We’ve been anticipating A$AP Rocky‘s first album in six years, Don’t Be Dumb, which arrives later this month. He’s shared his first track since formally announcing it, “Highjack,” which features Jessica Pratt. Those are two names we didn’t necessarily expect to see paired together, but it’s much less surprising given Jessica Pratt’s increased fame in recent  years due to Troye Sivan sampling her song “Back, Baby” on his song “Can’t Go Back, Baby,” and Rocky recently told Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, “I just love alternative. I love just different sounds and whatnot. [Pratt] kind of gave me this kind of Portishead meets Stevie Nicks vibe a little bit. Right. So I always fucked with her as a artist, and so I figured it was necessary to get her, Jon Batiste on this one and kind of make it feel soulful to bring it on home in the outro.”

Jon Batiste adds backing vocals to “Highjack,” and it was co-produced by Hitkidd, Zach Fogarty, Greg Kurstin, Jordan Patrick, Rex Kudo, and Rocky himself. Hear it below.

Pratt released Here In The Pitch, one of our favorite albums of 2024 so far, back in May, an album we discussed in depth for the latest cover story in our digital BV magazine, and we recently caught one of her two Bowery Ballroom shows.

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