Mar 20, 2015

You also have your sophomore album coming up. What's the state of it right now?

Honestly, it's finished. I'm mastering it right now. It's coming soon. Seriously soon.

Everyone's doing surprise albums -- Kendrick Lamar, Earl Sweatshirt. What about you?

I don't consider it a surprise -- you put it out there and it's art, that's the surprise. I hope people are surprised by my album. I don't know what to expect, I just do what I do.

What about it will surprise people?How diverse it is. People really don't know the other side of me. The deeper side, the more musical side, the more intellectual side. When I first came on the scene it was more of this trendy, bourgeois, pizazz attitude. That's still me but at the end of the day I think that kind of overshadowed the whole purpose of me doing what I do. I'm an incredibly diverse artist, I'm a universal artist. At least that's how I see it.

Who are some of the collaborators on the album?

I got one for you. [Long pause] Illz is thinking right now, like, "You know who it is!" Uh… [Long pause] Alright, fine. Three years ago, I did a song with Twigs.

FKA Twigs? Wow.

Also Lykke Li. Juicy J [who appears on single "Multiply"]. Clams Casino. I can't give nothing else away.

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Mar 20, 2015

He revealed that his as-yet-untitled sophomore album, the follow-up to 2013's Billboard 200 No. 1Long.Live.ASAP, was currently being mastered, and that alt-pop goddessesLykke Li and FKA Twigs and long-time producer Clams Casino are among the guest on the album, which was executive produced by Dangermouse and A$AP Yams