A$AP Ferg opens up about why he chose to share his experience of childhood molestation on a raw, personal track from his new album, DAROLD. In doing so, he gives listeners an intimate glimpse into a painful chapter of his life.
Reports say the rapper opened up about the meaning behind his song “Pool” in an interview on Tuesday.
His song stated, “At ten I was drowned and touched when I was in the pool/All the breath left my body where I couldn’t move,” he raps on the song. “Violated, hand on my private by a bigger dude/Seconds felt like forever, really wasn’t cool/When he seen me ’round the block, he’d smile and laugh/As if we had a little secret, and I hated that/Thinking ’bout what he did really made me mad/Even thought about murder, wanted to kill his ass/Told nobody except my cousin/One time, he made a joke, but he ain’t know nothing/I asked God, ‘Why me? Let me know something!’/I like girls, fuck he thought, that n-gga on something?”
Ferg revealed that opening up about his past was something he had long considered, but it took time to find the right moment.
Ferg Opens Up on Pool’s Personal Journey and Healing Message.
As the interview went on, Ferg began to speak on the process behind writing the song and other tracks he wrote. He said, “It took me eight years to write ‘Pool.’ It was three songs that I had wrote to get to that point.” “I wrote a song called ‘We Don’t Judge’ and Chance The Rapper‘s on there and Stacy Barthe. I’ma still put that out. Then I wrote another song called ‘Innocent Child’ which was like three different stories about three different people [and] the last story was mine.”
Furthermore, Ferg explained how he felt the track would help others who may be dealing with similar trauma.
He voiced, “I wanted to basically create a piece of art that my kid could find or like kids could find and and listen to it.” “I’m still jiggy, I’m still this person or whatever and let them know that the things that happen to you really happen for you but [also], the things that happen to you – it doesn’t define you. […] Not just in the hood, I feel like this is going on everywhere and people just not going to talk about it. And I’m like yo, what am I talking about? I didn’t make that happen to me. That ain’t mine to be trying to hold inside.”
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