ASAP Rocky to release instrumental album

ASAP Rocky’s skills on the microphone — and as a fashion plate — are what earned him a spot at Power 106’s all-star PowerHouse concert, set to bring a bill that also includes Future, Big Sean and Chris Brown to the Honda Centre in Anaheim on Saturday night.

But now the New York rapper is cultivating a different talent: as a producer.

According to MTV, ASAP Rocky will release an instrumental album this summer titled ‘Beauty and the Beast: Slowed Down Sessions, Chapter 1’.

“It’s really druggy, ambient [stuff],” he said. “It’s slowed down and it’s real vibey, with no lyrics.” The MC went on to describe the album — which he said he plans to release for free online — as a mixture of “classical beautiful music” and “boom-bap Wu-Tang” beats.

“I think people are gonna be intrigued by it because it’s actually good,” he continued. “I wouldn’t do nothing that I didn’t feel confident or comfortable about.”

ASAP Rocky co-produced several cuts on his 2013 major-label debut, ‘Long Live ASAP’, including the appealingly woozy ‘Suddenly’.