How does A$AP Rocky keep those grills so sparkly?
- Text by HUCK HQ
Want to know how the hell A$AP Rocky keeps those gnashers so damn clean? Or how last Saturday’s Miss Fat Booty performance with Mos Def went down? What about how the loss of close friend and collaborator A$AP Yams shaped his music making?
Us too.
Last week, hip hop’s Harlem renaissance man A$AP Rocky sat down for a heart-to-heart with i-D’s music editor Hattie Collins to deliver his Red Bull Music Academy lecture.
The event was live streamed here on Huck and readers could tweet #AskRocky for a chance to have their burning questions answered at the end of the lecture. If you missed the live stream, you can catch the best bits in this highlight video.
Having spent the better part of two years straddling the Atlantic between NYC and LDN while recording his sophomore album, this is just the beginning of Rocky’s dialogue with RBMA. He’ll be continuing the conversation by hosting a second public lecture onMay 7 in Harlem, with “a surprise or two along the way.”
The 2015 edition of Red Bull Music Academy kicks of in early Autumn, but until then the RBMA squad will be criss-crossing the globe, bringing their lectures, ‘experiential audio events’, and parties with them.
Find what’s happening near you, check out Red Bull Music Academy.
You might like
Tony Njoku: ‘I wanted to see Black artists living my dream’
What Made Me — In this series, we ask artists and rebels about the forces and experiences that shaped who they are. Today, it’s avant-garde electronic and classical music hybridist Tony Njoku.
Written by: Tony Njoku
James Massiah: “As much as the social contract is lost, there’s a freedom with that”
Bounty Law — With the release of his latest album, we sat down with the rapper-poet to chat about his new sonic Western, the boom in alternative poetry events, and whether the social contract is broken.
Written by: Isaac Muk
Ghais Guevara: “Rap is a pinnacle of our culture”
What Made Me — In our new series, we ask artists and rebels about the forces and experiences that have shaped who they are. First up, Philadelphian rap experimentalist Ghais Guevara.
Written by: Ghais Guevara
Three decades behind the scenes of the music industry
Eddie Otchere’s ‘Spirit Behind the Lens’ is a story of music and culture that crosses and transcends borders.
Written by: Isaac Muk
The woman who defined 80s Hip Hop photography
A new exhibition brings together Janette Beckman’s visionary and boundary pushing images of an era of cultural change and moral panic.
Written by: Miss Rosen
The 90s skate video that changed the face of counterculture
Eli Gesner and RB Umali look back on the cross-pollination of East Coast skateboarding, hip-hop, and graffiti for Zoo York’s seminal Mixtape.
Written by: Mackenzie Eisenhour
