A$AP Rocky has ramped up his Don’t Be Dumb rollout with the release of a new single and video, “Punk Rocky.”
Produced by Ging, Zach Fogarty, Cristoforo Donadi and Rocky himself, the track finds Pretty Flacko flexing his musical range and showcasing his smooth singing voice over melodic rock production.
“I thought I fell in love, I thought she felt it too / I thought we was in love, she just another fluke / I thought you was the one, I guess you just the two / You want the last laugh, look, now the joke’s on you,” laments Rocky, whose real-life relationship with Rihanna is anything but on the rocks.
The accompanying video, co-starring Winona Ryder, strengthens Rocky’s reputation as one of hip-hop’s best visual artists. With Dutch directors Simon Beck and Folkert Verdoorn at the helm, the surreal clip features a neighborhood brawl, a stint in jail and a rooftop jam session as the Harlem rapper moves to the suburbs.
While one jacked-up neighbor makes it his mission to snuff out the fun, Winona Ryder becomes A$AP Rocky’s unlikely ally, even bailing him and his crew out of jail. The rollercoaster ride ends in an explosive shootout and ejector seat-triggered car crash.
“Punk Rocky” is set to appear on A$AP Rocky’s long-awaited fourth album Don’t Be Dumb, which will finally arrive on January 16.
According to a vinyl listing of the album, “the 15-track [project] moves through genres the way you’d move through a city — jazz, hip hop, metal, indie, R&B — each track capturing a different block, mood, or moment. It’s Rocky in full range.”
A number of high-profile names have been linked to the album, from Metro Boomin and Madlib to Playboi Carti and Westside Gunn. But one of the most fascinating contributors is Tim Burton, the legendary filmmaker behind Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice and the late ’80s/early ’90s Batman movies.
Burton’s name appears on the official cover for Don’t Be Dumb while Rocky recently thanked the director for “helping me make this movie,” suggesting an accompanying film is in the works.
“I sat and I played the album for Tim Burton, and he was fucking with it heavy … He was rocking his head and was like, ‘Wow! I didn’t know you made that kind of music!’” the rapper told Billboard in 2024.
He explained his admiration for Burton in a sit-down with Vanity Fair last year, saying: “I love Tim Burton, man. I’ve been inspired by him [since] a child. I think what he does with claymation and how he transcended into live-action movies, the parallels between them and [how] he seamlessly included it from matte painting to German Expressionism. I think he’s a fucking genius.”
A$AP Rocky and Winona Ryder in a punk rock crime spree? Sure, why not. The only thing more chaotic than this video is my therapist’s take on my life. Rockin’ the suburbs like he’s got a death wish and a cameo from Tim Burton? Bro, you’re not making an album, you’re making a Netflix series with zero plot. But hey, if you’re rich and insane, go ahead, I’ll be here judging you from my couch with a bag of chips and zero respect.
You got something negative to say about every article. Don’t you have anything better to do?
This is one of the worst songs ive ever heard in my life.
can’t complain the guy bagged rihanna
Why do you care who other men that you don’t know, have sex with? Weirdo
I want to get bagged by ASAP Rocky. Teabagged I mean.
Never got the appeal of her.
DaBaby has an album out this month so far sounds good
Also Iggy and before that Chanel Iman and Kendall Jenner. Iggy I remember has his name tatted on her then crossed out and Swaggy P under that now I think that is crossed out too.
I knew it was going to be bad. Who is this song for? Black people aren’t listening to this shit and white people aren’t going to listen to this shit. Don’t be dumb, release date, never.
No whites will listen the suburb blacks and whites like this and Tyler also Kendrick
holy shit didn’t asap rocky say this was his most personal album or some shit and clams casino on the track?? Its just a comedy you don’t take it so seriously but thats the thing from this brother wtf
Nah, screw all the hate. Song is enjoyable, video is fun, chaos is channeled. Always appreciate Rocky’s ability to be artistic and stretch outside the box- and still kill it.
Looking forward to the album
I agree.
Love his songs..love his music.. This is great. I also love him ,and Rianna
No thanks but aftet hearing Kanye say Carti is Asap and him fused together I see it now
This is a bit worrying as a lead single.
RIP Rap music. The moment all these rappers started trying to be “artists” was the death of the genre. No “artists” was the reason I gravitated to rap music in the 1990s. Now the saturation of “artists” is making me listen to music less and less. Can we just go back to the days where being a good MC was what mattered ? No singing, no cross-genres, no stupid hairdos, no face tatts, no piercings, just lyrics and beats….
🤣🤣🤣🤣 what? Bro boomer calm down. The 90’s most those guys were fake and/or gay like Tupac. NBA YoungBoy better, Lil Durk better, Ye better, Kay Flock better, King Von, Lil Wayne, Kodak, Juelz, Jim Jones, Yungeen Ace, Chief Keef, Waka Flocka, Pop Smoke, Fivio, Lil Baby, Future, Carti, Uzi, all better.
YoungBoy dropped!! Album Friday!!!
Before the awful fake 90s era you worship so much not saying its all bad but before it was about vibes and we are back to that and its better. Lyrical rap seems empty to many and hipstery. Lyrical rap can and should be a vibe as well but when you say it, it is just cringe. Also drill rap was hugely influenced by the 90s difference is the drill rappers are actually doing what they say unlike Snoop, Dre, and Pac.
Funny everyone wants Diddy in jail over nothing but Dre actually did those things and is not in jail. Dre and Cube had Eazy E set up to further their careers even Suge knows it. The movie shows their view of Eazy and the family of Eazy does not like them.
