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"Vampire Weekend have joked that they were A$AP Rocky before he was. The band were asked by Digital Spy if their new single &amp;#039;Step&amp;#039;, which concludes with a low-pitch vocal similar to that of Rocky&amp;#039;s, was inspired by the rapper.   Guitarist/keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij said: &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve worked on music for a long time together and we&amp;#039;ve experimented with pitching down vocals a bunch. It&amp;#039;s not something that&amp;#039;s inspired us recently; we&amp;#039;ve done it for ten years, if you could dig up all our experiments together!&amp;quot; Asked if this meant they were A$AP Rocky before he was, Batmanglij laughed and continued: &amp;quot;Yeah. That&amp;#039;s not to say he doesn&amp;#039;t bring his own style and courage to the way he does it. I think he&amp;#039;s pushing boundaries with the extent to which he&amp;#039;s doing it. But yeah, it&amp;#039;s nothing new.&amp;quot; The Vampire Weekend star, who co-produced their new album Modern Vampires of the City alongside Ariel Rechtshaid, also teased to DS that the band have plans to turn &amp;#039;Step&amp;#039; into a collaborative project with other artists. Batmanglij added: &amp;quot;We have plans to do something, but it&amp;#039;s too early to talk about that... That song is about people who can be possessive over music they love, and it&amp;#039;s also about other songs; with that in mind, it&amp;#039;s gonna be fun to turn it into a big project. That&amp;#039;s all I&amp;#039;ll say for now.&amp;quot; Vampire Weekend&amp;#039;s new album Modern Vampires of the City is released on May 13. &amp;gt; Read the band&amp;#039;s full interview with DS Watch the lyric video for Vampire Weekend&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Step&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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