Synopsis
Danny Brown turns a European tour into a delirious club trip in the video for "Dip." Live footage from shows in Paris, London, and Glasgow captures the rapper commanding packed crowds while quick cuts, vivid animation, cartoon markings, and warped visual effects mirror the track's ecstatic, drug-fueled energy. Brown also appears in surreal, performance-based scenes that blur concert documentation and hallucination. The result is a frantic portrait of nightlife, excess, and the chaotic charisma that defines his performance style.
Factoids & Trivia
- The video was released on September 19, 2013, shortly before Brown's album *Old* arrived through Fool's Gold Records.
- Much of the footage was captured during Brown's first European headlining tour, giving the clip an intentionally immediate, road-tested quality rather than the feel of a conventional studio production.
- The track's frantic electronic beat, produced by SKYWLKR, samples Freak Nasty's 1996 party hit "Da' Dip."
- "Dip" had already been previewed by Mark Ronson during his Boiler Room set on July 30, 2013, weeks before the official video appeared.
- The video's combination of concert footage, animation, and aggressive visual effects was singled out by Fact magazine as one of the best music-video approaches of 2013.
- The song became the first official single from *Old* to be serviced to mainstream urban radio in the United States in October 2013.