Rap Athenas: From Juvenile's "Ha" to A$AP Rocky's "Peso"
The first time I saw the videos for Juvenile’s “Ha” (1998) and A$AP Rocky’s “Peso” (2011), I felt I was witnessing the birth of something full-grown, wrapped in tattoos, front teeth full of jewels, wrought in an aesthetic emerging organically out of a world and a worldview both foreign and familiar.
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