3. ScHoolboy Q
A$AP Ferg – “Work (RMX)”
Trap Lord
(A$AP Worldwide/RCA)
One of the biggest co-headlines of A$AP Rocky‘s burst onto the scene in 2011, was the accompaniment of his musical collective, A$AP Mob. At the time, Rocky was consistently promoting the unlikely scenario that one by one, members of the Mob would break-out into the real of relevancy in their own rights, making each artist individually as strong as the sum of the parts. While Rocky has already debuted number one on Billboard, his prophecy is slowly coming to life, as next up out of his camp is A$AP Ferg, a high-pitched, slick talking playboy, bent on bringing to the scene as much energy as his cornrow-clad predecessor. For the remix to his lead single, Ferg recruited one rather hungry ScHoolboy Q, who is as focused on building the buzz for his debut album, Oxymoron, as Ferg is for Trap Lord, and with a few flicks of the pen, rap’s favorite Hoover Crip gave 2013 one of its proudest, vicious moments on the mic.
