Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your acid trails of music news and

sense derangement.

Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your acid trails of music news and sense

de-arrangement. I'm your host Ben Ratliff. Dream in She was She was.

But they can stay on for way too long.

So I really want to let it go.

I've been in it.

We're hearing L.S.D.

by A sap Rocky from his second a fatty a big serious album.

Yeah at long last a sa-sap hey John Karamonica yes it seems to me that every time the subject of A-Sap Rocky comes up, there you are.

Yeah, yeah. Is that a...

Just kind of like behind home plate with the catcher's mick.

Is that a shot? No, but I do want to stress that you feel a certain way about A-Sap rocky.

I think that you have pinpointed him in the past as an almost complete example of what

new commercial hip-hop could portend.

Yes, yeah I think that that's right. And do you think that he hip-hop could portend? Yes.

Yeah, I think that that's right.

And do you think that he gets it right on this new record?

Which is a doors of perception kind of record.

It's a very druggie album. It is a very druggie album. Although it's important to remember

and this is something I point out on my piece, you know this is this is the

oo's from what's Rocky has emerged. If you look at the early Rocky songs, you look at

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