{"id":246186,"date":"2026-01-19T12:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/246186\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:12:09","slug":"watch-aap-rocky-perform-dont-be-dumb-songs-on-saturday-night-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/246186\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A$AP Rocky Perform Don\u2019t Be Dumb Songs on Saturday Night Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/30007-asap-rocky\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A$AP Rocky<\/a> was the musical guest on last night\u2019s (January 17) episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard. On the heels of releasing his new album <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/new-albums-julianna-barwick-mary-lattimore-asap-rocky\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Don\u2019t Be Dumb<\/a>, the rapper was joined onstage by <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/29695-thundercat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thundercat<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/24343-danny-elfman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Danny Elfman<\/a> for the single \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/winona-ryder-asap-rocky-punk-rocky-video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Punk Rocky<\/a>,\u201d and performed a medley of the record\u2019s title track and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-asap-rocky-fly-through-a-dystopian-riot-in-new-helicopters-video\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dhtwitter&amp;utm_content=null\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Helicopter$<\/a>.\u201d Watch Rocky on SNL below.<\/p>\n<p>After multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/asap-rocky-delays-album-shares-new-highjack-video-watch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">delays<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/asap-rocky-announces-release-date-for-new-album-dont-be-dumb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">false starts<\/a>, Don\u2019t Be Dumb finally arrived on Friday, January 16. Both \u201cPunk Rocky\u201d and \u201cHelicopter$\u201d received music videos in the lead-up, the former starring Wolfhard\u2019s Stranger Things co-star Winona Ryder. Tim Burton <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/heres-the-album-cover-tim-burton-made-for-asap-rocky\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">designed<\/a> the Don\u2019t Be Dumb cover art. A$AP Rocky is one of the headliners at the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/kali-uchis-lorde-and-geese-to-play-governors-ball-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Governor\u2019s Ball Music Festival<\/a> in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday Night Live\u2019s 51st season has featured performances from <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-bad-bunny-host-doja-cat-perform-aaahh-men-and-gorgeous-on-saturday-night-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Doja Cat<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/sabrina-carpenter-performs-manchild-and-nobodys-son-on-saturday-night-live-watch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sabrina Carpenter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/brandi-carlile\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandi Carlile<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/dijon-announced-as-saturday-night-live-musical-guest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Dean<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-dijon-perform-higher-and-baby-medley-on-saturday-night-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dijon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-lily-allen-perform-sleepwalking-bring-out-dakota-johnson-for-madeline-on-saturday-night-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lily Allen<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-ariana-grande-host-cher-perform-christmas-songs-on-saturday-night-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cher<\/a>, among others. <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-bad-bunny-host-doja-cat-perform-aaahh-men-and-gorgeous-on-saturday-night-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Bunny<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-ariana-grande-host-cher-perform-christmas-songs-on-saturday-night-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ariana Grande<\/a> have both hosted episodes. Geese are this week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/geese-to-perform-on-saturday-night-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">musical guests<\/a>, with Teyana Taylor set to host. Then, Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd and Cardi B will lead the January 31 episode of SNL.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about A$AP Rocky in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/lists-and-guides\/most-important-artists\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 200 Most Important Artists of Pitchfork\u2019s First 25 Years<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A$AP Rocky was the musical guest on last night\u2019s (January 17) episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409,411,2059],"class_list":{"0":"post-246186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246186","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=246186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}