| The 50 Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2012 (#25-1) | December 18, 2012 |
Previously: Passion of the Weiss Top 50 Hip Hop Songs, 2012 (#50-26) Passion of the Weiss Top Hip Hop Songs — 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 25. Azealia Banks – “1991” As much as Azealia Banks’s Twitter is the worst thing on the internet and the blogosphere’s obsession with her Twitter is the second […]
| Leading From Behind: Danny Brown’s “WitIt’ | October 24, 2012 |
Danny Brown enters the trap: not just your trapper’s trap, but also your favorite British DJ’s trap. This was the only logical conclusion considering The Hybrid is basically the American Dizzee Rascal and he once made a video called “Gypped by a Crackhead.” This doesn’t feel like appropriation of a trend, it feels like natural […]
| Danny Brown vs. The Juggalos vs. Purity Ring vs. Trap | October 10, 2012 |
Son Raw is bringing back crunk. Danny Brown is perhaps the only person on earth who could release a collabo with a pair of living, breathing, American Apparel manikins AND a video detailing his trip to the Gathering of the Juggalos within the same 24 hour period. While I’m more disturbed by the former (at […]
| Danny Brown x Johnson&Johnson change | September 12, 2012 |
Son Raw sees no changes, all he sees is racist faces…wrong song. Just when you thought Danny Brown had gone off a molly fueled deep end in his recent Darq E. Freaker and Araabmuzik collaborations, comes this throwback jam (from 2009? 2010) over this Blu & Mainframe beat. It reminds you that he’s always been […]
| You Watching Like the Other Four Lakers on the Court: Danny Brown & House Shoes’ ‘Sweet’ | September 4, 2012 |
Danny Brown subtly breaking down the potential for problems between Kobe and Dwight Howard. Between this and “Grown Up,” the Hybrid has starred in two of the best videos of the year and he doesn’t even have a new album out. Impressive. Don’t sleep on House Shoes either. He is one of the most quotable […]
| The Alfred E. Neuman Rap of A$AP Mob’s “Lords Never Worry” | August 28, 2012 |
Lords Never Worry finally drops, boasting the least Jewish name for a rap record since Nigga Please. I am of the Semitic mindset that worrying is often a supremely effective artistic technique. It forces you to quit or improve. But rap and writing are wholly different entities. Drake is the most neurotic rapper of all-time […]
| Danny Brown, The Black Brad Pitt | August 7, 2012 |
Max Bell does not go to sleep with pictures of a Porsche on his wall. My walls still have Michael Jordan posters all over them. John Stockton and Magic Johnson too. Yes, I wanted to play in the NBA. No, it didn’t happen. But Danny Brown has better dreams. He goes to sleep with porn stars […]
| Veneers in a Few Years: Dear Danny Brown | July 26, 2012 |
There is not much that can be done writing-wise to enhance the hilarity of this Danny Brown Noisey segment, where the Hybrid answers questions from YouTube commenters. It starts with him debating the pros of obese women, includes the most well-constructed argument for responsible drug use since Tim Leary, and ends with him discussing dental […]
There’s a variety of ways to evaluate rap music. You can break it down based on beat, flows, lyrics,or quality of engineering. You can measure it strictly on whether bangs in your car or not. Or you can get abstract and try to postulate about how much it contributes to the evolution of the genre. […]
| Danny Brown & Araabmuzik: huge John Hughes fans. | July 18, 2012 |
Don’t get it twisted, Son Raw hasn’t seen Molly in a minute. Quick history lesson: back when E was all the rage in Europe, rave music became increasingly frenetic, euphoric and (let’s face it) cheesy. Everyone knows that part of the story, but what happens next is the real interesting bit: as the drug addicted […]
