Ground Seats II, the latest comprehensive-size project from ASAP Ferg, is out now. As any individual who’s supplied the (rather fantastic) project some notice currently is familiar with, Ferg’s method to curating features—including the post-launch tracklist addition of “Large ASAP” with Monica—is decidedly on a different amount this time all-around.

And as he spelled out in a new social distancing-welcoming interview with Big Boy, Ferg seemed again to the peak MTV period for inspiration.

“You know what encouraged that? Basically, MTV encouraged that,” Ferg mentioned about five minutes in when Big Boy praised his function choices. “MTV encouraged my capabilities. And also ground seats, staying at a basketball recreation. So enable me make clear. MTV, mainly because they gave us assorted figures and a distinctive array of artists. We experienced Backstreet Boys. We had DMX. We had Marilyn Manson, Korn. You may possibly see a Michael Jackson online video. You could possibly see Diddy and Complete. Which is what I loved about MTV. It opened us up to what the suburban youngsters was undertaking because, us coming from the hood, we didn’t know what they was performing.”

Ferg elaborated more, pointing out what he “resonated with” as a young listener when being exposed to this MTV-curated array of artists.

“For Marilyn Manson, I resonated with a large amount of the visuals,” he stated. “For Korn, they was the rock dudes with the dreads that was rapping. For Kid Rock, he was rapping. For DMX, I could comprehend the Timberland boots and the motorcycles. Like, I noticed that coming up. I guess it just opened my mind up to all of these distinct worlds. The new environment. The world wide web.”