Trap Lord

新世代MC筆頭、エイサップ・ロッキー率いるクルー、〈A$AP Mob〉が送り込む最強にエキセントリックなラッパー、エイサップ・ファーグが待望のデビュー!焦燥感を煽るトラップ・ビーツとゲスト勢がヤバい"Work"や、レゲエ重鎮シャバ・ランクスに捧げたフックがクセになる"Shabba"など、ドープでズル剥けな雰囲気はクルー髄一!?
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新世代MC筆頭A$AP Rockyが率いるクルー、A$AP Mobに所属する最強にエキセントリックなラッパー、A$AP Ferg(エイサップ・ファーグ)のデビュー・アルバム。
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With the deep, dark, and delicious Trap Lord, A$AP Ferg enters the A$AP Mob's immersive murder music hall of fame, having crafted an album as out there and attractive as A$AP Rocky's official debut Long.Live.A$AP. Big difference here is that while Rocky fits in perfectly with kinetic and weird folks like Danny Brown, Ferg comes off as a tough, cold Bun B or even Notorious B.I.G.-type character, making music that should only be listened to once night falls and cooking up stern, infectious thug anthems like the posse cut "Work." With Jim Jonsin on production and Waka Flocka Flame firing like a machine gun dropped on the floor, Ferg's the certain, mighty anchor of highlight "Murda Something." When it comes to that Biggie sense of nostalgia, the great "Shabba" honors the Dons of yesterday with some clues as to whose posters hung on the young Ferg's wall ("Eight gold rings, like I'm Shabba, Shabba Ranks/Four gold chains like I'm Shabba, Shabba Ranks"). The mighty begins to bleed into the mystical once Bone Thugs-N-Harmony join for the choice track "Lord," and yes, that's the brilliant hire of the old-school team Onyx for "Fuck Out My Face" which is perfectly staffed with the additions of B Real and Aston Matthews. These easily connectable numbers are surrounded by more challenging tracks as "4:02" suggests a porno soundtrack that's been screwed and chopped by the Dark Lord himself, while "Make a Scene" is a triumphant stab at the Southern funk-rap of Outkast that drops a tab on its tongue about midpoint before bleeding away like an over shaken Polaroid picture. Juggling Masonic symbols, Golden Age hip-hop cassettes, and loaded glocks with ease, the rapper is an excellent tour guide through this warped landscape of thrills and chills, and even if Rocky remains the A$AP Mob's most obvious and outgoing choice, there's an argument to be made that the more interesting one is Ferg, a Trap Lord if there ever was one. ~ David Jeffries

エイサップ・ロッキーの大ブレイクを受け、エイサップ・モブから続いてソロ・デビューを果たしたのはロッキーの作品でもフックアップされていたファーグ。モブ感の強い先行曲"Work"(本作にはロッキーら参加のリミックスを収録)がロング・ヒットするなかで登場した本作は、トレンドを丸飲みするような先鋭性の際立っていたロッキーのアルバムと比べ、主役の嗜好を反映したダークかつゴシックなムード。その象徴とも言えるボーン・サグズン・ハーモニーを迎えた"Lord"を筆頭にフロウも含めて彼らからの影響を随所で感じさせ、前述"Work"やシャバ・ランクスへの敬意を込めた"Shabba"、ワカ・フロッカ・フレイムとの"Murda Something"など、ライヴ映えしそうな曲が並んでいるのも実にモブい。
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