A$AP Rocky Explains Dissing Hood By Air & Been Trill
Recently A$AP Rocky‘s track “Multiply” released on the track Rocky can be heard firing very directs shots at brands Hood By Air & Been Trill. This a complete 180 for the rapper who once praised both labels for their designs. Rocky recently explained his disses in a interview with New York‘s The Cut, proclaiming “It is what it is. HBA sh*t is weak.” Check the snippet of the conversation after the jump where Rocky speaks on his issues with both brands.
This conversation about Hood by Air: Do you think they are weak? Did we misunderstand?No, there is no misunderstanding.
Why did you say that?Because I can. I birthed it, so I can kill it.
[Regarding] the Hood by Air line on your album, was there anything in particular that happened? That made you feel like the stuff was weak?You know, fashion, it changes. Your perception of fashion sometimes changes; one day is red, the next day is blue. My style changes, it varies.
So you weren’t as into it anymore.
It is what it is. HBA shit is weak.
Will you work with those guys again?I don’t know.
How about Been Trill? [On "Multiply," Rocky also says, "I ain't really fucking with that Been Trill."]That shit is wack, too.
Anything in particular?I’m going to put it to you like this: I can say that I’ve been scrutinized for my fashion since I was about 15 years old. A lot of people got it easy. I feel like I had to go through the whole Civil Rights Movement just to be comfortable, to make other people comfortable, to be able to wear what they want to wear, and a lot of dudes are just claiming to have it without having to have that sacrifice or suffering through all that kind of shit. We’ve been through that kind of shit. That’s all I can really say about it. It is really miniscule. It’s no real beef.
What do you mean, you’ve been through everything?No, meaning the way that I look now, this wasn’t acceptable about 12 years ago in the hood. [He’s wearing a closely tailored black suit.] Because we’ve always been dressing like this and it wasn’t acceptable and we made it acceptable.
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