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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