A$AP Rocky put out “Shroom Clouds” on Friday, October 16, the first official single from Disc 2 of his album Don’t Be Dumb. The track features reggie and Jeremih, and arrives with a music video Rocky co-directed with Aisultan Seitov and Pietro Biz Biasia. Fans have known the song for years: it was previewed roughly five years ago and performed during an Amazon Music show, but it had never had a proper release until now.
Rocky had trailed it on October 14 with a single cover reading “SHROOM CLOUDS (SINGLE) FRIDAY.” Some early write-ups called it “Mushroom Clouds,” borrowing the hook phrase; the released title is the shorter one.
What Disc 2 is
Disc 2 is an expansion of Don’t Be Dumb, Rocky’s fourth studio album, which came out on January 16 through AWGE and RCA Records. Rather than a fresh album, it gathers songs that circulated for years without an album home. In a recent interview Rocky named “Babushka Boi,” “Sundress,” “Grim Freestyle,” “Highjack” and “Trunks” as tracks headed for the new disc, and said they would not simply be reissued as they were.
“It’s all going to live on this too with like new revisions to it, new verses and a couple of new singles that people probably never heard,” he said.
For a rapper whose album was once held up partly by leaks, folding those loose singles into a deluxe disc gives them a permanent, finished place in the catalog.
The album’s long road, by the numbers
Don’t Be Dumb was Rocky’s first album since Testing in 2018, and the wait was longer than even the first announced date suggested. During Paris Fashion Week in June 2024 he said it would arrive on August 30, 2024. Sample clearances and leaks pushed it back, and it finally landed on January 16, 2026.
Count the days between those two dates and the slip comes to 504: 365 days to August 30, 2025, plus 139 more to January 16, 2026. That is about 16 and a half months later than the first promised date.
The payoff was real. The album opened at No. 1 on the US albums chart with 123,000 equivalent album units in its first week, Rocky’s third chart-topper and his first in more than a decade. It drew 35.4 million first-day streams on Spotify, at that point the biggest album streaming debut of 2026, and it has sold more than 140,000 vinyl copies worldwide, the most of any rap album this year. Tim Burton designed the cover art and appears in the joint video for “Whiskey” and “Air Force.”
The guest list on the original record runs from Brent Faiyaz, BossMan Dlow and Doechii to Gorillaz, Westside Gunn, will.i.am and Jessica Pratt, with Tyler, the Creator, Jozzy, Tokischa and Imogen Heap on the digital edition. Production credits include Hit-Boy, Thundercat, Damon Albarn, Greg Kurstin and Clams Casino, with Mike Dean mixing much of it.
Fresh off the road
“Shroom Clouds” also lands just after Rocky came off the Don’t Be Dumb Tour. The run opened in Chicago on May 27 and closed in Athens on October 11 after 49 shows across North America and Europe. Spread over those 137 days, that is a show roughly every 2.8 days for four and a half months, and the new single arrived only five days after the final night.
Critics broadly liked the January album: it holds an average score of 71 out of 100 across 13 reviews on one aggregator. Disc 2 gives Rocky a second chance to win over listeners who wanted more of the songs they had been hearing in clips.
No release date for Disc 2 had been confirmed in what Rocky has said so far. The tracks he has named so far:
- “Shroom Clouds” featuring reggie and Jeremih (out October 16)
- “Babushka Boi”
- “Sundress”
- “Grim Freestyle”
- “Highjack”
- “Trunks”
Further reading
Image: David Hwang, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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