Denzel Curry Talks Letting Go of ‘Grudge’ to Reconcile With ASAP Rocky and Ferg for Latest Album: ‘We Ended Up Having a Great Relationship’
The Florida rapper was taken off of A$AP Mob's 2017 album 'Cozy Tapes Vol. 2' due to his ties to producer SpaceGhostPurrp.
The beef between the reigning 2010s rap collectives ASAP Mob and Raider Klan has subsided now that Denzel Curry, ASAP Rocky and Ferg have mended their differences.
The feud began in 2012, around the time that Raider Klan founder and producer SpaceGhostPurpp accused ASAP Twelvyy of assaulting his cousin Matt Stoops. The tension broiled over onto social media and public run-ins between SpaceGhostPurpp and Rocky, leaving Curry and other Raider Klan members to essentially pick a side.
But in an exclusive chat with Chris Barilla from People, Curry claims that he and Rocky still attempted to collaborate with each other. The reconnection wouldn't happen for years, until the two would eventually link on "Hoodlumz" from Curry's new album, King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2.
"I was supposed to be on the original Cozy Tapes Vol. 2 on 'Bahamas,'" Curry told the publication about the 2017 song. "But [Rocky] took me off because me and Purpp got cool [again] around that time, and then me and [Rocky] had a talk and I was telling him like, 'Bro, your problem with Purpp is not your problem with me, so you shouldn't have took it out on me. You should have just hollered at me.' And he was like, 'Yeah, I know. My bad,' this that third. And we got cool."
But it was years later that Curry would see Pretty Flacko in person while in the studio and approached him for a collaboration.
"I remember Rocky coming in straight from the gym hooded up, so nobody knew it was him," Curry recalled. "And I'm like, 'Who the fuck is this guy with these pretty ass teeth?' And it just turns out it was Rocky. And he was like, 'Damn, Curry, what's happening? How you been?' He was like, 'We was doing good.' And I was like, 'Man, we working on this shit.' He heard the song and he was like, 'Oh shit. Well, I'm finna go home. I'm finna get changed and I'll come back.'"
Calling the collaboration "a good time," Curry also patched things up with fellow Mob member ASAP Ferg, even opening for him alongside IDK on the Mad Man tour in 2018. On Curry's new album, Ferg and TiaCorine are on lead single “Hot One.“
"We ended up having a great relationship and I'm cool with Ferg to this day. That's my boy. And we was able to show, put the energy back together and show what could have been as opposed to still having that grudge."
As for SpaceGhostPurpp, Curry claims that the producer was "trying" him, but "was not getting on the record."
Curry took up for ASAP Mob following the 2015 passing of founding member ASAP Yams on 2016 freestyle track "RIP Yams (SPACEGHOSTPUSSY)," which featured Lofty 305, Ski Mask the Slump God and the late XXXTentacion.
