Troy Ave: “I Had the Absolute Best Rap Album of the Year” (@TroyAve)

Troy Ave spoke confidently with Complex about his late 2013 release, New York City: The Album, and why he thinks it should be strongly considered for Best Rap Album of 2013.  When asked what he believed to be the Best Rap Album of 2013, the answer was easy for Troy.

“Troy Ave, that’s a fact. Everybody knows that,” he said.  “The f*cking critics whatever, the real people who actually listened to that sh*t knows that. That’s not even a question. I had the absolute best Rap album of the year, I don’t care who you—and I made that sh*t on my budget out my pocket, this is street money. This is out the pocket I made this, it wasn’t no big multimillion dollar budget or however much these ni**as get. No, this sh*t straight up, real music don’t take that much money to make.

“That’s a fact, the truth don’t cost you nothing if you telling it, it’s the truth. So I definitely had the best Rap album, I don’t know who would disagree but if anybody even disagree, the fact that me, Troy Ave, totally independent artist from BSB Records could even be mentioned in the same realm as Drake, Pusha T, Jay Z, that mean I already won. I’m not supposed to even be getting mentioned in that for album of the year.”

He continued by praising his music for maintaining the street element which he considers to be the essence of rap music as a whole.  Troy feels as though there are other categories of rap that have formed over the years, but street rap stands above all others.

“The essence of Rap is the streets, period.  From Kurtis Blow with a f*cking jheri curl, he was [rapping] some street sh*t. KRS-One, rapping some street sh*t. So street Rap always reigns supreme. Now you got the other sub-genres of Rap that need to be classified instead of bunching everything up together…I don’t give a f*ck about weirdo Rap, I know what I’m doing, and I represent the highest of the f*cking food chain of Rap, and that’s street Rap. That’s what I’m putting on.”

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Source: Complex.com