![]() ![]() He attended an arts high school (NYC’s High School of Art & Design), and is an unabashed student of visual art and fashion. This is Still Striving (and Ferg’s) biggest strength, and most glaring weakness: His style is his substance. More than anything else, the crowded real estate takes some of the pressure off of him as a writer he rarely contributes more than a single verse and a hook. Of the 14 tracks on Still Striving, only three are without guest verses, and with few exceptions (Cam’ron, Busta Rhymes), most of the guests are lyrical lightweights that avoid showing him up. Like Ferg Forever, his latest tape feels light and loose, a collection of mostly throw-away verses and guest features that serve more to flex Ferg’s network than anything else. For Ferg, it appears to be an indictment of the record’s quality, or perhaps how much time he spent on it. The Mattress Remix is great, with a hard hitting trap beat and Rocky and Ferg interchanging, and the East Coast Remix is another good song, with great verses from Rocky, Ferg, and Busta Rhymes, however French Montana ruins the song for me.The line between “mixtape” and a proper “album” has long been inexorably blurred, with the distinction lying mostly in how the artist chooses to refer to it. Other Highlights of the project for me are Olympian featuring Dave East, Nasty (Who Dat) featuring Migos, which has a slightly annoying autotuned hook but this is redeemed by Migos' verses. This is then followed by Rubber Band Man, which features a catchy hook and great beat, and is my favourite song of the project, despite a slightly lacklustre verse from Cam'ron. Coming into this mixtape I didn't know what to expect, and the first song, Trap and a Dream featuring Meek Mill sets the project off to a great start. ![]() ![]() On Still Striving, A$AP Ferg has somewhat returned to the glory of his Trap Lord days after his last album, Always Strive and Prosper, which On Still Striving, A$AP Ferg has somewhat returned to the glory of his Trap Lord days after his last album, Always Strive and Prosper, which was a slight dissapointment for me. ![]()
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