First Listen: Chris Brown's 'Don't Think They Know'

Chris Brown's newest song is a departure from the ordinary for the R&B singer. Instead of a pop melody and a flash dance routine, Brown flashes an important message: "Every two hours in America today a child dies of a gunshot wound," reads the black screen. "Unity is what we are afraid of so fear is insanity, lets love each other."

While the song itself plays out like a love story, the video contains the real message. While driving throught the crime riddled streets of Compton, Chris Brown and his buddies cruise around looking for trouble. He suddenly has a change of heart and leaves before things heat up.

One of the best samples used in years and true homage to the deceased Aaliyah, Brown drives home the anti violence message of the video. He manages to unite the Bloods and Crips, longtime gang rivals, in one clip. When Breezy is not hanging with gangsters or singing with children, he's along dancing against videos of Aaliyah.

With regards to the video, Brown said "I shot it in the hood, I went to the 60s. I went to Cedar block ...It's both worlds, it's bringing both words together in the video trying to uplift the poverty side of the community and just showing them where I'm from."

He dedicates the video to his deceased friend Michael 'Lil' Froggy' Reshard, a rapper looking to get his start. Reshard was murdered earlier this year in front of a liquor store in Compton.

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