Still Striving

A$AP Ferg - Still Striving
Critic Score
Based on 7 reviews
2017 Ratings: #868 / 940
User Score
Based on 441 ratings
2017 Rank: #787
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CRITIC REVIEWS

74
HipHopDX

Still Striving sounds like a direct continuation of 2016’s Always Strive And Prosper with a hint of 2017 sprinkled in.

67
Pretty Much Amazing

Sophomore album Always Strive and Prosper had ASAP Ferg striving to expand his lyrical and sonic palette and prospering less than half of the time. Still Striving then, perhaps self-consciously titled, course-corrects by dropping pretense and delivering what we came to Ferg for in the first place: banging beats, fire flows.

65
Paste

Still Striving isn’t groundbreaking, but it’s a solid record. Ferg has the chops to be considered one of his generation’s greats, but in terms of creative vision and originality, he’s still not quite there.

61
Pitchfork

Though he’s still got style on the mic, Ferg’s latest is a regression into the gleeful ignorance that colored his earlier work.

60
The Needle Drop
NY rapper A$AP Ferg delivers a slight return to form with his latest mixtape.
40
Exclaim!
The project's title is deceptively ambitious — rather than build on last year's clearheaded introspection and lush beats, Ferg regresses lyrically, and pairs his bland rhymes with uninspired production that's hard to sit through.
smallpeeble
50

this isso bland idek. there are just two tracks that i find tolerable to listen

gopxity
65

This is honestly the only Ferg project that comes anywhere close to the quality of Trap Lord. Originally, I was hesitant about it because of how many features are on this project, but I think it fits the vibe of the mixtape. This project has plenty of bangers on it and it's easily some of his best work.

Favorite tracks: Rubber Band Man, Olympian, Mad Man, Plain Jane, East Coast REMIX
Least favorite: Nasty

TurbulenceSSB
59

This is definitely a step up from Always Strive and Prosper in a sort of sense, but man does it have problems. Ferg seems to leave the pop rap stuff behind from his previous record(which I personally think is to his advantage, but in exchange, we're given an unholy amount of features to compensate. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of great features here but then we have features like... NAV... Lil Yachty... Famous Dex on Coach Cartier, which are simply just horrifyingly bad and serve ... read more

qwayZ
95

track 8
1:30

Joe Biden anthem

GusCreter
60

The tracks that really hit give the "Trap Lord" energy where Ferg really strives. There are quite a few tracks that try more a more mainstream sound that genuinely flop. Ferg needs to stick to his strengths.

Yackason
58

aoty cooking me with these error codes dawg what did I do.
Well this thing started out kinda promising. First couple of tracks were bangers with some solid production but eventually this mixtape just became pretty dime a dozen trap. Ferg has energy and that was the one thing keeping me mostly interested, but this thing falls off a cliff around the halfway point. I don't like to harp on the writing too much when talking about trap, but it's pretty terrible in a lot of instances here. Not only is ... read more

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Added on: August 2, 2017