“Pharsyde” feels like a leftover beat from Demon Days and doesn’t offer Rocky a chance to do anything exciting.
Another executive producer here, Danger Mouse, can be heard in the boilerplate beats, which mesh well with Rocky’s aesthetic but never push the envelope or make any revelatory alterations to the formula. Though Yams gets an executive producer credit, it’s difficult to quantify how much of his vision for the album made it to the final cut. One of the creative forces behind Rocky’s music, ASAP Yams, passed away in January while A.L.L.A was still in the works. At. would be my new favorite album if I had taken LSD for the first time last week, but seeing as that isn’t the case, it’s pretty easy to identify the album’s flaws, of which there are a fair number, while still basking in the moments of greatness that Rocky managed to create out of a bad situation, of which there are also plenty.
Now, he’s added another facet to his repertoire: dude who really likes taking and talking about taking acid. He’s been the Harlem-based Tumblr rap prodigy, the luxury fashion name-dropper, the de facto face of ASAP Mob, and a guy who loves rapping about all things purple.
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