After decades of rapping at an elite level without comparison, Tech N9ne decided to open up more than ever before on his 25th full-length album and most poignant, personal, and poetic body of work yet entitled “5816 Forest”, out June 27, 2025 via Strange Music.

Setting the stage for the arrival of “5816 Forest”, the chart-topping rapper dropped an introspective and infectious new single and music video entitled “This I Know.”

Across the song, bright piano blinks beneath triumphant horns and loose bluesy guitar. A soul sample punctuates Tech’s rhymes as he reaches back into his earliest memories and paints a big screen-worthy picture of his formative years.

It builds towards an affirmation on the hook as he proclaims, “I might not be a wonder with the numbers, but that music, this I know,” going on to profess, “I know you show the love…this I know…I gotta go because, this I know.”

The video says it all though. Donning a debonair black suit, Tech spits the lyrics accompanied by Kevin Church Johnson on the piano. It’s as simple and impactful as the song is.