File this under Danny Brown meets The Pixies meets grimy futuristic robot fight music. Somewhere on a hard drive slathered in hallucinogenic fungus lurks the files that The Hybrid cut with the Johnson and Jonson crew (Mainframe and Blu). I don’t know the origins of this track, but I’d bet it was cut during Brown’s […]

40 bottles, towering infernos, and white boys hanging stiffer than hair mousse. Brown bringing forth the most fiendish video of the year — with production quality finally on par with the raps. Maybe next year the Hybrid can be Rolling Stone’s “Hot Horror Core Revivalist.” Download: MP3: Danny Brown-“Cyclops”

Aaron Matthews is coming for you, David Gregory. Following Jeff’s comprehensive talk with Motown’s golden boy, what follows is an interview with some of the producers responsible for The Hybrid’s cohesive sound. Denmark Vessey and Quelle (formerly of Wasted Youth) comprise the Chicago/Detroit group Crown Nation, and along with Quelle’s little brother Mosel, are collectively […]

Brown has many blunts to blaze before the song title can be accepted at face value, but the Hybrid has my vote for rapper of the year. This explains why I stay writing on the Grandmama-jersey sporting rapper when I have a half-dozen other posts pinballing around my head. Other rappers need better promotion, but […]

My long-delayed interview with The Hybrid has beat both Act II and Detox to market. Solace in minor victories. The abridged version is running concurrently at Pop & Hiss, along with a mini-feature on the best advertisement for Adderall since college finals.  When you broke down The Hybrid on your Tumblr page, you traced its […]

Urban blight, blunts, and braids. Interview coming sooner than later. Probably after the Labor Day break. No excuses, but punctuality is not a virtue of the perennially stoned. Brown is a hard man to track down. The hold up is there needs to be a part two of the interview. Part one was halted when […]

Danny Brown “The Hybrid” from FWMJ on Vimeo. Danny Brown rocking the Cincinnati Reds jersey, dissing Les Nubians, doing what’s necessary to earn the top spot on my favorite rapper’s list. For the first time in a decade, I can be proud of the Redlegs, who are now three up in the Central and scored […]

Until future notice, I will be posting every new Danny Brown verse I stumble across. Granted, I should spread the wealth more and this probably alienates the people who come here for Douglas’ posts about San Francisco psych rock and the occasional vocab word of the day (I’m learning so much!), but fuck it. Other […]

Danny Brown “Shootin’ Moves” Video from FWMJ on Vimeo. Someone needs to give Danny Brown money to make a real video. In the meantime, I will settle for fish eye lens shots in seedy motels, blunts, ounces of chronic, Manute Bol-era Washington Bullets jerseys, and George Costanza references. I could do without the shoe shopping, […]

I was supposed to premiere this on Pop & Hiss along with a lengthy Danny Brown interview, but I have three deadlines on Monday and had to interview Bun B and El-P last week. So it goes. Hopefully, an interview with the Hybrid will come sooner than later. In the meantime, more music from the […]