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A$AP Rocky has revealed the tracklist for his new album Don’t Be Dumb forward of its long-awaited launch this Friday (January 16).
Dubbed “a real masterpiece by A$AP Rocky and his alter egos,” the challenge options 15 songs together with the not too long ago launched “Helicopter$” and “Punk Rocky.”
Other tracks embrace “Stole Ya Flow,” “Stop Snitching” and “Whiskey (I’m Not Resisting),” all of which the Harlem rapper has carried out dwell lately.
Guest options and producers stay beneath wraps for now, however Rocky has teased a variety of high-profile collaborators together with Tyler, The Creator, Metro Boomin and Busta Rhymes, amongst others.
There are additionally rumors that the elusive Frank Ocean will make a uncommon look on the track “Air Force (Black DeMarco)” after its producer, Digital Nas, strongly hinted as much on X (previously Twitter) earlier this week.
UPDATE: A$AP Rocky has revealed the Don’t Be Dumb options by way of Spotify billboards selling the album. Tyler, The Creator, Westside Gunn, Doechii, Brent Faiyaz, Thundercat, Gorillaz, BossMan Dlow, will.i.am, Danny Elfman, Jon Batiste, Slay Squad and Jessica Pratt are all set to seem.
A$AP Rocky — Don’t Be Dumb (Tracklist):
1. Order of Protection
2. Helicopter$
3. Interrogation (Skit)
4. Stole Ya Flow
5. Stay Here
6. Playa
7. Trespass
8. Stop Snitching
9. STFU
10. Punk Rocky
11. Air Force (Black DeMarco)
12. Whiskey (I’m Not Resisting)
13. Robbery
14. Don’t Be Dumb / Trip Baby
15. The End
One confirmed (and central) contributer to Don’t Be Dumb is Tim Burton, the legendary filmmaker behind Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and the late ’80s/early ’90s Batman films.
Burton’s title seems on the official cowl artwork, which he additionally designed, whereas the tracklist describes the album as “the nightmare b4 the discharge” — a transparent nod to Burton’s 1982 poem The Nightmare Before Christmas (which was, after all, later was a cult-classic movie).
“I like Tim Burton, man. I’ve been impressed by him [since] a baby,” A$AP Rocky advised Vanity Fair final 12 months. “I feel what he does with claymation and the way he transcended into live-action films, the parallels between them and [how] he seamlessly included it from matte portray to German Expressionism. I feel he’s a fucking genius.”
Longtime Burton collaborator, the composer Danny Elfman, can also be concerned, with A$AP Rocky saying in the identical interview: “Danny Elfman did my album with me, he scored a bunch of the track. We had [the TV] on mute and had been simply making music to the entire previous fims, Pee-wee’s Playhouse and The Simpsons, all that.”
As for the “alter egos” half, a clue might lie within the vinyl listing of Don’t Be Dumb.
“The 15-track [album] strikes by genres the best way you’d transfer by a metropolis — jazz, hip hop, steel, indie, R&B — every monitor capturing a unique block, temper, or second. It’s Rocky in full vary,” it reads.
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