A biography for ASAP Ferghasn’t been written yet.
“There's no racism with the Internet.”
“Rapping can be repetition sometimes. Sometimes you gotta highlight your words in a certain kind of way. So I always was a fan of sing-rapping. It was always funny to me a little bit, and I think that being funny and being able to laugh, even at yourself, is a form of flattery.”
“Jeremy Scott reminds me of Harmony Korine, mixing all worlds and making them into one - you just never know what he's up to.”
“I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.”
“'Going Back to Cali' is one of my favorite songs because of all the East Coast - West Coast rivalry.”
“I got a lot of fans who are not even into fashion. So they look at me and wear what I wear because it's cool or looks cool.”
“I used to be a daredevil on BMX bikes.”
“Me jumping on a song with Ariana Grande is just showing versatility, you know what I'm saying?”
“When I was growing up, I saw the Aaliyah shirts, the DMX shirts, or the collab shirts with DMX and Aaliyah when they had a single together. Those were the dope collage shirts with their faces all over it. They were doing cool things like that.”
“'Illmatic' was dope.”
“I used to listen to 'Ready to Die' around the time I dropped out of college. I was scrambling for work and money.”
“Racism been over. It's the old people that keep on holding on to it.”
“I'm not a manufactured artist. Nobody taught me how to be a proper artist.”
“There's no borders or lines you can't cross anymore. Everything is getting blended with everything. That's the dope thing about music now. Some people don't like it, more of the older people. They want to, you know, go back to old-school New York hip-hop.”
“I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one - music, fashion, and art. I'm hitting it from all angles.”
“I'm really into simple things - things you could wear every day.”
“A lot of rappers been putting out a lot of sub-par visuals. I feel like the visuals could be better.”
“Mixtapes are always small scale to me - they never get taken seriously, and they're always short-lived.”
“I create art. It's kinda abstract.”
“People who are scared don't live life.”