Zelooperz and Black Noi$e's Pin Breakers Arrives

By Odessa Vance, November 13, 2026

A rap record Zelooperz and Black Noi$e finished years ago, then lost on a hard drive, is listed for Nov. 13, 2026, on Earl Sweatshirt's Tan Cressida label. That is the story Tom Breihan at Stereogum reported when the album was announced on Oct. 22, 2026, and it is the one the official Apple Music listing now dates. The page credits both artists equally, marks Pin Breakers Explicit, and prints 11 songs in 22 minutes. The copyright line is "℗ 2026 Tan Cressida under exclusive license to The Harp." This is Zelooperz's first release for the label, as Breihan wrote in that announcement.

Peter Helman at Stereogum, writing on Nov. 5, 2026, called Pin Breakers "both a new album and an old album." The old part is the work itself. Breihan wrote that the two "started working together in 2017, when both of them were living at the Bruiser House, the home base for Danny Brown's Bruiser Brigade crew." Over two years, he wrote, they recorded a full collaborative album that they finished in 2019, "but then they lost the hard drive where they'd been keeping it." "Black Noi$e has since recovered that hard drive," Breihan wrote, and the official listing now puts both names on the front of that recovered record. In that same Oct. 22 report, he said the album had also been available on Bandcamp in June, before this official date. The new part is the official date: Nov. 13, 2026, on Tan Cressida.

The name comes from a bowling injury. The official artwork is a black-and-white photograph of hands holding a cracked bowling ball. The label release, as KAZI quoted it when "Masons Dispatch" came out on Nov. 7, 2026, says Zelooperz dislocated his shoulder throwing a bowling ball during a trip to Glendale, an injury that stayed with him for six months, and that the title plays on the pins he hit and on "the freedom of breaking the pen." Stereogum reported the injury as Black Noi$e's.

"Beautician" was the announcement single in Breihan's Oct. 22 report. "Masons Dispatch" followed it, and is the fourth official track. Danny Brown, who in Breihan's account is part of the Bruiser House story, is the only guest on the official listing, and he appears on one song, "Nostradamus." That is the sixth track, and at 2:07 it is just over two minutes. Most of the record is shorter.

Zelooperz and Black Noi$e: Pin Breakers (Tan Cressida)

The official tracklist

Apple Music and the iTunes listing print the same 11 titles, including the exact spellings "Pain T Wayne," "Baby Bruisin," and "Aha aha." The official times, in order, are:

1. "Listen," 1:30

2. "Pain T Wayne," 1:35

3. "Beautician," 1:14

4. "Masons Dispatch," 1:28

5. "The Music," 0:44

6. "Nostradamus (feat. Danny Brown)," 2:07

7. "My Momma," 3:59

8. "River Rouge," 1:51

9. "Baby Bruisin," 2:25

10. "Sailing Seas," 2:52

11. "Aha aha," 2:37

The record starts short. The first five official tracks all run under 1:40, and "The Music" is 44 seconds. "My Momma," at 3:59, is the longest, and the only official track that comes close to four minutes. Six of the 11 official times run under two minutes, which is most of the album. After "Nostradamus," the listing moves through "River Rouge" at 1:51, then closes on three tracks that run longer than two minutes: "Baby Bruisin," "Sailing Seas," and "Aha aha." KAZI's week-of-Nov. 13 hip-hop albums roundup, published Nov. 10, already had the official 11-song, 22-minute count. Here is the full list those numbers came from.

That is why it is worth putting on. A record that sat on a lost hard drive for years comes back as 11 tracks in 22 minutes, with Danny Brown as the only guest and most of the songs under two minutes. You can start with the two songs that were already out, "Beautician" and "Masons Dispatch," and hear the rest of the official album in those 22 minutes. The wait was long. The official album is brief, and the place to start is the tracklist itself.

Odessa Vance called it first: Zelooperz and Black Noi$e, November 13, 2026. Run back "Masons Dispatch."

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