A$AP Ferg - Shabba Featuring A$AP Rocky

Video released July 15th 2013

Okay, so to begin with I want to apologise for being a little quiet on the old blogging front in the last couple of days. While I try to update daily as it's the only way a tiny blog like this can gain a readership, the problem has been I've not really had anything to write about. Anyway today I've hit the internet hard to find a couple of tracks to write about to make up for the days missed, A$AP Ferg with Shabba being my first of today.

I've missed the whole A$AP Mob thing a little, my attention to the hip hop world is restricted to Odd Future and less known spoken word artists. The guns, bitches and bling just seems to be a little hollow and empty to me, sure it's polished and sparkly on the outside but do they really have a message in what they're singing? Do they inspire me to see the world differently? The simple answer to this is no, it's something that's always gone way over my head and I've never really given it a second thought.

Back to the actual track in question, A$AP Ferg is the latest member of Harlem hip hop collective A$AP Mob to be given his chance to have the spotlight, following in A$AP Rocky's footsteps was never going to be an easy task with his billboard 100 topping album Long. Live. A$AP realeased January this year.

Shabba is catchy, the hook is superb and I expect a crowd pleaser at gigs. Unfortunately that's one of the only plus points of this track I can see, the rest is merely Ferg stating how ninety per cent of the American female population would like to perform oral sex on him and the size of his penis, although these are themes expected in most US hip hop tracks I think I was expecting something more. Ferg has drafted in Rocky as a feature on this track and to say it's underwhelming would be an understatement. Remember when Big Sean had Kendrick Lamar as a feature on "Control"? Imagine the opposite of that. When Big Sean and Kendrick dropped that track the world turned and looked, he'd totally upstaged the main artist on the track and propelled himself even further forward with his career, Rocky doesn't do that here, it's forgettable and disposable to the track.

While it's not terrible it's not brilliant, it'd be ideal for a party or as part of a playlist but as a standalone it's flimsy and poorly constructed, the hook's good, there's just not a lot else.