{"id":218741,"date":"2026-01-06T00:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/218741\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T00:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T00:47:08","slug":"aap-rocky-drops-psychedelic-new-song-punk-rocky-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/218741\/","title":{"rendered":"A$AP Rocky Drops Psychedelic New Song &#8220;Punk Rocky&#8221;: Stream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/asap-rocky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">A$AP Rocky<\/a> has dropped \u201cPunk Rocky,\u201d the first single from his much-anticipated new album,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2024\/06\/asap-rocky-dont-be-dumb-release-date\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Don\u2019t Be Dumb<\/a>, out January 16th via A$AP Worldwide\/RCA Records. Stream it below.<\/p>\n<p>Co-written by Rocky with Cristoforo Donadi (aka Ghost), Zach Fogarty, and Ging (fka Frank Dukes), the track features a psych-rock-inspired sound, setting the tone for the direction of his upcoming album.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YpYlHQ\" class=\"button button-ticket\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Buy Don&#8217;t Be Dumb on Vinyl\/CD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On \u201cPunk Rocky,\u201d the Harlem rapper channels heartbreak with lyrics like, \u201cShe ain\u2019t gon\u2019 be in my life no more\/ Got me crying in the microphone\/ Let me shout on the megaphone\/ That ho ain\u2019t my type no more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>Presumably, he isn\u2019t alluding to his relationship with Rihanna, but who knows?<\/p>\n<p>The accompanying music video was co-directed by Rocky with Folkert Verdoorn and Simon Becks, and stars Winona Ryder, Danny Elfman, Thundercat, and A$AP Nast. According to a press release, it portrays five out of six of Rocky\u2019s\u00a0Don\u2019t Be Dumb\u00a0alter egos, with Rocky himself playing\u00a0GR1M, Tommy Revenge as RUGAHAND, Thoto as BABUSHKA BOI, the Williams twins as SHIRTHEAD, and DUMMY.<\/p>\n<p>Rocky\u2019s last album,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2018\/06\/album-review-aap-rocky-testing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TESTING<\/a>, was released in 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YpYlHQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Pre-orders<\/a> for Don\u2019t Be Dumb are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A$AP Rocky has dropped \u201cPunk Rocky,\u201d the first single from his much-anticipated new album,\u00a0Don\u2019t Be Dumb, out January&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-218741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}