A$AP Ferg confirmed to XXL today that his upcoming DJ Drama-hosted mixtape Ferg Forever is dropping on Black Friday (Nov. 28). Why Black Friday? " I don't know," the A$AP Mob member confirmed to XXL while in the offices today. "I guess because it's done already and that's the closest holiday, so why not?" [Laughs]

The highly anticipated tape is the first project since Ferg released his debut album Trap Lord in August of last year ("Trap Lord in stores August 20," A$AP Rocky famously said). The cover art for Ferg Forever is very important to Ferg. He previously states that his father created the logo and when his pops died he vowed to take the "logo and name to a new heights.” He elaborated more on the idea behind the title and the inspiration behind the tape Ferg Forever.

"My father's name was D. Ferg as well, Darold Ferguson," Ferg said. "He did a lot of stuff with the hip-hop community as far as designing the Bad Boy logo, doing the Uptown Records logo for Andre Harrell. He was big in Harlem and around the world. Basically, he had a boutique, a store in Harlem, and he sold Ferg apparel. He had this crazy logo that I kind of wanted to bring back into existence and just basically just like kind of do this project in his name. Since I've come out, I've touched on the subject but I feel like people haven't identified with me being from Harlem and my origins.

"So I kinda wanna go into depth about my character, where I come from, my family, 'cause my family is like Harlem royalty. Well-respected. From my Uncle being in the streets, my grandmother helpin' out the community to my Aunt helping my father with the store and him printing shirts for Teddy Riley and Puffy and all these people—these were all his friends. So the name rings bells. And when you hear Ferg, it really don't hit them, because it's like, 'A$AP Ferg, the new kid.' But really it's like Ferg, the family, the legacy. Ferg forever."

Ferg released two cuts from the project already entitled “Perfume” and “Doe-Active.”—Reporting by Dan Rys

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