L$D by A$AP Rocky

I review, analyze, and drop some info about L$D by A$AP Rocky.  Mellow out and enjoy the trip.

I am rather soft spoken for the first 13 minutes because this was recorded at 1am and my landlords were asleep. Let me know if you get any ASMR tingles.

 

Show notes:

-Is this a rap song?

-When I first heard L$D

-Videos complimenting their songs

-I’m part of the MTV generation

-The L$D video

-An ode to LSD and love

-The At Long Last album

-A$AP Rocky’s influences

-A$AP Rocky’s other work

-Even if you don’t like rap . . .

-My experiment

-“It helps me cope with life”

-Studies on LSD

-M.A.P.S

-Results from a small study

-Back to the video

-The visuals, romance and setting of the video

-Tokyo and Times Square

-Time Square in the 80s

-Gaspar Noe’s Enter the Void

-“Excuse Me” in the L$D video

-If you’ve never heard this song before

-For Dark Side of the Moon and classic rock fans

-Listening to new music

-Youthful naivety

-Getting out of your music comfort zone

-The guitar riff

-L$D live

-My wish for the live version

-The beginning of L$D

-The lyrics with my voice at a normal volume

-The “her”

-Straightforward lyrics

-“This hippy life”

-Harlem, Manhattan, the city

-Queens and Brooklyn are NOT New York City

-(Acid)

-Pretty lights

-If I ever drop acid . . .

-Love, Sex, Dream

-“Another quarter to the face system”

-Leaps of faith

-Taking the place of love?

-The drum sample (Ode to Billie Joe)

-Other rap songs with the drum sample

-I don’t know!

-“Yeaaaahhhh”

-“Tongue at a loss for words”

-Sharing the world

-“I really want to give people drugs through music”

-More of a traditional rap song

-Who is Lord?

-Don’t drink and drive (or text and drive)

-What about the weather?

-What light?

-Can you feel it?

-The end of the lyrics

-The origin of the guitar riff

-Back to A$AP Rocky’s influences

-Doing something different

-In the studio with Lenny Kravitz (Kravitz later said that he was just checking out A$AP’s new tracks)

-What makes A$AP Rocky exciting

-How I was drawn to A$AP Rocky

-Plugs!

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