{"id":2232767,"date":"2026-01-13T10:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2232767"},"modified":"2026-01-13T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:24:23","slug":"aap-rocky-drops-helicopter-video-ahead-of-dont-be-dumb-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/aap-rocky-drops-helicopter-video-ahead-of-dont-be-dumb-release\/","title":{"rendered":"A$AP Rocky Drops &#8216;Helicopter&#8217; Video Ahead of &#8216;Don&#8217;t Be Dumb&#8217; Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tA$AP Rocky\u2019s fever dream continues. On Monday, the artist unleashed new track \u201cHelicopter\u201d alongside a chaotic <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/video\/\" id=\"auto-tag_video\" data-tag=\"video\">video<\/a> featuring a rooftop rager, police clashes, and turbulent ending. The song comes ahead of his new album,<em> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/asap-rockys-album-dont-be-dumb-what-we-know-1235385029\/\">Don\u2019t Be Dumb<\/a><\/em>, arriving Friday, Jan. 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe animated video echoes the classic aesthetics of <em>Grand Theft Auto<\/em>, blending saturated colors and sweeping cityscapes with satirical, outlandish scenarios. Rocky promoted the song on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTVwlTqCV0g\/?img_index=1\">Instagram<\/a> with a Playstation-inspired cover and in another <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTaxe8sDuJI\/\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>, insisted, \u201cDONTBEDUMB CHANGING THE GAME !!! A$VP. THIS VIDEO IS NOT Ai GENERATED!\u201d In the visual, a cartoon Rocky rides around in a hot pink mini \u201cpussy whip\u201d with matching hair rollers (which he first debuted during his summer tour) and hijacks a helicopter \u2014 at one point dangling from it \u2014 while rapping the bass-heavy chorus.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A$AP ROCKY - HELICOPTER (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g1-46Nu3HxQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLast week, Rocky delighted fans with the first official musical offering from his upcoming album, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/asap-rocky-winona-ryder-punk-rocky-video-1235494438\/\">Punk Rocky<\/a>,\u201d which also released with an accompanying video with appearances from\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/winona-ryder\/\">Winona Ryder<\/a>, Thundercat, and Danny Elfman. Like \u201cHelicopter,\u201d the visual followed Rocky through a surreal journey involving his friends, bumbling police, and an extreme conclusion.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe soon-to-be-released album is shaping up to be one of Rocky\u2019s most creative yet. For the long-awaited project, Rocky collaborated with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/tim-burton\/\">Tim Burton<\/a>, who designed parts of the LP\u2019s artwork and a subsequent film that\u2019s set to accompany the record, and Elman, who scored many of the tracks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn an interview with\u00a0<em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/asap-rocky-highest-2-lowest-rihanna-assault-trial-1236386576\/\">Variety<\/a><\/em>, Rocky teased the album\u2019s subject matter and a bit of insecurity: \u201cThis fucking album, it represents who I am right now. It\u2019s just I hope that it\u2019s digestible,\u201d he says. Elsewhere, he added, \u201cIt\u2019s odd because as I get older, I\u2019m more conscious about how I view myself. Describing my life sounds very braggadocious, and I want to figure out how to say it to where it feels more humble, relatable, and sincere, as opposed to just shitting on the next person or making the next person feel down, or just evoking negative shit out of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A$AP Rocky\u2019s fever dream continues. On Monday, the artist unleashed new track \u201cHelicopter\u201d alongside a chaotic video featuring a rooftop rager, police clashes, and turbulent ending. The song comes ahead of his new album, Don\u2019t Be Dumb, arriving Friday, Jan. 16. The animated video echoes the classic aesthetics of Grand Theft Auto, blending saturated colors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2232768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[39288,21942],"class_list":["post-2232767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-asap-rocky","tag-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AAP-Rocky-Drops-Helicopter-Video-Ahead-of-Dont-Be-Dumb.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2232767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2232769,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232767\/revisions\/2232769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2232768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2232767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2232767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2232767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}