Mick Jenkins and BADBADNOTGOOD Unite For a Dramatic Runaway Slave Tale in the "Drowning" Video

Mick Jenkins and BADBADNOTGOOD team up for the "Drowning" video.

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Mick Jenkins enlists the help of BADBADNOTGOOD for his new song and video "Drowning." The moody track underscores a dramatic video of a slave escape. Mick runs away from the slave owners in the video, and ends up nearly drowning in a river during his bid to escape. The climatic ending finds the roles reversed with a different outcome.

"Drowning" serves as a Red Bull Sound Select track and also counts as the second single (and first video) for Jenkins' upcoming debut album The Healing Component. The project drops on Sept. 23, and will also feature the previously released single "Spread Love." The Healing Component follows his two previous mixtapes, 2014's The Water[s] and 2015's Wave[s].

Fans will get a chance to see Mick performing songs from The Healing Component live during his recently-announced tour. Jenkins will be hitting 12 cities across North America starting in late September, with St. Louis rapper Smino alongside him. "Just trying to see how much love is out there in the world in a time where we need it the most," Mick said when discussing the tour. "It's so easy to hate, have a negative opinion. I want to actively talk about love—what it is, what it means to people, what it looks like and in just mere conversation that energy might be transferred. But with the music, that is precisely what we aim to do." You can check out all the dates and get more information about the tour here.

Check out Mick Jenkins and BADBADNOTGOOD's "Drowning" visuals in the video above. You can pre-order The Healing Component on iTunes.

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