Clearly there was a story, and indeed Rocky deferred to Mandler to recount how the rapper actually broke his nose shooting a scene. But when asked about memorable moments from filming, the trio got very quiet before immediately laughing. and director Anthony Mandler about the movie. Monster had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last week, and Collider got the chance to speak with Rocky, Monster star Kelvin Harrison Jr. The long-developing adaptation of the Walter Dean Meyers book revolves around a teenager who is wrongfully imprisoned for robbery and felony murder, and Rocky plays one of the film’s antagonists William King.
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When buzz about a potential joint album began to circulate, he shut down rumors with a simple tweet, telling fans, “Don’t get your hopes up and be ‘disappointed’ because something that doesn’t really exist didn’t come out.” In other words, if you’re waiting for that upcoming A$AP Rocky–designed line of babushkas to put on your own head, you might want to keep waiting.A$AP Rocky has certainly become one of the most popular recording artists working today, but he’s making a big step into the world of acting with a dramatic turn in the upcoming Monster. The babushka then turned out to be enough of a look that the rapper continues to wear a babushka often when he goes out in public, especially while performing his song “Babushka.”Īs far as any other future project with A$AP Rocky’s name on it goes, the rapper’s longtime friend and sometimes collaborator Tyler, the Creator shared some choice words on Twitter earlier this week. Basically on some shit so in case Trevor Noah asked me, I was just gonna be like, ‘I have a toothache,'” referring to the 1994 film version of theclassic family show about mischievous neighborhood kids.
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“I kind of wanted to make it look like that. “Honestly, it was inspired by Alfalfa-you ever see the Little Rascals, when he pretended to have a toothache?” he asked. “Had to get plastic surgery and here we are.”Ī$AP Rocky admitted, however, that his interpretation of the babushka look itself actually came from what many might consider to be an unexpected pop culture moment of the past.
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“I was riding a Razor scooter, I did a pop up wheelie and just ate shit and I just had a fucking big gash on my face,” he said. When asked to further clarify how he reportedly slashed his face, the rapper bristled a bit. I actually did a Vogue shoot the day after I got my face slashed,” the rapper continued. “It started with a yellow one when I was on Trevor Noah’s show. “It was inspired by a situation I had where my face got cut, and I started walking around with a Babushka to cover it. Of course, A$AP Rocky is not the first musician to wear a scarf on his head while performing, but not only has his trendy look motivated his fellow musicians to wrap themselves up in headscarves in the name of fashion, it also inspired a track called “Babushka,” which A$AP Rocky told GQ originated after a gnarly scooter incident. On his recently public Instagram account, the crooner shared a selfie of himself bundled all the way up, with the caption “FaceTimes in Babushka.” A$AP Rocky later commented, “?BABUSHKA BOI” which sparked fans to speculate that the two may be linking up in the near future for an upcoming project, since the two have collaborated in the past on a track called “Purity.” The rapper has also added the phrase “BABUSHKA BOI” to his Instagram bio. Now, thanks to the rapper’s GQ tour diary, fans finally have an explanation for the inspiration behind the look, which admittedly comes from a somewhat inconsistent story, but what else do you expect from Pretty Boy Flacko?Ī$AP Rocky isn’t the only musician to adopt the stylings of an Eastern European grandmother: His scarf-heavy look appears to have also inspired Frank Ocean. Silk gang, silk city,” he said of his decision to wear the babushka back in November. “I’m encouraging all guys to wear babushkas from here on out. When A$AP Rocky appeared at LACMA’s 2018 Art+Film Gala, he and his Gucci headscarf sent Twitter ablaze with memes, mostly involving jokes about “grandmas” of various nationalities and ethnicities. In 2018, the balaclava ruled the runway, and it would appear that the trend has progressed off the runway to include babushka-like headscarves in 2019.