A$AP Ferg w/Denzel Curry & IDK (all-ages, 8pm)

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A$AP Ferg

Like A$AP Rocky, the other marquee member of New York’s fashionable A$AP Mob collective, A$AP Ferg has always had impeccable taste in production, which he demonstrated on his striking debut record, Trap Lord. But more than anybody else in his crew, Ferg hasn’t been afraid to get personal. On his 2016 sophomore album, Always Strive and Prosper, he stepped out of character to write vividly and emotionally about his family and his upbringing. “I felt like it was something I had to do in order to move forward,” he explained to the Shepherd in an interview last fall. “I gave them the character of Trap Lord. I gave them the persona, the shell. It was my ego, Trap Lord. But I wanted to give them the human being, somebody who was bearing themselves to the public and who was vulnerable, so people could relate to me.” That soul bearing hasn’t come at the expense of bangers, though. His latest mixtape Still Striving is thick with them.