What Do You Think Of Danny Brown?

narwhalthe

Well, what do you all think of him?

conor.hogan.2

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

This is all I have heard by him, not bad.

Da Shins Kelly

I like him. His delivery is so weird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj0jiEIyT24

His verse on this is my favourite in the whole song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0ijOe3sGEk

LUPE

Honestly don't see the fuss. His XXX album was meant to be the best of last year. I've listened to it three or four times straight through and its barely decent, its a difficult listen tbh.

Couple of good verses here and there, otherwise he's pure hipster hype

HATCHET IRL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNXSB2syi1I

I like when he guest appears on other peoples songs like above, but find it hard to listen to a full album of his, but in sayin that i still havent listened to black and brown and iv only heard good things about that.

Real Life

hes got a great verse on this

conor.hogan.2

LUPE wrote: »

hipster

I don't think you know what that means.

LUPE

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

I don't think you know what that means.

Go on then

narwhalthe

I get what LUPE means by hipster hype. A lot of hipsters do seem to like him thanks for pitchfork it seems.

This got me into him surprisingly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-92qAjbGDo

Started listening to his album on the drives to work and like it a lot now.

I find reading about albums can ruin them because articles often make them out to be something else.

Weird delivery but I think it works.

Da Shins Kelly

Yeah, I hardly ever read reviews of albums. It plants ideas in your mind of what the album is like or the kind of people who are into it and thus influences how you feel about it.

narwhalthe

True that Da Shins Kelly!

I find it the same when someone gives me music and swears it's 'the best' too.

Have you listened to much Danny Brown?

Da Shins Kelly

narwhalthe wrote: »

True that Da Shins Kelly!

I find it the same when someone gives me music and swears it's 'the best' too.

Have you listened to much Danny Brown?

I have listened to a good bit of his stuff. I like him. He's different anyway.

horsebox09

I like him, he's released some quality stuff, although his music can be hard to get into

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18zpDPdsP3Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHfWY0is3rE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTKI2SjX44w

steinone

LUPE wrote: »

he's pure hipster hype

I think this idea comes from the fact that a lot of his influences are from a electronic music background. Electronic trap is coming into the forefront of "hipster" scenes (soon to be more mainstream) at the moment.

I personally like his stuff, he's different and doesn't seem to care or want to change his style.

mufcboy1999

Listened to him for a while and enjoyed what I heard, ended up losing interest just like I did with jay electronica and Freddie Gibbs.

Todd Umptious

I do like him, only heard of him at the start of the year through the xxl freshmen list and he stood out because he listed Dizzee Rascal as an influence, it just seemed funny for an american artist to include a uk artist. I saw an interview with Macklemore last weekend and he said how Danny Brown had got him into Dizzee aswell.:pac:

Ive listend to XXX and Detroit State of Mind 4 and while not classic material there is some highlights on there for me at least

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCt7ZxMoQyo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSX4vkHENLk

Boom_Bap

I quite like him, he can be a bit hit or miss, especially early on. But he seems to have a good run of consistency now.
Some of his features steal the show, and I like the whole El-P, Das Racist, Mr MFN eXquire, Despot group thing that is going on.

The Black and Brown EP is pretty much great.

He recently released a new album with his 'group' called Bruiser Brigade, I didnt really care all that much for what i heard.

Shapey Fiend

He's ousted MF Doom as my favourite rapper. XXX got a least a couple of hundred spins last year.

His delivery can be a bit hard to grasp initially but when his main influences are E-40 and Dizzee Rascal it starts to make more sense. In terms of bars and storytelling nobody can touch him at the moment. He's also got immaculate beat selection.

Pretty sure Bruiser Brigade only brought out an EP with a couple of tracks on it. I'd have high hopes for the album Chips and Dopehead are deadly. They've a new guy ZelooperZ and he potentially out weirds Danny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxLwLG0EsvI

You can label him as a hipster if you want but he's got a strong basis in independent Detroit boom bap hip hop. He was getting a lot of hype in non-hipstery indie rap circles a couple of years ago when Detroit State of Mind 4 and The Hybrid came out before Pitchfork latched on to him. I wouldn't argue he isn't courting that crowd of course but I think he does it because it comes naturally rather than in a cynical way. You could aim the same accusations at ASAP Rocky, Action Bronson or even Freddie Gibbs. Hipsters are the mainstream now. That's how Kendrick Lamar manages to sell 250k albums in a weekend.

mufcboy1999

My impression of hipsters are the lads who wear the skin tight jeans and extra extra small tshirts I.e a Lil Wayne ?

FJamel

Danny Brown makes great music. Dude's flow and delivery is so unique. If you're a younger dude it might be hard to catch the **** he references, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZQXDEQGeT0

The entire interview is jokes.

Shapey Fiend

mufcboy1999 wrote: »

My impression of hipsters are the lads who wear the skin tight jeans and extra extra small tshirts I.e a Lil Wayne ?

Lil Wayne is about 5ft tall and 8 stone. He looks far less ridiculous in extra small than he did in in the XL white tee look previously. Danny Brown is part Filipino and I'd say much the same thing. The guy is like 9 stone max.

Look at the early NWA pics they're all wearing medium-ish and drainpipe jeans. In the black community the more gangster you are the more 'gay' you can dress and not have anybody try to kill you. That's why pimps wore all that crazy Rick Flair ****. The whole idea that being dressed a bit flamboyantly = the person being soft is a massive misconception.

Plumpynutt

LUPE wrote: »

Honestly don't see the fuss. His XXX album was meant to be the best of last year. I've listened to it three or four times straight through and its barely decent, its a difficult listen tbh.

Couple of good verses here and there, otherwise he's pure hipster hype

Fact. A mate of mine tried to get me into him for months, finally sat down with him to listen through one of his albums (can't remember which) and it was dire, could only manage about half of it

Shreddeez

I heard him on the freshman cypher and he didnt do much for me , but then i heard him as a feature on Lords never worry, and on a Pusha T track, and he wasnt too bad ? He's different from everyone else though that for sure

conor.hogan.2

XXX won me over to him, his feature on Royalty piqued my interest enough to buy this album.

Kylo Ren

He's an absolute legend. 'Grown Up' was my favorite music video of the year too.

GodlessInfidel

he is by and large a very talented lyricist and is bringing alot of originality and uniqueness to todays hip hop which i respect him for...

great to see rap evolve again after years of stagnation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTKI2SjX44w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYG0t2oIfC4

Shapey Fiend

Dudes going all out on the Dizzee Rascal type stuff.
https://soundcloud.com/xdannyxbrownx/trampy-featuring-danny-brown

Nice to see someone pick up on that buzz. His double time isn't quite as clean but the beat on that's bananas.