading Eminem is the king of his own domain,"
collecting an award for lyricist of the
year. Tomorrow, he'll push back his his sound. A third of the record remains Wilson says. "And then there's Rick Ross,
flight home in order to crash in a close in style to LiveLoveA$AP while most right on that cusp." Three of his last four
magazine photo shoot, a radio station of the collaborations follow in the steps of albums have debuted at no. 1 on the hip-
appearance and a stop by BET's "106 & last spring's "Goldie“, which stamped hop charts (the other one at no. 2). If his
Park." On Saturday, he'll drive himself to producer Hit-Boy's signature Mini-Boss new record, God Forgives, I Don't, doesn't
Fresno, Calif., where he'll perform in the
Big Fresno Fair. Two weeks ago, he had Musik with a screwed-up hook and follow suit, it will shock everyone in the
been scheduled to have the week off. gumball-spitting flow that marked it as music industry who knows anything.
unmistakably Rocky's. Plenty of rap-
"I don't look at no dates," Lamar says, industry heavies appear on LongLiveA$AP, I will include similar articles in my
explaining how he manages to stay
afloat. "I just go to the crowd and do
and they mix well with Rocky's younger magazine. Focussing on upcoming
shows. I don't look at days of the week comrades. More importantly, the French-
braid gold-teeth kid named after Rakim
artists, new single and album
or none of that -- that's how I get
another 12 months [out of myself]. If I never cedes the centre. For someone releases and successful hiphop
sit down and think about it now, I'll go often criticized artists.
crazy."

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Colour scheme
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be using. High quality images that
reflect r&b/hiphop music, artists,
lifestyle and fashion.

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Masthead
Loud and Clear
Skyfall done
I have decided to use Sky fall Done as I think it is edgy and modern which will reflect my magazine well
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Frankin Gothic Book
SKETCHLINE Times new Roman
Arial narrow – I will use this font as it is
sans serif which compliments my
masthead choice well. It is also easy to
read.

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