American rapper A$AP Rocky has released a new song titled “Highjack,” which features Los Angeles-based folk-pop singer Jessica Pratt. The song was produced by Greg Kirsten, Hitkid, Jordan Patrick, and Zach Fogarty, and features backing vocals from Creed B. Goode and Jon Batiste. The song will appear on the rapper’s upcoming album, do not be stupid.
In an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, A$AP Rocky talked about working with Pratt and Batiste on the song. “I love alternative music, I love different sounds and stuff like that,” the rapper told Lowe. [Pratt] “It gave me kind of that Portishead-meets-Steve Nicks vibe a little bit. Right. So I always approached it as an artist, so I thought it was important to make it, and Jon Batiste on this, and make it feel spiritual to bring it home at the end.”
The rapper explained the song's theme, “I feel like the truth has come back, like this shit is waiting to be taken over. It's a kidnapping. Not only that, but we're bringing a whole new aesthetic to everything, especially with German Expressionism and everything about the bleak future of the ghetto. So that's the sound and all that. It's the sound of the music.”
“I've been working on this stuff, this material for a while now, and I've been doing some tweaks and fixes and stuff. So that was one of the things we decided to do, that was in the summer and here we are. We shot a visual, yeah, that's part of the new saga,” he added.
A$AP Rocky was joking do not be stupiddue out August 30, for a few months. He premiered several untitled tracks from the album during Paris Fashion Week, when he presented his first AWGE collection, American Sabotage. Last year, he told stunned He said he felt the new music was his “best work yet.” He added, “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 as they naturally do.”
Pratt released her latest album, here in the stadiumIn May, this was Pratt's fourth album, after a five-year hiatus following his last album in 2019. Signs of calm“I never wanted it to take that long,” she said of the wait. “I'm just a really perfectionist. I was just trying to get the right feeling, and it takes a long time to do that.”
