A$AP Ferg

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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We're joined by rapper A$AP Ferg of the A$AP Mob. Born Darold Durard Brown Ferguson Jr., he grew up in Harlem in an area dubbed "Hungry Ham." His music is hard to define but if you had to you'd need to include hip hop, trap, dubstep, house and soul. He's helped to redefine the term "New York rapper." His latest album is called Floor Seats 2. Ferg joined Bullseye in 2017 to talk about growing up in New York, attending performing arts school, his chance encounter with the late ASAP Yams and collaborating with the great Missy Elliott. Plus, he'll tell us why he loves the legend and the magic behind Madonna. All that and more on the next Bullseye!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:20.6	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Ford.
0:22.4	My next guest is ASAP Ferd.
0:24.6	Ferd grew up in Harlem's Hamilton Heights.
0:27.6	He calls it the Hungry Hand.
0:29.4	He established himself as one of the best MCs in the New York hip-hop collective ASAP
0:33.8	MOP.
0:34.8	In 2013, he released his first solo album, Trap Lord, and included the hit single, Shaba,
0:40.6	which hit number seven on the Billboard Hot 100.
0:51.5	Since then, Ferd has crafted a voice that is entirely unique and separate from ASAP MOP.
0:57.2	He's worked with a bunch of different artists, including Hame, Bone Thugs in Harmony, Missy
1:02.3	Elliott, and others.
1:04.4	Ferd's songs also touch on all kinds of genres, from Trap to House to Dubstep to Soul.
1:11.1	When we talked in 2017, Ferd was out promoting a mixtape called Still Striving.
1:15.9	Here's a single from that, Tango.
1:27.2	He said, Ferd, welcome to Bullseye, thanks for being on the show.
1:41.3	It was something that makes me happy.
1:43.1	Can you tell me a little bit about the neighborhood in Harlem that you grew up in?
1:47.9	143rd, an Amsterdam between Amsterdam and Broadway.
1:52.3	We call it the Hungry Hand.
1:54.8	It was a big crazy at times.
1:56.8	144th was just wild.
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