Action Bronson has an active imagination. With each new collection of music he releases, with each dab hit he inhales, with each Eataly meal he consumes, his visions get more vivid. The Queens-born rapper is hip-hop’s Hunter S. Thompson—and Mr. Wonderful, his major-label debut LP out today through VICE/Atlantic, is his Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. To wit: “Twisted off the jenkem, watching Iron Chef/The secret ingredient was lion’s neck.” To double wit: “We took acid for ten days straight up in the mountains/Started running with the stallions/Playing Frisbee in the West Indies, did the tango with my kidneys.”
Read More