A$AP Rocky – Wants To Make Hip Hop Music Proud, Speaks About His Suicidal Instincts [VIDEO]

Harlem's upcoming rapper A$AP Rocky has goals that differs from most of the current new breed of hip hop artists. He is producing music with a difference. His primary aim is to make countless hip hop listeners proud with his music.

The 24-year-old rapper released his first mixtape "LiveLoveA$AP" in 2011 earning him critical acclaims. His debut album "Long Live A$AP" will be released, Jan.15. The album's release date has been delayed several times. It will feature several guest appearance from artists like Schoolboy Q, Santigold, OverDoz, Kendrick Lamar, 2 Chainz, Drake, Big K.R.I.T., Yelawolf, Danny Brown, Action Bronson, Joey Badass, Gunplay, A$AP Ferg and Florence Welch. He released two tracks that have already gained good response from fans and critics alike.

Calling himself "anti-bandwagon," Rocky has a cultural and artistic mission.

"I thought I had [the baton from the older generation]. I thought I was running with it. I thought we all were," he explained in an interview with MTV. "We gotta hold it down for the young cats man. My thing is, I just want to make everybody who enjoys music and art and Hip Hop music proud," he said of his artistic and cultural mission. That's all I want to do. I don't want y'all to say this guy is misrepresenting us or he's giving it a bad name. I just want to represent Hip Hop well and I want to show you guys my aspect on what I think Hip Hop should be."

"That's why all my videos are, I guess I want to say, different than your standard Hip Hop video. That's why all of my lyrics and my production choices and just my rapping scheme and patterns are different than your average artist because I'm an innovator. I'm like anti-bandwagon. That's what I'm running with for 2013 and I'm gonna show these guys how to step it up," he boasted proudly. "If they gonna be competing against me, man, they're gonna have to get it together."

Rocky Speaks About Suicide

It is with personal experience that Rocky discusses about suicide. Incidentally he has rapped on Suicide on his song "Phoenix." Suicide has become a topic of concern after Pro Era member Capital STEEZ AND rapper Freddy E committed suicide.

In the track "Phoenix" talks about his suicide inclinations. He explains that these emotions come to everyone and they are normal.

"Bloody ink on my pad spelled suicide/Michael Jackson even passed cause you scrutinized' - those are natural feelings that we all get sometimes. You hurt so bad and you're going through so much pain to the point where sometimes you don't even wanna live anymore. That's how a lot of people think, whether we'd like to admit it or not and that's all I was showcasing. It was that emotion...suicidal kinda emotions...I'm not glorifying it at all. I'm just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal thoughts. And maybe I should seek help, or maybe it's not that deep," HipHopDX reported.

Watch the complete interview below (Courtesy: MTV):