Detroit rapper Danny Brown has just announced the release date for his highly anticipated and Q-Tip produced album unkowhatimsayin¿, which will be out on October 4th via Warp Records. Accompanying this release is a new music video for the album’s first single “Dirty Laundry”, which is directed by Simon Cahn, and a fall tour announcement.

This latest single shows a new form of lyricism for the rapper, and is a departure from the dark gritty and industrial inspired sound that was featured on his 2016 release Atrocity Exhibition. The music video follows the rapper’s affinity for comedy, showing the raper in a disheveled suit and hair, walking around the city of Detroit, riding a cab, and making stops at a laundromat and a liquor store.

This stylistic departure is likely to appear on the entire album, as Brown credits Q-Tip with forming his new sound into the a direction that follows more of a hardcore hip hop style from the 1990s. This also marks the first time that Q-Tip has executive produced an album since Mobb Deep’s classic hip hop album The Infamous in 1995.

“There was no room for error. Q-Tip wanted me to go back to that ‘Greatest Rapper Ever’ era. I almost had to relearn how to rap again — an ego death type thing,” Brown explained in a press release. “He gave me this whole new outlook on music. I can’t go back to how I was before.”

uknowhatimsayin¿

1. Change Up
2. Theme Song
3. Dirty Laundry
4. 3 Tearz (feat. Run The Jewels)
5. Belly of the Beast (feat. Obongjayar)
6. Savage Nomad
7. Best Life
8. uknowhatimsayin¿
9. Negro Spiritual (feat. JPEGMAFIA)
10. Shine (feat. Blood Orange)
11. Combat

Tour Dates

09-07 Toronto, Ontario – RBC Echo Beach (MATTYFEST)
10-12 Atlanta, GA – Afropunk ATL
10-14 Nashville, TN – Basement East
10-16 New Orleans, LA – Republic NOLA
10-17 Houston, TX – Warehouse Studio
10-18 Dallas, TX – Canton Hall
10-19 Austin, TX – Empire Control Room and Garage
10-21 Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
10-22 Pomona, CA – Glass House
10-23 San Diego, CA – Music Box
10-25 Los Angeles, CA – The Regent
10-26 San Francisco, CA – August Hall
10-28 Portland, OR – Roseland Theater
10-29 Vancouver, British Columbia – Vogue Theater
10-31 Seattle, WA – The Showbox
11-02 Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex
11-03 Denver, CO – Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom
11-05 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
11-07 Chicago, IL – The Metro
11-08 Milwaukee, WI – The Rave 2
11-10 Cleveland, OH – House of Blues
11-11 Philadelphia, PA – Theater of Living Arts
11-13 Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Soundstage
11-15 Boston, MA – Big Night Live
11-17 New Haven, CT – Toad’s Place
11-18 Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw
11-19 Montreal, Quebec – Corona Theater

Photo Credit: Richard Saethang