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This weekend, Gregg Gillis, aka Girl Talk, announced Broken Ankles, his forthcoming collaborative EP with Philadelphia rapper Freeway. It's out this fall via DatPiff. Freeway also appeared on stage during Girl Talk's set at Brooklyn Bowl Saturday night. They announced their collaboration to the crowd, and then they debuted a new track. Watch video of their performance of "Tolerated" below.

Girl Talk's last album was 2010's All Day. Freeway's last full-length was 2012's Diamond in the Ruff. According to a press release, Broken Ankles features "ideas slightly removed from his trademark hyper-mashup style" featuring "a wider range of samples, some more obscure than what he would normally use in his Top 40-focused work" as well as "more original instrumentation."

Gillis said of the project:

It was liberating and exciting working on a different style of material. I couldn't stop. A bunch of the ideas were things I've been wanting to do for years... I've been a fan of Freeway since I first heard him on '1-900-Hustler,' and I just thought he was the perfect fit for what I had in mind. I wanted the album to be diverse, and I wanted someone who could maneuver around quick changes mid-song. Freeway is the rare rapper who sounds natural on all types of beats, ranging from cut-up soul to menacing synth-jams. His energy is unreal, and he's able to keep up with any production... I wanted to work closer to traditional song structure compared to my last few albums, but still include some detailed sample splicing and change-ups when it felt appropriate. The overall structure is what I thought worked best with Freeway's style... It's always important to me to have an album that works as a whole; something that has a calculated flow to it, which is intended to be listened to front to back.

Watch Girl Talk (with Jim Jones) and Freeway's episodes of Pitchfork.tv's "Selector":