Rapper’s long-awaited new album Don’t Be Dumb arriving this fall
A$AP Rocky continues the lead-up to his much-anticipated new album Don’t Be Dumb with the LP’s latest single, “Ruby Rosary,” featuring J. Cole.
The two rappers trade verses over a downtempo, piano-laden beat crafted by the Alchemist:
A$AP Rocky has been teasing Don’t Be Dumb for the past few months, including the first single, “Highjack,” featuring Jessica Pratt and Jon Batiste. He premiered several untitled tracks from the LP — originally scheduled for August 30 but pushed to the fall — during Paris Fashion Week, when he debuted his first AWGE collection, American Sabotage.
However, Rocky’s recent track “Tailor Swif,” which he officially released after it leaked onto the internet, will not feature on Don’t Be Dumb.
Last year, he told Dazed he felt the new music was his “best work yet.” He added, “I want to leave expectations wide and open. I don’t want to tell you what to expect. I just want people to experience it how they do naturally.”
A$AP Rocky’s last LP, Testing, arrived in 2018. “We coming with a whole new aesthetic on everything, especially with German expressionism and the whole ghetto futurism grim thing,” the Harlem rapper recently said of his new music in an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1. “Shot a visual and yeah, this is part of the new saga.”