It looks like there’s no hard feelings between A$AP Rocky and FERG over the latter’s decision to change his name and the former’s subsequent comments regarding said name change.
FERG took to his Instagram feed to announce that the follow-up to his third solo album Darold is finished and put out an APB for a distributor. “I just finished my new album,” he wrote in a screenshot that he posted. “Who wants to distribute it?”
Rocky raised his hand, with the Harlem rapper hopping in the comments to congratulate his friend and seemingly offering up the services of his AWGE label. “U know where home is,” he wrote in a comment that included a red heart emoji. “Congratulations.”
The two have been going back and forth through the media recently after each has been asked about FERG dropping the A$AP from his stage name. While the decision hasn’t necessarily created a riff between the two old friends and collaborators, Rocky did express disappointment. “I saw a couple interviews where he was just like, he ain’t A$AP and he dropped A$AP from his name,” he told Apple Music. “That sh– bothered me but I ain’t gon’ hold it against him, and I wish him the best.”
FERG responded in an interview with Complex, saying that removing A$AP from his name was about growth. “I feel like that’s a personal thing for him,” he said about Rocky saying he was initially “bothered” by the decision. “You could feel how you want to feel, but at the end of the day, it’s like I got to follow my truth for sure and how I feel. And there’s nothing wrong with growing.”
As FERG gets set to drop his upcoming project, Rocky is gearing up to do his first Australia and New Zealand tour in eight years with five dates in December.