DANNY BROWN

tbh hoping for the antic wild stuff live, though

M@tt otm, best when he finds the balance between the two voices. May be why I still prefer The Hybrid to anything else he's released since.

gripes about the voice aside...man...this album is really something huh?

gripes about the voice aside...man...this album is really something huh?

this has been a problem for me from day one. love everything about Danny except those songs.

like the more natural delivery, his really antic, hyper voice wears on me

imo the "natural voice" stuff is mostly a framing device for the "here comes danny brown!" moment when the lyrics fall back into the depression/paranoia.... drugs/pussy/no sleep/AHHHH lyrical breakdown

Today has some 'Kast BOB flow/cadence going

album kinda dropped off in the middle but the ends are great

ungh I think the openers have short sets so they threw a really perfunctory dj out. maybe should have shown up later -- I usually like to see openers but this is padding wtf

first thoughts are all "omg this the best shit ever" hyperbole. it's obv not perfect but i don't see my opinion dropping much!

i can see some of the backlash coming already - look, he made an artsy noisy obtuse album for ppl who don't like street rap/ppl who dont like popular rap/hipsters/insert strawman here - but every indication of his personality makes me feel like he made exactly what he wanted to make, and hear.

(overwrought metaphor coming) it feels like distorted sonar dispatches from someone traveling through the inside of his head. (overwrought metaphor that i nonetheless believe complete)

only getting to listen to this in small chunks but it's great so far. i don't always like Paul White's production but it works for a cohesive sound across the whole thing (the beat on 'Pneumonia' though, i'd be ok if Evian Christ did every track).

evian christ (thumbs up)

the sequence from "Really Doe" to "Dance in the Water" is amazing

Today has some 'Kast BOB flow/cadence going

he straight up quotes BOB!

yes the "cure for cancer/cure for AIDS" bit

This is aces

Damn his verse on really doe

Earl Sweatshirt verse is kinda garbs

Earl is so overrated

Album has its moments, but it's not as good as Old so far... production sounds like its competing with DB. White Lines is cool though.

love this album, especially all the uptempo tracks. it's all i've felt like listening to lately.

production sounds like its competing with DB.

when i heard the tracks they released ahead of the album i had that same thought, that the post-punky samples didn't really blend with his voice, but in context it all somehow works.

on the other hand, i really don't like the production on the new Open Mike Eagle, there it clashes and doesn't leave enough space for him.

one of the year's best imo

I think I agree

Yep, great album on the strength of the production alone. Need to dig more into the lyrics but this is definitely standing up to Old and XXX

just heard an old bigg jus company flow verse and thought "hmm this is a danny brown crazy voice verse, without the crazy voice"

New mostly instrumental mixtape from Paul White https://paulwhite.bandcamp.com/

He posted the video for "Ain't it Funny" yesterday. Probably my favorite video of his. Increasingly convinced that Danny Brown is one of the best rappers atm. He's got a unique, singular vision. Him, Earl, Kanye... I would listen to anything they do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L4JnAuW00k

Great song and an even better video (directed by Jonah Hill????)

Every time I come across a Danny Brown song, my reaction is always "who knew that people would be all over a rapping Sammy Davis, Jr?"

I didn't think I'd ever heard this guy, but after ^ that description I suspected it was that weird sounding guy on that one track on Sour Soul, and so I investigated and of course it is. will probably listen to this

Q-Tip!

as dear as xxx is to me, not sure he'll ever top the hybrid

new one is probably my favourite since those two

this is tons of fun.

quadruple x today -- happy bday!

Nice.

CHACK

New album on Friday. Stoked.

https://www.stereogum.com/2242592/danny-brown-quaranta/reviews/album-of-the-week/

really excited that paul white is back producing on at least some of the new one. tbd which tracks, but i'd bet that's him on the first released tune "tantor." either way it's fantastic. can't wait for the rest.

Nice--that Paul White This Heat flip on XXX was truly inspired IMO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCfAqryvPX0

First listen standouts for me on the new one are “Dark Sword Angel” and “Celibate”.

enjoying the new LP!

the production on this one is so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd0Bwa15BQc

One of the albums of the year.

genius video, banger track

loving this - feels like it has more variety & space than the last couple might be down to the two distinct voices he uses & how on some of these tracks he has simplified his rhyming to i guess suit the primal grunt of the emotions he was experiencing some of that stuff reminds of scarface love ypb / jenns terrific etc but the whole thing i think is gold