Episode #45 | 11.26.19
A$AP Rocky: Love Sex Dreams/LSD and Locked Up Overseas
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In this episode
A$AP Rocky’s upbringing; Harlem, Riker’s, and his own instincts and sense of history informed his world view: A view that included not only a healthy respect for the healing powers of LSD but also to want no part of the political maelstrom surrounding our cartoon president, Donald J. Trump. The bottling and selling of American outrage, for Rocky was a race to the bottom, a distraction. Despite my own distaste for Trump and for all politicians, I respect Rocky’s decision to attempt to ascend above the fray. The irony is that A$AP Rocky’s own behavior led him straight into the political fray; jailed in an international incident and in the end, in need of the unlikeliest of political allies to help him escape.
Sources
Casanova Riker’s story, Rocky:
Riker’s Culture (Gawker)
ASAP Career Profile Village Voice:
2012 Assault & Larceny charge: (TMZ)
2012 Assault & Larceny Charge: (Rolling Stone)
Rocky’s Oxford comments controversy :
Rocky TimeOut interview responding to Oxford controversy
Rocky Breakfast Club interview:
Security cam clip from Sweden:
ASAP Mob videos of incident (1)
ASAP Mob videos of incident (2)
Don King Killed a Man in Cleveland:
Don King Killed a Man in Cleveland (2)
Al Sharpton Was an FBI informant:
Sharpton’s Atlantic City night with Trump brokered by Don King:
Rocky’s family approaches Al Sharpton for help with the Sweden incident:
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Score by Jake Brennan.
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