A$AP Rocky season is in full swing. On Tuesday (July 25), the two-time Grammy-nominated rapper dropped off the accompanying visible for his newest single, “RIOT (Rowdy Pipe’n),” simply two days after his headlining Rolling Loud set in Miami.
The music video finds the Harlem rapper using extremely stylized takes on widespread riot aesthetics. The “F—n Issues” rapper leads a raucous crew of males clad in matching outfits that include blue denims, white t-shirts, and white ski masks. The boys march alongside a procession of tanks as they take over a faceless city panorama, pose subsequent to flashy vehicles, and lay in piles of money. The hanging music video additionally options outstanding placements of the American flag, beckoning new interpretations of the image and what it represents within the context of Rocky’s free-wheeling riot-inspired visible.
Maybe essentially the most memorable second of the “RIOT (Rowdy Pipe’n)” music video comes by the use of Rocky’s promotion of Rihanna’s Fenty Pores and skin line. Rocky flashes a tube bearing a Fenty Pores and skin label when he raps, “Flossy, shiny/ Nah, b—h, this ain’t lip gloss/ Luxe balm up in my palm/ New collab’ with my child mother.” The 2 musicians and vogue icons have been linked since 2013, and so they now share a child boy named RZA, with a second little one on the way in which.
The Pharrell Williams-produced “RIOT” is ready to seem on Rocky’s forthcoming fourth studio album. The album will function the follow-up to 2018’s Testing, which peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200. A$AP Rocky has earned three high 10 entries on each the Billboard Scorching 100 and the Billboard 200. His first two studio albums, 2013’s Lengthy.Reside.A$AP and 2015’s At.Lengthy.Final.A$AP, each topped the Billboard 200, whereas he reached a Scorching 100 profession excessive of No. 4 in 2018 with “No Restrict” (with G-Eazy & Cardi B).
Watch the video for “RIOT (Rowdy Pipe’n)” above.
