“Hun43rd” is classic Rocky - it actually sounds like it’s right off of Live Love A$ap the old SGP trippy type of beat and layers of distorted vocals. “Changes” is a musical journey split into chapters across beat…changes. I’d also like to bring up how instead of using the voicemail interlude trope we’ve all heard before he had a phone call verse on “CALLDROPS”…and did adlibs for said verse. Y’all must have no soul to not appreciate this one.
Also, he took us to Motown on “Brotha Man” with strings, keys and a lead melody that only appears on the right side of our headphones – a technique straight from the past. This may have been annoying to some but it shows just how much you can do when using a sample. And he’s matching the flow of that second song with his verses. We most recently heard how creative vocal layering could be executed on IGOR and When I Get Home. Rocky layered vocals in his own way on “Gunz N Butter” to the point where it almost seems like there’s two songs playing at the same time. But when it comes down to it, Rocky was doing things that weren’t traditional on purpose…and doing them well. The biggest issue people had with Testing was the music itself. But let’s be real, this album didn’t connect with a lot of people due to the expectations that it would sound like “ALLA” and it didn’t. Now, it could be because everyone was too immersed in the Drake/Pusha T/Kanye situation because Rocky dropped right in the middle of the shit. When we first discussed Testing, there was a lot of backlash.
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