MusicIncomingA$AP Rocky + The A$AP Mob: Harlem State of MindA$AP Rocky and his crew give Dazed Digital a guided tour of their Harlem hotspots in this exclusive Tim Noakes filmShareLink copied ✔️January 26, 2012MusicIncomingTextTim NoakesA$AP Rocky + The A$AP Mob: Harlem State of Mind2 Imagesview more + For the latest Dazed cover story, I went to NYC to meet hip hop’s golden boy, A$AP Rocky and his A$AP Mob to get the low down on his overnight success and to take a tour of the crew’s favourite local spots. After a shopping spree in Soho, the fashion fanatics braved sub zero temperatures for a photo shoot on Harlem’s legendary Rucker Park basketball court with Ari Marcopoulos before heading home to 116th Street for a soul food banquet at Amy Ruth’s. They even squeezed in an impromptu house call on one of their grannies who hadn’t seen Rocky since his videos “Peso” and “Purple Swag” blew up and landed the 24-year-old rapper with a $3 million record deal. The next day I met them and a very large Rottweiler called Brody at a crumbling mansion in New Jersey as they filmed the final scene of Rocky’s “Wassup” video. It was a wild 24 hours… A$AP Rocky portrait shot by Ari Marcopoulos for Dazed & Confused Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MORE7 essential albums by the SoulquariansThe KPop Demon Hunters directors on fan theories and a potential sequelFashion is filthier than ever at the Barbican’s Dirty Looksplaybody: The club night bringing connection back to the dancefloorAn interview with IC3PEAK, the band Putin couldn’t silenceVanmoofWhat went down at Dazed and VanMoof’s joyride around BerlinFrost Children answer the dA-Zed quizThe 5 best features from PinkPantheress’ new remix albumMoses Ideka is making pagan synth-folk from the heart of south LondonBehind-the-scenes at Oklou and FKA twigs’ new video shootBjörk calls for the release of musician ‘kidnapped’ by Israeli authorities‘Her dumbest album yet’: Are Swifties turning on Taylor Swift?