Am I Dreaming

Am I Dreaming — Metro Boomin, A$AP Rocky & Roisee Float Above the Spider-Verse

There is a specific kind of creative freedom that comes when a film gives a producer a blank canvas and says: make something that sounds like this world. In the summer of 2023, that world was the quantum-layered, graffiti-saturated, visually overwhelming universe of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and the producer handed that canvas was Metro Boomin. The soundtrack he assembled was one of the year's most critically discussed, and somewhere in its architecture sat Am I Dreaming, a hazy, weightless collaboration with A$AP Rocky and rising voice Roisee.

Metro Boomin at the Center of Everything

By 2023, Metro Boomin had spent a decade building the production language of modern trap. His work with Future, 21 Savage, and Young Thug had shaped the sonic vocabulary of an era. Taking on the Spider-Verse soundtrack project, however, asked something different of him: not just individual records but a cohesive sonic world, something with thematic weight and cinematic range. The resulting project showed his range. Am I Dreaming appeared on the soundtrack side, where guest artists met the film's universe on their own terms.

A$AP Rocky and the Art of Atmosphere

A$AP Rocky has always been a rapper unusually interested in texture. His production choices across his career have consistently prioritized feel over function, and he gravitates toward tracks where mood precedes message. Am I Dreaming suited that sensibility perfectly: the production shimmers at the edges, a little untethered, more like a state of mind than a traditional hip-hop instrumental. Rocky floats over it in a way that matches the film's aesthetic, which was itself a meditation on identity, disorientation, and the vertigo of existing in multiple realities at once.

Roisee and the Track's Emotional Core

Roisee, a Brooklyn artist whose voice carries a quality somewhere between melodic rap and pure singing, provided the song with its most emotionally direct moments. His presence grounded the track's dream logic in something that felt like genuine feeling rather than pure atmosphere. The collaboration between three artists with distinct registers produced a piece with real internal tension: skeptical, longing, and suspended all at once, which mapped precisely onto the film's themes of a young hero unsure whether the life he's living is the right one.

The Chart Performance

The song debuted at number 51 on the Billboard Hot 100 on June 17, 2023, and held that position for a second week before sliding, spending four weeks on the chart total. Those numbers were largely driven by the film's opening weekend, which was itself a massive commercial and critical event. Soundtrack tracks face a particular set of chart dynamics: they rise sharply on film promotion, then settle once the theatrical cycle moves on. Am I Dreaming followed that pattern faithfully.

A Soundtrack That Refused to Be Background Music

What distinguished the Spider-Verse soundtrack from most superhero film tie-ins was its ambition. Metro Boomin treated it as an artistic project rather than a marketing exercise, and the result was music that held up on its own, away from the screen. Accumulating over 46 million YouTube views, Am I Dreaming proved that listeners were returning to it outside the cinema context. For A$AP Rocky and Roisee, it offered a showcase in front of an audience extending well beyond their usual listeners.

Put on headphones, close your eyes, and let the layers of Am I Dreaming do exactly what the title promises.

“Am I Dreaming” — Metro Boomin, A$AP Rocky & Roisee's singular moment on the 2020s charts.