ASAP Rocky drops Dick Tracy-inspired video for brand new single “Babushka Boi”: Watch

To begin with, let’s get this cleared up: ASAP Rocky’s new monitor and video “Babushka Boi” have been meant to be launched earlier than the entire Sweden incident, so the usage of literal pig cops most likely isn’t a dig on the Swedish authorized system. They’re, nevertheless, a nod to Dick Tracy, as are the wild, cartoonish “Babushka Boi” visuals as an entire.

The Harlem rapper’s first post-freedom single, “Babushka Boi” straddles the road behind onerous and playful. All through, a light-weight digital notice plinks its means over dirty beats layered with what’s both a scream or a siren. The lyrics and title check with the scarves ASAP wore for a interval over the past 12 months to cover a scar on his face. Even a babushka round his head can’t cut back his road cred as he raps, “I want to dedicate to the scar on my face/ All the celebrities of the globe, the world is yours, Scarface.”

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Within the Nadia Lee Cohen-directed video, ASAP Rocky totally embraces the Babushka Boi persona because the chief of a gang of old-timey financial institution robbers. With exaggerated prosthetic options just like the cult basic Dick Tracy film, ASAP Ferg, ScHoolboy Q, ASAP Nast, and Kamil Abba be a part of their scar-faced chief as they take what they need and run from anthropomorphic pig police. All of it ends with an excellent quaint shootout that leaves ASAP and his crew with some contemporary sausage meat.

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“Babushka Boi” was slated to return earlier in the summertime, however was postponed following ASAP Rocky detainment in Sweden on assault fees. Thanks under no circumstances to the POTUS (regardless of his insistence in any other case), ASAP was finally launched from jail and located responsible. He was given a suspended sentence and ordered to pay a effective, however will serve no extra time behind bars. Which means he’s free to carry out on the trio of festivals left on his docket for the 12 months: Mexico’s Hellow Competition, Canada’s Purple Fest, and New York’s Rolling Loud. Discover tickets right here.