After creating quite an underground stir at the "mixtape" level, young Brooklyn rapper A$AP Rocky stepped up to a major label in 2013 for his "official" debut. He more than delivered on the hype, too, turning in a mainstream hip-hop record that managed to mix pop-savvy bangers like "Fuckin' Problems" - a beast of a tune featuring Drake, Kendrick Lamar and 2 Chainz - with more off-kilter, drug-damaged fare quite apart from anything else on the charts. A major new voice in hip-hop had arrived.

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