A$AP Rocky Talks “Don’t Be Dumb”, Beef In Hip-Hop & Being A Girl Dad [Video]

A$AP Rocky pulls up to The Ebro Show sounding like someone who’s fully back in album mode, but with the perspective of a man who’s got real life at home now.

The conversation circles his long-awaited new project, “Don’t Be Dumb“—his first full-length in eight years—and he frames it less like a “comeback” and more like a reset: still hungry, still competitive, but moving with a different kind of calm that comes from having bigger priorities than noise.

That “noise” inevitably comes up when Ebro steers into rap beef and the internet’s obsession with it. Rocky’s take is basically that a lot of today’s tension is performative—he compares hip-hop beef tactics to wrestling—while still making it clear that some relationships really are done. On the Drake chatter, he doesn’t dress it up: he says there isn’t “real smoke,” but he simply doesn’t associate with him anymore, and he calls the whole dynamic petty—especially when people continue to poke at old romantic history for clout.

And then the interview pivots into the part that quietly explains the tone shift: fatherhood. Rocky talks about being a dad—specifically a “girl dad,” with Rihanna and their three kids (including a daughter born in September 2025)—and you can hear how that role reframes what he even considers worth responding to. It’s the kind of sit-down that balances music, ego, and real-life stakes in one breath, which is exactly where Rocky seems to be sitting on this album run.