A$AP Rocky 解释《Multiply》中歌词对 Hood by Air 的攻击

「HBA shit is weak，you can keep that」是 A$AP Rocky 在自己最新单曲《Multiply》中对 Shayne Oliver 主理品牌 Hood by Air 的抨击。过去的 Rocky 可以说对 HBA 倍爱有加 ，除了亲身示范之外，在歌曲中以像「 I’m a stunna, Hood by Air for the summer / Toast to the God and it cost nine hunna.」和「Hood by Air, to the do-rag,」这样的歌词来力挺品牌，但其现在的行为较之前可谓是180 度大转弯。而纽约时尚媒体 The Cut 也针对此话题在由 Dior 赞助的古根海姆国际慈善晚宴中采访了 A$AP Rocky。他仍旧坚持歌词中抨击 Hood by Air 以及 Been Trill 的观点，并解释了歌词背后的意义，声称这是因为现在的自己对于时尚的理解已经不同于以往，但不意味着和两品牌之间有巨大的矛盾。以下便是 The Cut 采访 A$AP Rocky 的原文。

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.

And there is an aspect of those guys that doesn’t get that?

They changed. They look like me now. Or at least they try to.

I’m just trying to understand what you mean. These guys don’t understand what you experienced in fashion?

What guys are you referring to at the moment?

The Hood by Air folks.

I’m not even talking about them at the moment; I’m talking about regular, typical motherfuckers, people in the hood, in middle America, all around the world.