Danny Brown - Copycats ft. Underscores

What this video is

Released October 2025, 'Copycats' arrives as the second single from Danny Brown's album 'Stardust' (Warp Records, November 7, 2025) — his first album recorded entirely sober. The track represents a deliberate generational handshake: a Detroit hip-hop veteran with a career stretching back to 2011's XXX diving headlong into the hyperpop and deconstructed club sounds championed by underscores, a San Francisco producer…

Why it matters

Marks a landmark cross-generational genre collision between legacy underground Detroit rap and 2020s hyperpop/deconstructed club. Danny Brown's pivot into hyperpop territory on 'Stardust' — collaborating with underscores, Jane Remover, Frost Children, and Femtanyl — is considered one of the most…

The director

Rollo Jackson is a British filmmaker, creative director, and photographer. Self-taught, he built a career across music videos, documentaries, and commercials. His work spans promos for James Blake, Hot Chip, Jamie XX, Pa Salieu, and The Streets, as well as…