The Long Wait For A$AP Rocky: When Hiatuses Become Hollow

The Long Wait For A$AP Rocky: When Hiatuses Become Hollow Will Don’t Be Dumb ever drop? A$AP Rocky’s cool mystique is stuck in limbo, turning patient fans into increasingly cynical observers. Not all hiatuses are made the same. Unfortunately, in a world where visual aesthetics and short attention spans play hand-in-hand, there’s little to grasp beyond what we can see. For the mysterious artists who feel they can disguise their face and expect the world to come to them, they’re stuck chasing the anomaly of early 2010s marketing when artists like The Weeknd and Frank Ocean managed to catch lightning in a bottle with dedicated fanbases. For the average celebrity, they’re stuck in the same rat race as the rest of us. Touring artists, specifically, don’t have the luxury of vacationing or taking breaks like executives, labelheads, and investors do. Even our favorites are burnt out; they just have the resources to disguise it better than we do. But when artists mist...