Lana Del Rey and Quavo unexpectedly teased Wednesday night their new track called “Tough”, leaving fans of both artists shaking in the comments on Instagram.
Quavo unveiled a clip of “Tough” and tagged Lana on the post.
In the clip, they sing: “Tough like the scarf on a pair of old leather boots/ Like the blue-collar, red-dirt attitude/ Like a .38 made out of brass/ Tough like the stuff in my grandpa’s glass/ Life’s gonna do what it does/ Sure as the good lord’s up above/ Cut like a diamond shining in the rough, tough.”
A release date for “Tough” has not been announced.
Quavo uploaded a brief bit of “Tough” on Instagram last month, but Lana’s vocal hook on the track hadn’t been shared until now. In that first clip of the song, posted on May 9, the Migos star talks over a Western-guitar-and-trap-beat outro, with Lana in the background.
“If u come from where u come then u were born….Tough!” he captioned the post, which pictured a Polaroid of the two hanging out on the front porch of a house.
Lana — who’s recently spoken of an upcoming country album, "Lasso", the follow-up to 2023’s "Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd" — is scheduled to perform at Boston’s Fenway Park on Thursday.
She has been on the spring/summer festival circuit, having played this year’s Coachella, Hangout, I-Days and Primavera Sound, with Reading, Leeds and Rock en Seine to come; the one-night-only, sold-out show at Fenway will mark her first U.S. stadium headlining concert.
In February, Quavo released “Himothy,” his first solo offering of 2024, after dropping sophomore solo album Rocket Power in 2023. More recently fans have heard “Over Hoes & B—es,” released in response to a Chris Brown track.
On Tuesday, which would have been his late nephew Takeoff’s 30th birthday, Quavo hosted a summit against gun violence in Atlanta, with Vice President Kamala Harris