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It looks like A$AP Rocky’s long-awaited album Don’t Be Dumb<\/em> is actually going to drop this Friday. It was supposed to come out back in August of 2024, when Rocky released the surprise Jessica Pratt collab “Highjack<\/a>,” but now it’s been so long that “Highjack” isn’t even on the album anymore. Tim Burton, who was “fucking with it heavy<\/a>” back then, did handle the cover art<\/a>, and Burton’s old pal Winona Ryder starred in the video for the new single “Punk Rocky<\/a>.” Ryder’s Stranger Things<\/em> cast-mate Finn Wolfhard is hosting SNL<\/em> this coming Saturday<\/a> with Rocky as musical guest. It’s all connected!<\/p>\n Today Rocky’s got another advance track for us, and unlike “Punk Rocky,” this one is content to be a rap song. Rocky wrote “Helicopter$” with Kelvin Krash, and the two of them produced it with Soufien Rhouat, the artist formerly known as Soufien 3000. It’s got the kind of murky, dark-tinted beat Rocky has always gravitated toward, with bonging live bass notes and eerie layers of keyboards. <\/p>\n It sounds intentionally musty as if cooked up in a dungeon (not the<\/em> Dungeon), which pairs well with director Dan Streit’s heavily filtered lo-fi music video. The clip features the same helicopter Rocky played new music from at Rolling Loud<\/a>, though this time it might be CGI. The Playstation-referencing packshot presumably figures into the whole aesthetic. Watch below.<\/p>\n