I review, analyze, and drop some info about L$D by A$AP Rocky.  Mellow out and enjoy the trip.


I am rather soft spoken for the first 13 minutes because this was recorded at 1am and my landlords were asleep. Let me know if you get any ASMR tingles.


 


Show notes:


-Is this a rap song?


-When I first heard L$D


-Videos complimenting their songs


-I’m part of the MTV generation


-The L$D video


-An ode to LSD and love


-The At Long Last album


-A$AP Rocky’s influences


-A$AP Rocky’s other work


-Even if you don’t like rap . . .


-My experiment


-“It helps me cope with life”


-Studies on LSD


-M.A.P.S


-Results from a small study


-Back to the video


-The visuals, romance and setting of the video


-Tokyo and Times Square


-Time Square in the 80s


-Gaspar Noe’s Enter the Void


-“Excuse Me” in the L$D video


-If you’ve never heard this song before


-For Dark Side of the Moon and classic rock fans


-Listening to new music


-Youthful naivety


-Getting out of your music comfort zone


-The guitar riff


-L$D live


-My wish for the live version


-The beginning of L$D


-The lyrics with my voice at a normal volume


-The “her”


-Straightforward lyrics


-“This hippy life”


-Harlem, Manhattan, the city


-Queens and Brooklyn are NOT New York City


-(Acid)


-Pretty lights


-If I ever drop acid . . .


-Love, Sex, Dream


-“Another quarter to the face system”


-Leaps of faith


-Taking the place of love?


-The drum sample (Ode to Billie Joe)


-Other rap songs with the drum sample


-I don’t know!


-“Yeaaaahhhh”


-“Tongue at a loss for words”


-Sharing the world


-“I really want to give people drugs through music”


-More of a traditional rap song


-Who is Lord?


-Don’t drink and drive (or text and drive)


-What about the weather?


-What light?


-Can you feel it?


-The end of the lyrics


-The origin of the guitar riff


-Back to A$AP Rocky’s influences


-Doing something different


-In the studio with Lenny Kravitz (Kravitz later said that he was just checking out A$AP’s new tracks)


-What makes A$AP Rocky exciting


-How I was drawn to A$AP Rocky


-Plugs!


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