{"id":390743,"date":"2026-01-06T01:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/390743\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T01:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:44:08","slug":"aap-rocky-finally-releasing-dont-be-dumb-album-later-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/390743\/","title":{"rendered":"A$AP Rocky Finally Releasing ‘Don’t Be Dumb’ Album Later This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A$AP Rocky<\/a> is kicking off 2026 with a bang — with the pending release of his first album in eight years!!!<\/p>\n

On Monday, Rocky confirmed his long-awaited “Don’t Be Dumb” album would drop on Jan. 16 … the same album he was supposed to drop before 3 kids, 2 criminal trials, and 1 romance with Rihanna<\/a> entered the picture!!!<\/p>\n

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Remember our viral interview where he was giving us the “runaround” while discussing the album finishing touches? That was over 2 years ago!!!<\/p>\n

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For his first trick, the Harlem rapper co-directed “Punk Rocky” alongside filmmakers Folkert Verdoorn and Simon Becks … recruiting the talents of Winona Ryder<\/a>, Danny Elfman, Thundercat, and A$AP Nast to all star in the video!!!<\/p>\n

The video looks straight outta the Edward Scissorhands’ universe, and Rocky stars as himself and one of his alter-egos, a character named “GR1M” in the zany clip.<\/p>\n

In one scene, Rocky also captures himself shooting a gun in the middle of the street, but unlike his winning case<\/a> against ex-friend, A$AP Relli, he won’t be seeing a courtroom for pulling the trigger.<\/p>\n

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The video picks up where the “Tailor Swif” video left off visually and where his track “Sundress” left off sonically. If you’re sensing a theme, it’s because he got Tim Burton<\/a> to lend his artistic genius to the album cover artwork, which highlights all six of Rocky’s alter egos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A$AP Rocky is kicking off 2026 with a bang — with the pending release of his first album…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[879,49,48,361,75,12891,44,12892],"class_list":{"0":"post-390743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-hip-hop","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-tmz-hip-hop"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}