Rap Song of the Week handpicks all the brand new hip-hop tracks it is advisable hear each Friday. Take a look at the total playlist here. As we speak, A$AP Rocky’s Swedish Home Mafia collab “Frankenstein” has lastly been formally launched.
At this level, it’s potential even A$AP Rocky doesn’t know if he’ll ever drop a follow-up to 2018’s Testing. Between older materials like “Lost and Found Freestyle 2019” with Tyler, the Creator and options on songs by $not, Nigo, and Fivio International, nonetheless, he’s stored followers fed this 12 months. This week brings one other new launch along with his long-awaited Swedish House Mafia collaboration “Frankenstein,” which seems on the dance supergroup’s new album Paradise Again.
As A$AP Mob diehards may keep in mind, “Frankenstein” has really been floating round because the late Virgil Abloh played it throughout his DJ set at Soften Competition 2019. On the time, Rocky was nonetheless in Swedish jail (coincidence?) on assault costs, and the style trailblazer devoted the observe to the Harlem rapper’s secure return residence.
The Gothic manufacturing of “Frankenstein” provides Rocky the chance to channel the evil physician. After shouting out his good buddy Tyler (“Igor by my facet/ That’s proper, I made you slime/ Tyler, create you guys”), Rocky disdainfully talks right down to rappers who don’t measure up. “That’s demise to everyone,” he raps. “In my class, no Columbine.” Maybe he may have left the varsity taking pictures reference out of the second line., although.
Persevering with the theme, the beat fades out throughout an interlude wherein Rocky makes use of one in all his distorted voices to name out the “ungrateful” rappers who don’t respect his contributions to hip-hop. “Don’t chunk the hand that feeds you,” he snarls, earlier than dashing up his movement to adapt to the beat. The second verse is definitely much less ferocious than the primary, although Fairly Flacko manages to drop in a Bobby Boucher reference for good measure.
Although Rocky isn’t scheduled to play Coachella this 12 months, there’s a very good likelihood he may seem on stage throughout Swedish Home Mafia’s co-headlining set with The Weeknd — similar to he did throughout Tame Impala’s set in 2019.
Attempt your hand at selecting up last-minute passes to Coachella here, and you’ll seize tickets for the EDM group’s reunion tour by way of Ticketmaster.
