Enigmatic hip hop pioneer Danny Brown has dropped off a round of visuals for Quaranta cut “Y.B.P” (which stands for young, black and poor) with up-and-coming rapper Bruiser Wolf. For the hard-hitting, head-nodding track’s music video, the two are shrunk down to clay figures, exchanging bars throughout the streets of Detroit.
Animators Will Child and Edem Wornoo spearheaded the captivating animation, which mingles live-action movement with stop-motion claymation. Brown kicks it off from his couch, spitting the first verse – his body made out of his clay, but his head delivering the track in real-time.
“Let me change the channel with the pliers / Wet clothes on the porch, we ain’t have a dryer / Spending food stamps, wait ’til ya leave the store / Too many in the bed, had to sleep on the floor.”
“See, we was young, black and poor being raised in Detroit (Raised in Detroit) / You can never learn what a n**** been taught,” the chorus asserts, as Wulf delivers his verse from the driver’s seat, before he and Brown gear up in wolf masks to carry out a bank robbery.
Stream the cinematic video for “Y.B.P.” in the gallery above, and find Quaranta streaming everywhere. The album sees a physical release this Friday, January 19 via Warp Records.
