Few rappers, even great ones, have pivoted so much around the musical map like Danny Brown, who signaled his elder statement era with 2023's Quaranta — Italian for "40," as in age, like his classic 2011 breakthrough XXX did for 30.

You'd never know this from his catalog, though, which also housed his noisiest album ever two years ago, the JPEGMAFIA-pairing Scaring the Hoes. Quaranta was relatively muted and introspective, and 2019's uknowhatimsayin? took inspiration from stand-up comedy and the executive producer of dreams: Q-Tip. And these trailed the schizoid party music of 2013's Old and darker chaos of 2016's Atrocity Exhibition.

Brown's upcoming album Stardust is looking like his wildest gamble yet from its first two singles, "Starburst" and now "Copycats." Both are vivid and maximal splashes into hyperpop, the latter newly unveiled with one of the genre's biggest characters, underscores, as a featured guest on the hook. Check it out:

The underscores feature is no surprise, considering he brought her onstage at Coachella earlier this year and she's about to tour with him. "Copycats" is more compact and catchy than its epic, multi-part predecessor but they're cut from the same high-bpm cloth; with guests like 8485, Femtanyl, Jane Remover, Quadeca, and Frost Children you can bet the upcoming album will follow suit.

Stardust is out November 7.