A$AP Rocky Moves Up Release Date For New Single Following Leak

A$AP Rocky is pushing up the discharge date for his new single “Tailor Swif” since, in his phrases, “u dummies leaked it already.”

The Harlem rapper took to social media with a fast preview of the visible this week, revealing it is going to now drop on Friday (August 30).

“Tailor Swift” was initially debuted manner again in July 2022 throughout Rocky’s set at Rolling Loud Portugal, and the tune and its accompanying visible leaked on-line days later.

The observe will stay on the forthcoming Don’t Be Dumb, which was not too long ago pushed again to an unspecified fall date.

SINCE U DUMMIES LEAKED IT ALREADY pic.twitter.com/AdMYUcNcne

— LORD FLACKO JODYE II (@asvpxrocky) August 29, 2024

Don’t Be Dumb will function A$AP Rocky’s first album in six years and the comply with as much as his third LP Testing, which arrived to blended opinions in 2018.

Initially set to be launched on August 30, Billboard‘s new cowl story revealed that the long-awaited undertaking has been pushed again to the autumn.

“At this point I’ve been working on music for six years, but they leak my music and I get over it and say, ‘Fuck it,’” he mentioned. “They leak a lot of the music and it ruins it. Like my ‘Tailor Swif’ video. I was pissed off about it, so I never released it.”

Flacko additionally described the undertaking as “the best album he’s ever made,” in accordance with the publication.

It continues: “Don’t Be Dumb skews slightly heavier topically and goes deeper than Rocky’s usual vainglorious works. The 35-year-old jack-of-all-that’s-fly chalks this up to him getting older (“I’m an OG now”) and wiser and the world being batshit loopy in the mean time.

“One of the first songs he recorded for the album is a grim, experimental track called ‘Shroom Cloud’ that deals with ‘current affairs and world wars and, you know, the world dying and whatnot.’”

A$AP Rocky himself described the album as “grim” and a mixture of “German expressionism [and] ghetto futurism.” He additionally revealed he performed the undertaking for legendary director Tim Burton, who he unsuccessfully tried to recruit to create the duvet artwork.

“I sat and I played the album for Tim Burton, and he was fucking with it heavy,” the daddy of two mentioned. “[H]e was rocking his head and he’s like, ‘Wow! I didn’t know you made that kind of music!’”

Rocky did, nonetheless, handle to safe musical contributions from composer Danny Elfman, together with on a tune produced by The Alchemist.

Different outstanding producers additionally anticipated to make the album embrace Metro Boomin, Tyler, The Creator, Pharrell, Madlib and Mike Dean.