“Rap game like the crack game, swear it’s all the same, hustle” – A$AP Rocky, Canal St.
A$AP Rocky is a rapper, producer, style icon, and connoisseur of recreational drugs, or so you would think. His sophomore album At.Long.Last.A$AP features an inventory of drugs that range from almost-legal marijuana to tried-and-true LSD to trendier substances like bath salts – a lthough it isn’t clear he’s actually consumed the latter.
While the album is littered with straightforward references such as “Hit Canal Street, vintage gold medallion / Smokin’ blunts in front of public housing,” sometimes A$AP gets more elaborate, like with the lyric “Them other drugs just don’t fit me right Girl, I really fucking want love, sex, dream.” “Girl” refers to LSD, which is often personified as a woman (a common nickname for LSD is “Lucy,” which comes from the mistaken assumption that the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” is about an acid trip).
Check out the full list of drugs mentioned in At.Long.Last.A$AP and find additional references from ScHoolboy Q, Lil Wayne, and of course, A$AP Rocky.
