By the way, I just performed at her daughter’s sweet sixteen.
That Lauryn Hill moment was just a piece of the joy that I was in when I was performing that day. Just to know that he could pull all of those people is just crazy. Skrillex had a couple of the band members from Grateful Dead on stage. That whole experience was just cool, man. For you, was that one of those “I’ve made it” moments?Ī$AP Ferg: Just meeting her and being in the same rehearsal room with her and Bob Marley‘s son and Skrillex and Janelle Monae was crazy. Life + Times: On the song, “Bonnoroo”, you describe a moment you had with Lauryn Hill. His father, who was a well-known graphic designer in Harlem, designed the Bad Boy Records logo for Diddy and the Uptown Records logo for Andre Harrell, and as Ferg puts it, “did a bunch of shit for people in the industry.” Life + Times recently met with A$AP Ferg at the Polo Grounds’ offices and we discussed his latest mixtape, his walk-off with Cara Delevingne and his upcoming tour with YG. “Now that I’m on I feel like I can take that name to the next level,” says the rapper born Darold Ferguson, Jr. He decided on Ferg Forever as a way of paying homage to his father, his father’s legacy and his family’s name, which is Ferguson. He was especially careful in choosing a title for the mixtape. There are, of course, still joints to turn up to on the project, but there are also a set of more reflective, honest, revealing, emotionally-fueled and politically charged records like “Uncle”, “Bonnoroo”, “Commitment Issues”, “Thug Cry” and “Talk It.” “I now understand the power of words, so I now try to use them carefully,” he admits. “So what I’m putting out there is a little different from when I first started making music.” That growth and maturity is exhibited here and there throughout Ferg Forever, his latest mixtape. I kind of know what I want out of life,” says A$AP Ferg. Although A$AP Ferg is synonymous with the turn up – due in part to the success of singles like “Work” and “Shabba” – he feels his responsibility as an artist is bigger than just getting parties popping and as he gets older he wants his music to reflect that.
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