{"id":311683,"date":"2026-08-01T21:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T21:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311683\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T21:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T21:51:07","slug":"watch-knocked-loose-and-denzel-curry-perform-hive-mind-at-brooklyn-skatepark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/311683\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Knocked Loose and Denzel Curry perform ‘Hive Mind’ at Brooklyn skatepark"},"content":{"rendered":"

Knocked Loose<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Denzel Curry<\/a>\u00a0have\u00a0performed\u00a0their single \u2018Hive Mind\u2019 live for the first time at a surprise show in Brooklyn \u2013 watch footage below.<\/p>\n

The Kentucky hardcore band and Florida rapper released the track in February<\/a>, combining Knocked Loose\u2019s metalcore sound with Curry\u2019s\u00a0rapid-fire delivery and trap influences.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday night (July 28), they joined forces again for a free pop-up show at Substance Skatepark in Brooklyn, which was announced just one day in advance\u00a0and also\u00a0featured New York hardcore band\u00a0Combust.<\/p>\n

During Knocked Loose\u2019s set, Curry emerged to perform his verse on \u2018Hive Mind\u2019 alongside frontman Bryan Garris, as the packed skatepark descended into a mass of moshing and crowd-surfing.<\/p>\n

Check out footage of the performance here:<\/p>\n

The track\u2019s accompanying video was similarly filmed at a skatepark, with Garris and director Eric Richter capturing the band performing at David Armstrong Extreme Park in\u00a0their\u00a0hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.<\/p>\n

Garris said when the track was first released that the group had been talking about working with Curry for some time, insisting that the rapper was the only artist\u00a0who\u00a0would be able to make the track work.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wondered if we could pull it off and who would be down,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the very beginning, we said for it to work, it would have to be Denzel Curry. Because he gets it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Hive Mind\u2019 was Knocked Loose\u2019s first\u00a0new music\u00a0since their 2024 album \u2018You Won\u2019t Go Before You\u2019re Supposed To<\/a>\u2018, which included the\u00a0Grammy<\/a>-nominated\u00a0Poppy<\/a>\u00a0collaboration \u2018Suffocate<\/a>\u2018.<\/p>\n

Garris has told\u00a0NME\u00a0that the increase in attention around the group had only encouraged them to become more extreme<\/a>. \u201cWe see people reacting positively to all of this chaos that we\u2019re introducing to our\u00a0sound\u00a0and we get inspired by that feedback, inspired by past extremes working.\u00a0That\u2019s\u00a0how it will stay,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Knocked Loose and Curry will begin their co-headline \u2018Hive Mind\u2019 North American tour at the\u00a0MegaCorp\u00a0Pavilion in Newport, Kentucky on September 26. The 24-date run will take them across the continent, before wrapping in Mexico City on November\u00a08. Find any remaining tickets\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Curry released \u2018Strictly 4 The Scythe<\/a>\u2018, his collaborative album with Key\u00a0Nyata\u00a0and the wider Scythe collective, in March.<\/p>\n

In a three-star review<\/a>,\u00a0NME\u00a0described it as \u201cchaotic, playful and packed with personality\u201d, adding: \u201cLike its namesake, the tape hits like the swing of a scythe: wide rather than precise \u2013 not every cut lands cleanly, but enough to make the chaos feel intentional.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Knocked Loose\u00a0and\u00a0Denzel Curry\u00a0have\u00a0performed\u00a0their single \u2018Hive Mind\u2019 live for the first time at a surprise show in Brooklyn \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,13099,13098,9,24,63,3354],"class_list":["post-311683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-hardcore","tag-metal","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-rap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}