Don’t Be Dumb is the title of A$AP Rocky’s fourth studio album arriving Friday (Jan. 16), but it’s also a phrase he may have been uttering to Reddit moderators after pulling the plug on his AMA session on Monday (Jan. 12).
Rocky was slated to host an AMA, but ended up bailing on the Q&A thread as he appeared to take issue with moderators. “YALL MODS ARE CLOWNS , DONTBEDUMB JAN 16,” he wrote to the r/asaprocky subreddit with the title “WAS GON DO AMA , F-K IT NOW!” before signing off.
While fans were disappointed, they seemed to agree with Rocky’s decision. “Cant even be mad fair enough,” one person wrote. Another added, “Reddit mods being reddit mods.”
One of the subreddit’s mods admitted they made a mistake in trying to give him access. “I’m sorry Mr Rocky. We sent you a mod invite so this doesn’t happen again. S–t got caught in the reddit spam filter even tho we approved your account,” the moderator wrote. “Everyone feel free to roast us in the comments, we goofed up, nobody is gonna get banned.”
It remains to be seen if Rocky will give it another shot. Billboard has reached out to the mods for comment.
The Harlem rapper continued the Don’t Be Dumb rollout on Monday with the arrival of his “Helicopter$” single. He made sure to repeat multiple times that the accompanying visual to the track was not AI-generated. “THIS VIDEO IS NOT Ai GENERATED! THIS VIDEO IS NOT Ai GENERATED! JUST GENERATIONAL,” he wrote to X.
Rocky kicked off the DBD rollout with “Punk Rocky” earlier in January, and the anticipated album is set to arrive on Friday.
The Mob frontman is also slated to serve as the next installment of Amazon Music’s Songline series with an episode premiering on Yams Day (Jan. 18), which honors the late A$AP Mob cofounder who passed away in 2015.
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