{"id":243370,"date":"2026-01-17T16:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T16:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/243370\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T16:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T16:53:07","slug":"morrissey-dropped-from-aap-rockys-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/243370\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrissey dropped from A$AP Rocky’s new album"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morrissey<\/a> appears to have been dropped from A$AP Rocky<\/a>\u2018s new album \u2018Don\u2019t Be Dumb\u2019.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0NME\u2019s most anticipated album releases of 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Rocky\u2019s new album was shared yesterday (January 16), and some fans had been expecting a feature from Morrissey after\u00a0the rapper expressed his\u00a0desire to \u201cfuck with\u201d<\/a> The Smiths<\/a> frontman back in 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cI might have to fuck with Morrissey on some Smiths shit,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cMake some emo, real, retro-infusion, motherfuckin\u2019 2018 shit, man.\u201d\u00a0Then, in 2021, he said that Morrissey had been writing, producing and contributing vocals to his new record<\/a>, which was then titled \u2018All Smiles\u2019, but later renamed to \u2018Don\u2019t Be Dumb\u2019.<\/p>\n

Rocky further teased the collaboration in 2024, saying Morrissey features on a track called \u2018Hood Happy\u2019, which was never released<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, when \u2018Don\u2019t Be Dumb\u2019 was finally shared yesterday, Morrissey was not among the many guests featured.<\/p>\n

The album also featured a presumed\u00a0Drake<\/a> diss track, called \u2018Stole Ya Flow\u2019, which also references Rocky\u2019s partner, Rihanna<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018Don\u2019t Be Dumb\u2019 is Rocky\u2019s first album in almost eight years \u2013\u00a0his last LP, \u2018Testing<\/a>\u2019 came out in May 2018. He first announced the album in June 2024 with the release date scheduled for August, but it was then subjected to a number of delays. In February 2025, he said he was \u201cin the mixing and mastering realm of it,\u201d and in December, he shared the fresh January release date.<\/p>\n

NME\u00a0listed \u2018Don\u2019t Be Dumb\u2019 as one of the\u00a0most anticipated album releases of 2026<\/a>, writing: \u201cAfter a years-long legal battle,\u00a0A$AP Rocky was found not guilty last February for his role in a 2021 shooting incident<\/a>. His fourth album \u2018Don\u2019t Be Dumb\u2019 \u2013 preceded by singles such as \u2018Pray4DaGang\u2019, \u2018Ruby Rosary\u2019 and \u2018Tailor Swif\u2019 and coming nearly eight years after his last album, \u2018Testing\u2019 \u2013 then feels like the return of a prodigal son.\u201d<\/p>\n

In November, meanwhile, Rocky was\u00a0officially unveiled as a new brand ambassador for Chanel<\/a>. The rapper said of the French fashion house\u2019s artistic director, Matthieu Blazy, \u201cHis designs feel both sensitive and strong, they\u2019re grounded in reality but at the same time, always invite one to wonder. I\u2019m so excited to see him at Chanel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two months before, he\u00a0welcomed his third child with Rihanna<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Rocki Irish Mayers was born on September 13. The \u2018Umbrella\u2019 star had\u00a0revealed her pregnancy while making a fashionably late entrance at the Met Gala in May<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He was also in two movies last year, starring in indie hit\u00a0If I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You\u00a0alongside Rose Byrne and Conan O\u2019Brien, as well as\u00a0Spike Lee<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0Highest 2 Lowest<\/a>, opposite\u00a0Denzel Washington<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morrissey appears to have been dropped from A$AP Rocky\u2018s new album \u2018Don\u2019t Be Dumb\u2019. READ MORE:\u00a0NME\u2019s most anticipated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,744,85,46,409,735],"class_list":{"0":"post-243370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-hip-hop","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-rap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}