Old head, dope fiend rap over Paul White production. The Londoner finds the most light-less spot in LDN and adds some scratches. Danny Brown isn’t about to go and get his braids back. After all, the trap Yakuza cut was what first got Purity Ring fans to notice him. But this is a nod to […]

Son Raw can relate to your album title, bruh bruh The march towards OLD begins, laying to rest any doubts regarding Danny Brown’s focus. Much has been made of DB’s Fool’s Gold assisted, dance-music backed rise to fame since XXX, with a conservative faction decrying his shift towards higher tempos and molly music. Personally, I’m […]

This is what would be playing if robot Nazi carnies won the war. In which Danny Brown’s love of grime comes to the forefront. Kevin “The Bug” Martin mangles dancehall, dubstep, grime, and industrial techno into something that sounds like the tile would make it seem. Freakshows. $10 gets you squirting automatons and a side […]

“So many hoes on my dick, I look like Roy Orbison.” As rhymed with “I eat so many shrimp I got iodine poisoning.” Danny Brown putting numbers on the board. The Hybrid also has a new song with Nacho Picasso and the Flatbush Zombies. Below the jump.

Soul trap is probably the best self-coined sub-genre of recent memory. At his best, Tree can make music that feels like a soul trapped in hell. The beat here sounds like Pimp C trying to make beats for the first Capadonna record. Or what I hoped a David Banner record would sound like. Then there […]

There have been few if any truly great rap records this year. Kevin Gates’ Luca Brasi Story is pretty much the front-runner for rap album of the year, but I imagine the next eight months will hold heavy competition. Every year since I’ve been doing this, I wonder when the transformative rap records of the […]

If any other rapper made a dedication to Diplo, molly, and white twerking over a white trap beat, I would probably denounce it as an abomination in the good names of rap music, twerking and trap. But no one else is as fluent both in the original and hipsterified interpretations as Danny Brown. Also, no […]

Adam Wray wrote this inside the Viper Room bathroom, circa 1993. There’s no rapper working today that’s earned his hype as much as Danny Brown. Since XXX blew up he’s been getting it like he’s lived, crushing each and every track he’s hopped on and leaving a trail of smoked mics, blunts, and groupies in […]

Doc Zeus hath risen. For a man who has the stoned Scumbag Steve countenance of a young Jason Mewes, Harry Fraud of the titular “La Musica De Harry Fraud,” has managed to become one of the most accomplished young producers in hip hop. In-demand and prolific, Fraud has become the breakout producer in a resurgent […]

Max Bell is the Morris Day of the blogosphere. First impressions can make or break you. That’s always been the case, but lately, they’ve become the foundation of hype for still-developing rappers who aren’t yet worthy of the adulation. When I think about the too-much too-soon trend, the first name that comes to mind is […]