Today (July 3), linked up with Quavo to drop “ ,” a new collaborative single. Del Rey — who is best known for ethereal, Americana-inspired music that typically has little to do with rap — doesn’t exactly live and breathe hip-hop. At least, that’s what you might believe if you haven’t been paying attention.
Yes, she usually collaborates with artists like Taylor Swift and Father John Misty, but the truth is that hip-hop has been an undercurrent of Del Rey’s career since pretty much the very start. To drive that point home, let’s go through a few highlights that illustrate Del Rey’s long-running connection to hip-hop. 2012 — “National Anthem” The world met Del Rey on her debut major-label album, 2012’s .
The project spawned a number of singles, the most relevant one here being “National Anthem”: In the video, she plays Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy, while she recruited ASAP Rocky to portray John F. Kennedy. 2015 — “Art Deco” It was rumored that this song was about Azealia Banks, but Del Rey herself , saying in an interview, “Definitely not.
I have no idea where people got that from. I just don’t know what the correlation is. That song is actually about a group of teenagers who go out every night.
” That didn’t stop the two from getting into , though, during which Del Rey showed her teeth: She invited Banks to “pull up” and declared, “I won’t not f*ck you the f*ck up.” 2017 — ASAP Rocky Del Rey reunited with her “.