Lana Del Rey and Quavo Star as Countryside Lovers in Cozy ‘Tough’ Video — Watch!

• Lana Del Rey and Quavo dropped their single “Tough” and music video on Wednesday, July 3rd
• The singer-rapper pair first collaborated in June at Del Rey’s headlining concert at Boston’s Fenway Park.
• The new track marks Del Rey’s first collaboration with the rapper since 2017 Lust for life

Finally, Lana Del Rey and Quavo’s genre-bending collaboration, “Tough,” is finally here.

After weeks of teasing fans with clips and live performances, the “Summertime Sadness” singer, 39, and the Migos rapper, 33, released their new track on Wednesday, July 3, along with an intimate Wyatt Spain Winfrey-directed village visual.

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Set against a rural backdrop and picturesque haze, the two artists play an intrepid guitar-loving, gun-wielding couple as they bond over life’s trials fearlessly.

“Tough as a scratch on a pair of old leather boots / Like a blue collar, red dirty attitude / Like a .38 made of brass / Tough as the stuff in your grandfather’s glass,” Del Rey sings breathlessly on the song’s chorus.

Quavo and Lana Del Rey star in “Tough” music video.

Wyatt Spain Winfrey

The video shows her and Quavo in love with each other as they share cozy bear hugs outside their rustic mansion and cuddle under the sun on a grassy field. One scene even shows the singer-rapper pair teasing each other, while another shows Del Rey lovingly sitting on her collaborator’s lap on the porch of their cottage, holding a guitar.

“Tell me how hard it is for you / Like a coin on the strings and your good old Gibson guitar,” the duo switch up the single’s second verse. “Like the songs your mama sings you / And the way it makes you tell the truth / If you come from where you came, then you were born strong.”

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Produced by Andrew Watt and Cirkut and written by Clayton Johnson, “Tough” finds Del Rey and Quavo seamlessly blending their styles over a country-trap beat, harkening back to the hip-hop-influenced sound that graced the former’s acclaimed album. . debut album, Born to die.

The new track marks Del Rey’s first collaboration with the rapper since 2017 Lust for life, which included tracks with A$AP Rocky and Playboi Carti. She and Quavo got their first glimpse of it in an Instagram teaser on Wednesday, June 19, followed by a debut performance at Del Rey’s headlining show at Boston’s Fenway Park the next day.

Quavo and Lana Del Rey star in “Tough” music video.

Wyatt Spain Winfrey

Earlier this year, Del Rey announced plans to release a country album titled 2024 Lasso, expected to arrive sometime in September. Per Boardhitmaker shared the news of her upcoming 10th studio album during the Billboard x NMPA Songwriter Awards.

“If you can’t already tell by our award winners and our artists, the music business is going down the drain,” she told the crowd. “We are going to the country. Occurs. That’s why Jack followed me to Muscle Shoals, Nashville, Mississippi, for the last four years.”

Del Rey once again teased her country-influenced album while speaking with NME in May, saying, “Oh, God, what can I say now? When I gave Jack Antonoff his producer of the year award [at the 2024 Grammys]I said, ‘Welcome Nashville to Hollywood and Hollywood, welcome to Nashville,’ because the music business has gone, gone country.”

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“And they fell silent; 5,000 people, dead silence,” she added. “The next week we had three major artists announcing major country albums.”

The “A&W” singer remained tight-lipped about the details after being asked what fans can expect from her new project. “So where is he? Lasso I am going to? Now I really have no idea!” Del Rey replied.

Meanwhile, Quavo dropped his latest solo studio album, Rocket power — which featured two songs with his late nephew, Takeoff, last August.

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