Award-winning American rapper, A$AP Rocky has kick-started August with a new single, ‘Highjack’.
Co-produced by Greg Kurstin, Hitkidd, Jordan Patrick, and Zach Fogarty, the well-crafted record features Jessica Pratt. The song is carved out of diversity, artistry, and creativity, and it also has background vocals from CreedB Good and John Batiste.
Sharing his experience working with Pratt in an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, A$AP Rocky said;
“I just love alternative,” the rapper said. “I love just different sounds and whatnot. [Jessica 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.”
‘Hijack’ follows previously released songs including “D.M.B.,” “Shittin’ Me,” “Same Problems?,” and “Riot (Rowdy Pipe’n), all of Rocky’s forthcoming ‘Don’t Be Dumb’ full-length studio album scheduled to be released on the 30th of August this year.
Since her 2019 ‘Quiet Signs studio album, Pratt returned to the music scene earlier this year with ‘Here In The Pitch’. In between albums, Troye Sivan sampled Pratt’s On Your Own Love Again single “Back, Baby” for his Something to Give Each Other song “Can’t Go Back, Baby.” Commenting on the sample, Pratt said, in 2023, “‘Back, Baby’ was recorded to a cassette tape in a tiny bedroom 10 years ago, so it was really unexpected to get a request from him. Like everybody else, I find Troye to be irresistible.”
