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A$AP ROCKY RAMPS UP 'DON'T BE DUMB' ALBUM ROLLOUT — BUT NOT WITH A NEW SINGLE

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A$AP Rocky has continued the rollout for his new album Don’t Be Dumb — but not in the way many fans were likely hoping.

The Harlem rapper has released a new clothing collection through his creative company, AWGE, which is adorned with the title of his upcoming project.

The drop includes bulletproof vest-style shirts, hoodies and tank tops featuring slogans like “American Sabotage”, “A$AP Rocky” and “Don’t Be Dumb.”

Also for sale are barrette packs, keychains, bandanas, trucker hats, beanies and a Band-Aid-inspired skate deck.

Rocky wore a number of the items at Coachella earlier this month when he made a guest appearance during Tyler, The Creator’s headlining set.

The collection is available to shop on AWGE’s website.

 

While not much is known about A$AP Rocky’s next album, he has been teasing it as some of his best and most experimental work yet.

Last year, he told DAZED magazine: “I’ve been really experimenting as usual and what I like about this is it feels like my best work yet. I want to leave expectations wide and open. I don’t want to tell you what to expect. I just want people to experience it how they do naturally.”

He has also dropped a number of songs over the last year — including “Same Problems?” and the Pharrell-produced “RIOT (Rowdy Pipe’n)” — but it remains to be seen if they will make the album.

Rocky also debuted unreleased material during his performance at Rolling Loud last year, one of which appeared to take a shot at Travis Scott.

The song, which is reportedly titled “Taylor Swift,” features the lyric: “First you stole my flow, so I stole your bitch/ Then you stole my style, I need at least like 10 percent/ All due disrespect, I hope you take offense.”

Pretty Flacko recently appeared on Future and Metro Boomin’s We Still Don’t Trust You where he contributed a guest verse to “Show of Hands.”

On the track, Rocky seemed to take a shot at Drake, who had dissed him and his girlfriend Rihanna on his album For All the Dogs.

“N-ggas swear they bitch the baddest, I just bagged the worst one/ N-ggas in they feelings over women, what, you hurt or somethin’?/ I smashed before you birthed son, Flacko hit it first, son,” he rapped.

He also appeared to throws shade at Drizzy’s aforementioned LP: “Still don’ trust you, it’s always us, never them/ Heard you dropped your latest shit/ Funny how it just came and went (Ha ha ha).”

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