Not hand-me-down toys and technology-new stuff. So I got with Kevin and Under Armour so we could open up real rec centers with fly shit in them. Pardon my French, but you don't see no money. And I know that when people be donating and shit, you ain't get no fly shit at Christmases and all that. When you donate or you do charities, it's not about showing people “Look, I'm doing this.” I was in a shelter myself. But what I liked about Kevin Plank, the CEO of Under Armour, was that he had a vision. People would assume, with me going into a business deal with a sports brand, that it would be all about designing or curating a line-making things more lit. We run down on the cab, take him out the cab, and start beating him up while we're screaming “A$AP!” So that's how everybody knew us back then. He throw ice at all of us and hops in a cab. Your man, he was a manager of the club, so he come out, bugging out with his security guards. Rocky: So then, we all leave out the club. Nigga said, “Get off my friend!” Ferg was mad concerned. Next thing you know, I just see feet running my way. This motherfucker must've been on mollies and liquor. I'm biting this motherfucker's thumb and pinkie and shit, going crazy, snuffing him. Now we on the motherfucking dance floor, fighting like females, pulling each other's hair. Rocky: That shit was echoing through the man's body! When the dude got up, the first person he spot was me with the pink shirt on, so he just start charging, like a mad raging bull, and he grabbed my head. Rocky: Don't forget about the Ferg punches! Ferg said, “Don't touch my friend!” Boom, boom, boom! So Jay West put him in a headlock, I snuffed him, he fell, everybody kicked him, we all dispersed, we ran.Ī$AP Nast: Let's talk about the Ferg punches. We was like, “Yo, chill,” but he kept going crazy. I'ma come clean, we was in the club, and A$AP Bari was trying to talk to some dude's girlfriend. A lot of A$AP members were there that day. Ferg, you had on the black Acne pants, with the blue jean jacket, and Nast, you had the blue jean jacket with the seam, with the black Acne pants, and the black Timbs, with the Super glasses on, with the 'fro, 'cause you was on your Jay-Z shit, trying to wolf up. I had on this Marc Jacobs shirt, these D&G pants-'cause I was wearing D&G back then-and Marc Jacobs sneakers. Rocky: All right, one time in Santos, it was like 2008. It's not a stretch to say Rocky is partially responsible for making European high fashion as much a part of hip-hop and pop culture as streetwear. That was back in 2011, long before he cemented Simons's unlikely hip-hop-icon status with the song “Raf” this July. In his breakout video, for “Peso,” he repped hard-edged, gothic-leaning streetwear like Black Scale, as well as more established avant-garde fashion like Rick Owens and Y3, while rapping, Raf Simons, Rick Owens usually what I'm dressed in. From the beginning, though, Rocky also established himself as a style innovator and made fashion an inextricable part of his music. & Rakim, it was only natural that a kid who seems to crank up the color saturation whenever he walks into a room would channel his God-given wattage into rap music. And given that Rocky's mom named him and his elder sister, Erika B. It is el puro, perhaps the purest of any star in pop culture-Hollywood, music, fashion, whatever. The chaos Rakim Mayers attracts is a result of his charisma, which is raw and uncut. But some of them he didn't mind so much: GQ Style had collected them from a few of Rocky's notable friends and admirers, with a promise of bringing back answers. Every so often, he'd tease me for asking so many questions. He took his spot in the middle of a leather couch, surrounded by his old friends from Harlem-Ferg, Nast, Ant, and Twelvyy-and started methodically breaking down a small mound of weed as he spoke in a post-concert rasp. “Let's embrace the chaos,” Rocky suggested. “We need to capture this chaos right here,” he said, gesturing around his dressing room, still packed with Mob members, girls, security guards, other unidentified loiterers, and even (according to A$AP Ferg, anyway) a loose mouse.
Our interview with A$AP Rocky was supposed to take place backstage after an A$AP Mob concert in Philly, in a quiet, empty room, but in the moment, Rocky had a better idea.
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