A$AP Rocky Drops ‘Angels Pt. 2’ Video for 10th Anniversary of ‘Long.Live.A$AP’
A$AP Rocky’s Long.Live.A$AP was released in January 2013, and to celebrate its 10th year anniversary, the rapper has released a reworked “Angels” music video dubbed “Angels Pt. 2.”
The AWGE and Sam Lecca-directed visual finds a young A$AP Rocky alongside his crew as a look back while giving it a new frame: it houses unreleased Los Angeles footage shot a decade ago and features the late A$AP Yams with a halo floating above his head.
Director Lecca tells Rolling Stone the pink-themed footage was filmed in Los Angeles on Jan. 13, 2013, with other scenes taking place in an alleyway on Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, in a photo studio, and on the studio’s rooftop.
“Months later in May of 2013, Rocky and I decided to shoot additional material in New York with him performing on the rooftop of a Harlem bodega, surrounded by his crew not only on the roof but also below in the street,” Lecca says. “Once it got dark we moved to the recording studio at Polo Grounds Music in the Bronx to shoot his performance surrounded by candles. I recall it was a chore to remove all the candle wax we spilled during that scene! I am thrilled to see this material release a decade later, as it includes rare performances of Rocky and unseen footage of the late A$AP Yams (may he rest eternally in peace).”
A$AP Rocky shared the video in a tweet. “TODAY MARKS THE 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY FOR MY 1ST COMMERCIAL ALBUM! I WANT 2 TAKE A MOMENT TO REFLECT & THINK ABOUT THE PPL I MISS & THE TIMES WE HAD. RIP YAMS & VIRGIL, THANK U 4 THE HELP ON THIS 1ST PROJECT. LONG. LIVE. A$AP.ANGELS -PT 2 AWGE EDIT OUT NOW!”
Long.Live.A$AP is the Harlem rapper’s major label debut. A sort of sequel to his 2011 Live.Love.A$AP mixtape, his debut includes collabs with Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, 2 Chainz, Drake, Santigold, Danny Brown, Florence Welch, and many more artists. The Number One charting record also spawned the singles “Fuckin Problems,” “Goldie,” “Wild for the Night,” and “Fashion Killa.”