Evan Nabavian only drives drunk on Wednesdays. On “The D.U.I. Song” Starlito narrates a night that begins with a few beers and ends wrapped around a telephone pole. He makes the Saved by the Bell reference before you can, and the characters, plot, and setting reveal a deft storyteller with a firm grasp of narrative. Starlito […]

Son Raw makes 2 Live Crew look like some Mormons. Danny Brown ended XXX with a pained howl that would have made a fitting epigraph had drugs, violence or jail snuffed out his promising rap career. Thing is, that didn’t happen. Against all odds, the skinny jeans-wearing backpack-rapper with a blown out haircut and encyclopedic […]

‘Because I’m 32, I know how to do my drugs.” Danny Brown, a role model for us all. Skinny Friedman, a friend of this site and a friend to felines everywhere, similarly understands the merits of the Hybrid. As a result, he has compiled Extra Pills, a collection of Danny Brown loosies that should sound […]

Danny Brown: the only rapper to make a molly song that references “Da Dip” and Mac Dre’s thizz face. To quote Son Raw: he sounds like the only rapper who has ever actually done molly. And Skyywalker sounds like the only producer who has done molly. I also anticipate this being a major anthem for […]

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 […]

The Old Documentary from Daniel Sewell on Vimeo. This documentary was filmed back in the Hot Soup Days, when Danny Brown still had braids and was mumbling lines about walking 20 miles for a Cheesecake. Even then, he was spitting hot fire. UOENO. Or maybe you did. Maybe I should stop using acronyms. If you’re […]

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 […]