Hey, this goes Jake Brennan here. Listen to new episodes of Discrets Land from season

11 every Tuesday and catch the after party episodes every Thursday. This is where we

go deeper into the artist's stories. I'll share what I'm reading, listening to, and

what I'm watching, and I'll respond to your messages and questions, and of course,

I'll be reading the phone book. You've probably realized that we're releasing a lot of

previously exclusive episodes this month. We've got episodes on Studio 54, Prince, the

Missfits, Selena, way more that you've probably never heard before. You can listen to all

those episodes in a bunch more Discrets Land right now, wherever you get your podcasts.

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where everywhere thank you for listening. Let's get into it.

Discrets Land is a production of Double Elvis.

The stories about hip-hop star Asap Rocky are insane. He utilized LSD as a means of therapy.

He was jailed at an early age for dealing drugs, arrested for assaulting photographers,

and loudly proclaimed the psychedelic virtues of the purple drink. Born in Harlem and raised

in its drug and crime-sterend streets on the reverberations of rap's golden era, Asap

Rocky seems the picture-perfect hip-hop star. One part, take no shit tough guy. The other

part, trippy pretty boy poet. But Asap Rocky never fit the mold. He broke it. His music

has as much in common with his namesake, the groundbreaking MC Ra Kim, as it does the psychedelic

songsmiths of the 60s, Lennon, Barrett, and Zimmerman among them. And his renegade Contrary

in Nature is more like Mr. Zimmerman's aka Bob Dylan, that it is the dusted soundcloud

rappers Asap Rocky shares a generation with. Asap has even collaborated with Bob Dylan's

grandson Pablo and is forever in awe of and in debt to another Pablo, Yeez-as-himself,

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