Blame gay Tupac then. He was an actor and theater kid pretending to be a thug.
He dissed people went to jail lived by the gun wtf fake thug??
Went to jail for SA. He did not shoot anyone the stories from Eazy E friends exposed that he was a dork also numerous people saw him get beat up by Michael Jackson. Fake thug
Michael Jai White confirms it and Queen Latifah confirms the gay stuff
Believe all women but not when its garbage rappers from the 90s like Eminem, Dre, and Tupac.
What gun? Bro was raised by a white woman and started as an actor not a rapper also theater kid graduated from college. He went to jail for sexual assault. Lived by the gun yeah no that whole west coast group was fake and gay Snoop, Dre, and him. Eazy E was the only real gang member rapper.
We just going to ignore he started as an actor and pretended to be from the west coast when he was raised in Baltimore spent a year in Cali then moved back? The amount of lies you people tell yourself to defend a overrated rapper who ruined black people and profited off it.
Dissing people do not make you hood example being Drake funny just like Tupac pretended to be hood but was a actor turned rapper pretending to be hood. Tupac went to college to be a actor and was a actor before being a rapper he had white friends he aint live by no gun just played pretend like all 90’s rappers. Well Biggie was a dealer and Big L was about that life. Eazy E only west coast guy who was about that life thats why he got respect in the east all the stories on him are about how he was him! Not Tupac the gay dork
Diddy did not kill Tupac. Quincy Jones did. Its clear Kidada does not talk about him, Rashida seems to fantasize about him my guess he was put with Kidada to avoid that drama with Rashida. Then when Jada was causing problems Quincy pawned her to his artist Will Smith to keep her quiet. Then got rid of Pac. Kidada was used. She seemed to really like LL who would have knocked out Pac
Gun? According to people there at the time he was a dork who pretended guy was a actor pretending and it got him killed. He couldn’t even fight got beaten by Michael Jackson who then did a song with Biggie to spite him. But revisionists ignore that trying to slander Big instead. Pac would not survive today King Von and the Chiraq kids would have taken turns smacking him then the NYC drill kids would stomp him and the south boys would run him over use him for burnouts
Actor turned rapper? Sounds like a plant. Drake did the same thing. Isn’t that funny. Kenny was a theater kid too and pushes gay California rap too
What? Bro what is drill music then and trap? You people just want cringe back. No the drill and trap sound are superior when Lex Luger was making beats then Young Chop that was the era. Current sound is vibes not cringe like Kendrick. Look Uzi is saving rap right now honestly we need him and Wayne collabing with Ye.
Those rappers still exist you fakes just don’t listen to them LL made a album a year or so ago, Nas has music on the way, Rakim is still making music, go listen to them heck even Wu Tang but you people never listen to it instead attack the younger gen or pretend “rap is dead” no it needs people to carry it Ye is that guy and before him Diddy serious his business deals and fashion connects put on R&B and Hip Hop
Yeah no. Sound matters and vibes. No lyrical miracle garbage just hollow with no soul like Eminem. Ye, Uzi, Wayne, Carti, Travis, YoungBoy, Durk, Lex Luger, Young Chop, Sosa, Don Toliver, Future, Lil Baby, Southside, TM88, Sonny Digital, Mike Will Made It, Harry Fraud, Yungeen Ace, Kodak, Kay Flock, Fivio Foriegn, Lil Tjay, all got it. Even the young ones got some sound Tecca sounds ok, K3 got something, 1900Rugrat is great.
Big X? Babytron? Mexican OT? Token? Dax? Tom MacDonald? Fabolous? Nas? Take your pick there are a ton they are not popular or viewed as cringe or just old
Fab and Nas still legends. Big X is ok.
Steve bro you need to stop you just too old man. You old people out of touch with everything. Milennials ruined everything movies, TV, gaming, cartoons, and rap. Gen Z is saving it.
You sound dumb just a boomer wanting things their way. You want no variety just everything to be the same and controlled by the media. No back then you had artists too. Your moronic label is just stupid.
Shut up YoungBoy Album friday!!!
Tupac was a college art school kid who became a rapper in the 90’s with tattoos and piercings also his look was being bald and a actor pretending given he was from the east coast pretending to be from the west and a gangster
Yup ignore the plant. He was a plant think about it actor turned rapper? Reminds me of Drake
Only west coast gangster was Eazy E not zestpac and dr gay. West coast is all fake and stuck in a weird place never came back. Rappers from there but mostly fake look at YG and Nippsey.
Music for guys who wear skirts and nail polish. New York is finished. j
No NYC is fine. Asap has admitted his music is morw popular in Houston he caught on there not in NYC. NYC has Max B and French doing really well with their new songs. Fivio, TJay, honestly they need Trump to pardon Kay Flock and they got something again. Sheff G and Sleepy Hallow. Kendrick lives in NYC but is scared to respond to Joey. Then theres Tecca and Cash. Santana should honestly do something he and Wayne should finally release their old project.
Nicki too she got a album on the way.
No worse thing in NY is Cardi B and the yuppies we need to deport them to China
Awful mayor and governor
Sorry no. In other news Max B and French’s collabs seem to be doing well and Uzi came close to breaking into billboard top 20.
go back to harlem with this clowning shit you a joke homey
He from Harlem? He messes with Tyler so I mean I forgot. You guys like Tyler but not this?
No i don’t listen to tyler the creator i have listened to odd future and good lord their shit is terrible