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A$AP Rocky attends the Los Angeles particular screening of ‘Highest 2 Lowest’
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Key Takeaways:
- A$AP Rocky’s latest songs, “Trunks” and “Each Eyes Closed,” add emotional and narrative depth to the ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ soundtrack.
- The tracks replicate A$AP Rocky’s character, Yung Felon, mixing up-tempo power with introspective bars.
- The rapper continues to steadiness music, performing and fatherhood whereas teasing his long-awaited album ‘Don’t Be Dumb.’
A$AP Rocky’s performing profession is complementing his music profession. The Harlem rapper has two songs on the soundtrack of the Spike Lee-directed Highest 2 Lowest, through which he co-stars with Denzel Washington.
Fairly Flacko cooked up “Trunks” and “Each Eyes Closed” for the brand new movie, which sees him play a kidnapper and rapper named Yung Felon. Count on the up-tempo “Trunks” to get some further consideration attributable to a line that may be a jab at friend-turned-foe Drake. “Cookie cutter n**gasoline, soda pop, yeah, they Canada Dry,” A$AP Rocky spits on the primary verse.
Alternatively, “Each Eyes Closed” is extra laid again. The TESTING creator will get lyrically introspective over the file’s drowsy, but participating groove. He raps, “Seen some s**t that made me cry, child die from genocide / Center finger to the person, f**okay the klan, I do know you hate my sort / God, inform me why my sort gotta undergo, bro, why?” British music producer and frequent collaborator Kelvin Krash produced each tracks.
As for his subsequent solo studio album, A$AP Rocky has been teasing Don’t Be Dumb for years. Simply final month he launched “pray4dagang” with KayCyy. Final 12 months, he dropped singles “HIGHJACK,” “Tailor Swif,” which got here with a bugged-out video, and “Ruby Rosary,” that includes J. Cole. Nonetheless, there’s nonetheless no confirmed launch date for the mission.
Nonetheless, music and performing haven’t been the one issues holding the “Peso” rapper busy. He fathers two kids with longtime girlfriend Rihanna and now has a 3rd child on the best way. Now that he has new obligations, followers can anticipate a minimum of a slight shift in his sound and content material. “The man I’m now shouldn’t be the man I got here [into] this enterprise as. [I’m] not the identical child. Everyone knows I’m a father now,” he instructed Apple Music in July.
Highest 2 Lowest is in theaters Friday (Aug. 15).