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Is A$AP Rocky Removing the A$AP from His Stage Name · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan seacrest Rihanna's romantic partner and
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  Speaker 1: father of her children.
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  Speaker 2: Is best known by his stage name ASAP Rocky, but
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  Speaker 2: will he be removing the ASAP part in the future.
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  Speaker 2: It comes from the creative collective Asap Mob he's been
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  Speaker 2: a part of since before he was famous. But the
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  Speaker 2: other most successful rapper from the group, Asap, Ferg, has
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  Speaker 2: just revealed he's officially dropped it from his professional name
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  Speaker 2: and is now only releasing music as Ferg, while also
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  Speaker 2: making it clear there's no bad blood. Ferg tells the
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  Speaker 2: Tore podcast there is no ASAP anymore. There's no office,
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  Speaker 2: no label ASAP worldwide. It's a thing of the past.
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  Speaker 2: People hold on to the legacy we created. But when
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  Speaker 2: you think about ASAP from the music point, you think
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  Speaker 2: about me and Rocky who made the music. We're the faces.
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  Speaker 2: So if we're not making new music, then there's no ASAP.
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  Speaker 2: We came together as a collective and loved it, but
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  Speaker 2: we've grown into different entities. But we did something positive
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  Speaker 2: and created opportunities for ourselves and our friends. We did
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  Speaker 2: that for twelve years. That's the artist formerly known as Asap.
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  Speaker 2: Ferg on why He's shortened his stage name to Ferg
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  Speaker 2: and it's tvd if asp Rocky will follow suit. Ferg's
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  Speaker 2: new album Daryld is out now.
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