Key Takeaways:

• A$AP Rocky’s latest songs, “Trunks” and “Both Eyes Closed,” add emotional and narrative depth to the ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ soundtrack.
• The tracks mirror A$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.

Pretty Flacko cooked up “Trunks” and “Both Eyes Closed” for the brand new movie, which sees him play a kidnapper and rapper named Yung Felon. Expect 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**gas, soda pop, yeah, they Canada Dry,” A$AP Rocky spits on the primary verse.

On the opposite hand, “Both Eyes Closed” is extra laid again. The TESTING creator will get lyrically introspective over the report’s drowsy, but partaking groove. He raps, “Seen some s**t that made me cry, baby die from genocide / Middle finger to the man, f**k the klan, I know you hate my kind / God, tell me why my kind gotta suffer, 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. Just final month he launched “pray4dagang” with KayCyy. Last 12 months, he dropped singles “HIGHJACK,” “Tailor Swif,” which got here with a bugged-out video, and “Ruby Rosary,” that includes J. Cole. However, there may be nonetheless no confirmed launch date for the mission.

However, music and performing haven’t been the one issues conserving 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 duties, followers can count on at the least a slight shift in his sound and content material. “The guy I am now is not the guy I came [into] this business as. [I’m] not the same kid. We all know I’m a father now,” he told Apple music in July.

Highest 2 Lowest is in theaters Friday (Aug. 15).