Lana Del Rey and Quavo Unveil Release Date for "Tough" Collaboration

Lana Del Rey and Quavo will release their new single “Tough” on July 3, the singers announced Friday. 

The pair confirmed the release date following weeks of teasers with a post on Instagram featuring a black-and-white Polaroid photo of Del Rey putting a diamond chain on Quavo.

Del Rey and Quavo delivered the debut live performance of “Tough” last week during Del Rey’s headlining performance at Boston’s Fenway Park. 

“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,” they sing together.

Del Rey 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.

“Tough” is presumably a single from Del Rey’s upcoming album titled “Lasso,” which she announced earlier this year during an appearance at Billboard’s pre-Grammy event in Los Angeles.

“If you can’t already tell by our award winners and our performers, the music business is going country,” she told the crowd. “We’re going country. It’s happening. That’s why Jack [Antonoff] has followed me to Muscle Shoals, Nashville, Mississippi, over the last four years.” At the time, Del Rey said the album would be released in September.

“Lasso” follows 2023’s “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd,”.