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ASAP Rocky and The Act of Playing The Tambourine
And its lessons for men all around the world.
ASAP Rocky must know that he is the luckiest man alive.
For whatever reason —divine providence or qualities that we aren’t privy to, he gets to go home to one of the most desirable women in the world — Rihanna Fenty and have babies with her.
And that makes him a figure of hate. At least in my eyes.
Our man’s capabilities as a rapper are distinctly average. His biggest hits have always featured players whose musical abilities are vastly, comparably superior to his. Anyone who has listened to ‘f..king problems’ which features Drake and Kendrick Lamar will understand my point.
Unlike Jay Z and Beyoncé Knowles or Barack and Michelle Obama —power couples in the strictest sense of the term — and by this I mean a rare dynamic in which the pulling power of each spouse is equal to the other, Mr. Rocky’s finances are no where near his very famous and world beating wife.
According to Forbes 2023, Rihanna is worth 2.2 billion dollars, dropping from 2.5 billion dollars, the previous year.
ASAP Rocky, on the other hand, is worth a measly 10 million dollars; a figure which represents chicken change to his missus and one that you could multiply several times over to get to her net…