ASAP Rocky's New Album Could Arrive Sometime This Month

BYLavender AlexandriaUpdated on August 11, 20232.5K Views

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 15: A$AP Rocky attends The 2023 Harlem Honors Awards on July 15, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Johnny Nunez/WireImage)

Rocky has fans buzzing with his latest album tease.

Fans have been dying for a new project from ASAP Rocky. The rapper hasn't dropped a new studio album since TESTING in 2018, but that drought could end soon. He's released a pair of new songs this year and made quite a splash during her performance at Rolling Loud Festival in Miami a few weeks ago. Now he's dropped a tweet that has fans in a frenzy. The actual text of the tweet is pretty simple saying simply "AWGEST." But those six letters have quite a deep implication. AWGE is Rocky's creative agency which he combined with August, implying something big could be coming this month.

Fans in the comments underneath the tweet took the theory and ran with it. "awgest=august so carti also part of awge that means carti and rocky dropping august," says one of the top comments. "SO ALBUM THIS MONTH?!?" asks a fan. One of the top comments seems to say what everyone is thinking. "so when’s the album bro." ASAP Rocky has been teasing a new album called Don't Be Dumb for a while. Now the album could potentially arrive just a few weeks after Utopia the highly anticipated new project from Travis Scott. During his show at Rolling Loud Rocky played some new music that fans interpreted as a Travis Scott diss.

ASAP Rocky's Latest Tease

Travis Scott wasn't the only one that ASAP Rocky reportedly took shots at during Rolling Loud. He also called out controversial figures Ian Connor and ASAP Bari, which many fans supported. But after the show, Ian Connor shared some DMs with the rapper where he could be seen walking back on his comments.

Late last month, ASAP Rocky dropped his new song "RIOT (Rowdy Pipe'N)." It was his second new song of the year following "Same Problems?" which came out in January. The new song also got a new militant music video with Rocky sporting one of his most attention-grabbing pieces of jewelry to date. What do you think of ASAP Rocky continuing to tease the release of his new album? Let us know in the comment section below.

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Lavender Alexandria is a music and culture journalist based in Los Angeles, California. She’s covered dozens of musical genres and styles from the most mainstream to the most experimental and underground on her blog and accompanying YouTube channel that looks at music, pop culture, and Billboard charts since 2017: Lav’s Music Corner. Lavender has produced editorial and listicle content both in written and video form over the past far years and has also interviewed up-and-coming artists like Censored Dialogue. Her experiences covering culture have taken her from Hyperpop parties in LA to underground rap shows in Atlanta, to DIY punk shows in Charlotte. Lavender has also written for iHeartRadio, covering some of the biggest artists in Hip Hop such as Ice Spice, Drake, Doja Cat and Cardi B. She also has bylines with ScreenRant and continues to write for Ringtone magazine. Lavender is a lifelong Charlotte Hornets fan and her favorite rap artists include Clipping, Little Simz, Earl Sweatshirt, and Kendrick Lamar.