{"id":2239837,"date":"2026-01-18T17:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2239837"},"modified":"2026-01-18T17:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T17:29:18","slug":"watch-aap-rocky-perform-punk-rocky-helicopter-from-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/watch-aap-rocky-perform-punk-rocky-helicopter-from-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A$AP Rocky Perform &#8216;Punk Rocky,&#8217; &#8216;Helicopter&#8217; from New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The Harlem-born rapper also performs the title track off of his new album, <em>Don&#8217;t Be Dumb<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/aap-rocky\/\" id=\"auto-tag_aap-rocky\" data-tag=\"aap-rocky\">A$AP Rocky<\/a> debuted on <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\">Saturday Night Live<\/a><\/em> with three songs from his new album, <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/asap-rocky-dont-be-dumb-album-best-songs-1235501094\/\">Don\u2019t Be Dumb<\/a><\/em>, which dropped Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/asap-rocky-pay-rent-tenants-childhood-harlem-building-1235492490\/\">Harlem-born<\/a> rapper, who held an album <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/asap-rocky-dont-be-dumb-album-release-party-1235500976\/\">release party<\/a> not far from the <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/snl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_snl\" data-tag=\"snl\">SNL<\/a><\/em> studio late Thursday night, opened with lead single <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/asap-rocky-winona-ryder-punk-rocky-video-1235494438\/\">\u201cPunk Rocky.\u201d<\/a><\/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: PUNK ROCKY (Live) - SNL\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OEW3JR-nv3I?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\t<em>Don\u2019t Be Dumb<\/em> is Rocky\u2019s fourth studio album and first since 2018\u2019s <em>Testing<\/em>. The 37-year-old isn\u2019t concerned about the frequency of his output, but taking the time to craft a legacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t do all these different endeavours just because I got to be the first at the top of the mountain and plant the flag. Because it\u2019s not really about who did it first. It\u2019s about who did it the best,\u201d he <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theperfectmagazine.com\/features\/perfect\/asap-rocky\/perfect-blckg-f6lhj-s9akw-wyjtk-tmckh-3j5mf-grtfd-cm2j6-lycre-jznxn-e7mkk-maewd-ntnnh-znr5t-br28x\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> Perfect Magazine last fall. \u201cI don\u2019t do things to just try and stay relevant, or keep my name in the conversation. I try to do natural things, creative, ambitious things that really satisfy me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tRocky\u2019s second performance was a medley of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/asap-rocky-helicopter-video-dont-be-dumb-album-1235498620\/\">\u201cHelicopter\u201d<\/a> and the album\u2019s title track.<\/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<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: DON&#039;T BE DUMB\/HELICOPTER (Live) - SNL\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ODASCM-HSo8?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\tThe 15-track album features collaborations with nearly as many artists; the list includes Will.i.am, Doechii, Gorillaz, Jon Batiste and Tyler, the Creator. Filmmaker Tim Burton created the album\u2019s cover art, which shows Rocky\u2019s six personas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThere\u2019s no word yet from Rocky on a tour in support of his latest album. His next scheduled show is headlining the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/governors-ball-2026-lineup-1235494536\/\">Governors Ball<\/a> in Queens, New York in June.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\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>The Harlem-born rapper also performs the title track off of his new album, Don&#8217;t Be Dumb A$AP Rocky debuted on Saturday Night Live with three songs from his new album, Don\u2019t Be Dumb, which dropped Friday. The Harlem-born rapper, who held an album release party not far from the SNL studio late Thursday night, opened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2239838,"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":[308494,39288,377908,21890,22335],"class_list":["post-2239837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-aap-rocky","tag-asap-rocky","tag-late-night-tv","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-snl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Watch-AAP-Rocky-Perform-Punk-Rocky-Helicopter-from-New-Album.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239837","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=2239837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2239841,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239837\/revisions\/2239841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2239838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}