Is Lana Del Rey and Quavo‘s “Tough” almost here? The pair unexpectedly teased the new track Wednesday night (June 19), leaving fans of both artists shaking in the comments on Instagram.
Quavo unveiled a clip of “Tough” that will be, well, tough to get out of your head once you’ve hit play. He tagged Lana on the post.
Together, 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. Billboard reached out to reps for comment.
Though details at press time are scarce, fans appreciated the new song sneak Tuesday night.
“The way you can seamlessly mix genres and not make it seem like a gimmick is TALENT!! This sounds so goodddddddddddd,” one follower praised, while another complimented, “No, like this sounds insane.” Someone compared it to the kind of top-tier pairing you get “when the teacher picks for the group project.”
“oh my lust for life roots are SHAKING,” a Lana fan wrote, referencing the singer-songwriter’s 2017 album that had features with A$AP Rocky and Playboi Carti, among others.
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. He tells her, “I’ll show you around … Come take a ride with me. Whenever. Whenever you ready, call on me.”
“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. His latest music release was the Chris Brown, following his 2023 studio album Rocket Power.
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, which reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200 — is scheduled to perform at Boston’s Fenway Park on Thursday (June 20). She’s 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.
Listen to Lana Del Rey and Quavo’s latest preview of “Tough” below.
