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Last but not least, Action Bronson released his debut album in 2011, which caught A$AP Rocky’s eye and added to the density of the feature list of this song. This connection led to Danny Brown’s feature on this track.

One train asap rocky youtube series#

A$AP Rocky was so entranced by him that he ended up producing one of Danny Brown’s later music videos and did a series on Noisey called Back and Forth.

Danny Brown is a Detroit rapper who rose to fame in 2011 with his provocative album XXX. A$AP Rocky let him on to the project and let him rap about his struggles. Yelawolf is a rapper from Alabama who found it hard at the time to distinguish himself from other white rappers, especially Eminem. The two then joined the growing feature list simultaneously. Joey Bada$$ started off by uploading a video of himself rapping on YouTube in 2010 at the age of 15, which caught the attention of Big KRIT’s manager.

Dre, which lead to A$AP Rocky including Kendrick on this track. Kendrick Lamar is a rapper from Compton who rose to fame in 2012 with the aid of his mysterious connection to Dr. The group pays homage extensively to their Harlem origin throughout their own singles as well as when the group comes together for a track or album. Not many have made themselves household names besides Playboi Carti, A$AP Ferg, and A$AP Rocky. The hip-hop collective A$AP Mob was formed in 2006 and has about 15 members. At the time of the release of this song on January 15, 2013, these rappers were all up and coming artists and all of them have made it big in their own ways since appearing on this track.Ī$AP Rocky is a Harlemite through and through he brings New York wherever he goes. These vary from names I had known from beforehand, such as Kendrick Lamar and Yelawolf, to artists who were completely new to me, such as Danny Brown and Big KRIT. Another aspect of the song that drew me in was the number of features. One part of the name that I found funny when I first thought about was that a song is often called a “track,” which brings the potential for very many puns. Additionally, the 1 train runs through Harlem, the neighborhood A$AP Rocky and the rest of the A$AP Mob hail from. The 1 train is especially notorious as one of the least reliable lines of the MTA, which why it was chosen as the tile of this song. One of the things that initially drew me to pick this song was the title.