\n\tA$AP Rocky\u00a0is giving back to his hometown in a major way.<\/p>\n
\n\tLord Flacko has\u00a0teamed up with Bilt<\/a>\u00a0for a \u201cRent Free\u201d campaign to celebrate the upcoming release of his fourth studio album,\u00a0DON\u2019T BE DUMB. In addition to releasing a self-designed limited-edition vinyl of his next LP, the rapper and loyalty and payments platform are paying it forward by covering rent for the tenants in his childhood building in January 2026.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cFor me, it\u2019s always been about your community and neighborhood. Harlem made me who I am, from uptown to downtown, and that connection to place is everything,\u201d said A$AP Rocky. \u201cWhen Bilt said they wanted to cover rent for everyone in the same building where I grew up, that hit different. That\u2019s not just business, that\u2019s understanding what community really means.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThis vinyl is my love letter to New York, and being able to give back to the exact place that raised me while helping people across the country with their rent is the kind of partnership that actually matters.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tThe exclusive vinyl is available to members through a special pre-order on Bilt\u2019s app and website. A$AP Rocky is also featured in a special edition of its monthly game show, \u201cRent Free,\u201d where Rocky offers nationwide Bilt Members the chance to win free rent payments of up to $2,500. The top 10 winners will also receive signed editions of the exclusive vinyl, while hundreds of additional members will earn bonus Bilt Points.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cFrom joining us at Bilt\u2019s launch to now, his roots in Harlem have always been inseparable from his success, and this\u00a0limited-edition vinyl<\/a>\u00a0is our way of honoring that connection,\u201d said Ankur Jain, Bilt\u2019s founder and CEO. \u201cIt\u2019s a celebration of the community that shaped one of hip-hop\u2019s most influential artists and a reminder of why giving back to your neighborhood matters.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAfter numerous delays,\u00a0DON\u2019T BE DUMB\u00a0drops Friday, January 16, 2026, and will be his first studio album in nearly eight years. Renowned filmmaker Tim Burton designs the cover art. Although an official tracklist has not been unveiled,\u00a0it\u2019s been reported<\/a>\u00a0that Rocky\u2019s 2022 track, \u201cRiot (Rowdy Pipe\u2019n),\u201d may be the album\u2019s first single.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A$AP Rocky\u00a0is giving back to his hometown in a major way. Lord Flacko has\u00a0teamed up with Bilt\u00a0for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[24474,64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-381802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-asap-rocky","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}