'to donate to the channel my cash app is $Uga1994 or PayPal.me/ejohnson1994 or PayPal.me/ejohnson0418 Long. Live. ASAP (stylized as LONG.LIVE.A$AP) is the debut studio album by American rapper ASAP Rocky. It was released on January 15, 2013, by ASAP Worldwide, Polo Grounds Music, and RCA Records. The album features guest appearances from Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, 2 Chainz, Drake, Big K.R.I.T., Santigold, Overdoz, Yelawolf, Florence Welch, Danny Brown, Action Bronson, Joey Badass, Gunplay, and ASAP Ferg. The album\'s production was handled by Rocky himself (under the pseudonym Lord Flacko), Hector Delgado, Hit-Boy, Clams Casino, Jim Jonsin, T-Minus, Danger Mouse, 40, Skrillex, and Emile Haynie, among other high-profile producers. May 2011, Rocky quit selling drugs and decided to focus on his rap career.[1] When he released a music video for his song \"Purple Swag\", it garnered Internet buzz and attention from record labels, despite negative feedback from his native hip hop scene in New York.[1] He was courted by several labels, including the RCA-distributed Polo Grounds Music.[2] However, he held off from any deal with a label, instead wanting to explore other pursuits.[2] Rocky and Polo Grounds president Bryan Leach, also a Harlem native, subsequently spent time talking about music and lifestyles.[2] In August 2011, Rocky following a music video for the song \"Peso\", which first appeared on internet blogs and eventually received radio airplay on New York City\'s Hot 97. The song also earned him respect in the New York scene, of which he later said, \"It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant\" After a bidding war among labels, Rocky signed a record deal with Polo Grounds and RCA on October 14, a week after RCA\'s parent label, Sony Music, absorbed Jive, J and Arista into RCA itself It was worth $3 million, with $1.7 million for his solo work and $1.3 million to fund his company ASAP Worldwide. Rocky said that he sought a \"bigger platform\" for him and his collective with the deal. His first studio album will be planned to be under the deal, but it allowed him to continue releasing mixtapes through RED Distribution Long. Live. ASAP was named the seventh best hip hop album of 2013 by Exclaim!. Complex ranked it at number 19 on their list of the 50 best albums of 2013. Pigeons & Planes positioned it at number 25 on their list of the best albums of 2013. Pitchfork placed it at number 39 on their list of the 50 best albums of 2013.Long. Live. ASAP debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, with 139,000 album-equivalent units and 139,000 copies in pure album sales in its first week. As of April 17, 2013, the album had sold 312,000 copies in the United States. As of April 30, 2015, the album has sold 518,000 in the United States. On October 16, 2019, the album was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of 2,000,000 units in the United States.'
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