{"id":101822,"date":"2026-01-16T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/101822\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T01:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:00:39","slug":"why-asap-rockys-new-album-took-so-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/101822\/","title":{"rendered":"Why ASAP Rocky\u2019s New Album Took So Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u2013 I just always said to myself, like, I ain\u2019t gonna rush it, man. I thought I was ready in 2024, and it was just, like, I thought the court case was going to be, you know, done by, you know, that fall. That kept getting pushed back, and it was just, like, kind of hard to really focus, you know what I mean? Not only that, it\u2019s just like me being a parent played a big part in it. I want to be there. I want to be present. I want to be, you know, supportive of my family and [expletive] like that. And, that took some time out. So, and not only that, all of these different instances is what gave me new material to talk about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2013 I just always said to myself, like, I ain\u2019t gonna rush it, man. I thought I was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46590,46592,36409,2538,9,11,10,6161,46591],"class_list":{"0":"post-101822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-asap-rockyrakim-mayers","9":"tag-asap-yams","10":"tag-drake","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-rap-and-hip-hop","16":"tag-rihanna"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}