Don't Be Dumb

Released January 16, 2026 via AWGE / A$AP Worldwide / RCA Records, Don't Be Dumb is A$AP Rocky's fourth studio album and his first full-length project since Testing in 2018 -- an eight-year gap during which Rocky faced a high-profile felony trial, became a father, starred in a Spike Lee film, and rebuilt his creative universe from the ground up.

The album is built around a concept of multiple alter egos -- GR1M, Mr. Mayers, Rugahand, Babushka Boi, Dummy, and Shirthead -- each visualized by director Tim Burton, who designed the album's cover art and entered into a full creative collaboration with Rocky. The two reportedly composed music by watching old films on mute and drawing on the aesthetic Rocky calls "ghetto expressionism," a fusion of German Expressionist visual language with Harlem futurism.

Producers on the album include Frank Dukes, Danny Elfman, Thundercat, and others across a sprawling 23-track runtime. Critics noted the album's genre-spanning ambition -- moving through psychedelic rock, jazz, hard hip-hop, R&B, and electronic music -- while acknowledging that its ambition sometimes outpaced its cohesion. Rolling Stone called it "overstuffed" but "a lot of fun." It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, Rocky's first chart-topper in over a decade, and earned a Metacritic score of 71/100 based on critical consensus that praised Rocky's curatorial instincts and star power even as it found the album occasionally uneven.