Only 24 hours after Earl-Gate, controversy continued to shadow the odd circus in Detroit. Apparently, a frenzied crowd threw bottles at them like they were Blues Brothers. Admittedly, I’m under the impression that every rap show at Majestic or St. Andrew’s features at least a few tire irons hurtling through the air. Motown is a place where people commit arson for sport and unemployment is higher than FloRida’s hairline. Even those who only know it from 8 Mile and The Crow would expect at least a few errant gun shots and goon squads lying in wait.
In a twist that I imagine occurred only to amuse hip-hop bloggers, Danny Brown got blamed for being the infamous bottle thrower. At least, if you read Tyler and Mike G’s Tweets aimed at his haircut. Forget Brown’s steadfast denials or that he was riding for the rapescallions before their first think piece, he very clearly didn’t throw bottles because he was Twittering about how high he was off Molly. Have you ever done Molly? Shit doesn’t make you want to throw bottles. It makes you want to tell your friends how much they mean to you, while watching The Never Ending Story on mute and dancing to the minimal techo that bumps on the blogs that Tyler reads. This could have been an epic meeting of the minds.
Instead, we got 5-minute Tweef (probably already squashed) and no decent songs will emerge out of the brouhahaha. I don’t want to see conflict between rappers for the sake of entertainment, I just want one rampage a year remotely as hard as “Real Muthaphukkin’ G’s.” What does it say about the rap world circa 2011 that the best diss track of the last 18 months was aimed at bloggers’ arms? Things we’ve learned from the experience: taking Molly at an Odd Future show is a terrible idea, Hodgy Beats will throw down at the drop of a snap back, Detroit rap fans remain the definition of gully, and writers can’t call OF punk until they roll around in glass shards a la Lux Interior. Fair enough.
Coincidence or not, D. Brown dropped a new song today to go along with the Esham collabo that recently leaked. Facts gleaned from the track: He is the Adderal Admiral, he dips brushes in warpaint, he’s a motherfucking motherfucker fucking on your mother with two rubbers, bumps Bill Withers, and switches on Schwarzenegger, smoking on a cactus. No apologies for all the misogyny. He’s pretty clearly trying to one-up Space Ghost Purp, Lil B, and Odd Future, and he pretty well succeeds. As Dom Passantino points out, “Danny Brown’s main ability in rap has always been knowing exactly how much wacky he can throw on a track without coming across as annoying or a novelty.” Couple that with the new video from the Golden Axe Good Ol’ Boys (Sean Price, Black Milk, and Guilty Simpson) and you get both primary colored and psychedelically weird space rap from the D. Rap from dudes who sound like they chew on glass bottles, not throw them.
Download:
MP3: Danny Brown-”Outer Space”
MP3: Esham ft. Danny Brown-”DMT Sessions” (Left-Click)
7 comments
Sach O says:
May 17, 2011 at 4:47 pm (UTC -7)
Clearly you’re moonlighting as a defense attorney Jeff.
“Ladies and Gentlemen of the court: have you ever done Molly? Like REALLY done Molly?”
Also: These songs are almost enough to get me to forgive the haircut.
nyah says:
May 17, 2011 at 6:29 pm (UTC -7)
I love this website and all but sometimes yall write the most difficult things to understand. Trying to piece together all these references is giving me a headache and i’ll happily admit im not hip enough if it means the room will stop spinning.
-your fan
Passion of the Weiss says:
May 17, 2011 at 6:47 pm (UTC -7)
That’s fair. The pace of blogging means that articles are usually written quickly and often clarity loses. At the very least, there are good songs to download. So everyone wins.
Aaron Frank says:
May 17, 2011 at 7:42 pm (UTC -7)
nice post jeff, and these two songs alone have basically cemented my confidence in danny brown. here’s a video of the whole incident if you haven’t seen it. as one of the commenters pointed out, it’s pretty hypocritical to stir up these emotions in your lyrics and on stage and not expect fans to react in a similar way. detroit is not to be fucked with though even if it is a joke. i was honestly hoping for a spin-off reality show with danny and tyler where they just talk about who had the worst childhood issues and bro-out like the two coreys.
http://www.stereogum.com/707491/odd-future-bottled-in-detroit/video/
CD says:
May 18, 2011 at 6:23 am (UTC -7)
Clearly the one question you avoided to delve into, Mr. Journalist, is where can a guy try some Molly? Is this a new strain of green or do i have to find some teenager to show me how to huff some new kind of keyboard cleaner?
Shabby reporting, sir. i’m just saying.
Alex says:
May 18, 2011 at 11:21 am (UTC -7)
way to sneak rapescallions in there
molly is (allegedly) pure mdma
CD says:
May 18, 2011 at 12:17 pm (UTC -7)
DC’s party drug scene is so lame, but at least now i know, and that’s half the battle right there.