Danny Brown - The Hybrid

blastmaster · Post by **blastmaster** » Fri Dec 24, 2010 7:53 pm

vinylpops wrote: And is that Hawaiian Snow album any good?

Tony's smooth effortlessness really makes Danny's style seem somewhat amateurish with all the breathing issues and widely spaced out bars. I liked it though!

DLG · Post by **DLG** » Fri Dec 24, 2010 8:15 pm

lol

danny and the lil b verse are the only positive points of the album.

the beats and yayo sound effortless, in the sense that not a lot of effort was put into them.

blastmaster · Post by **blastmaster** » Fri Dec 24, 2010 8:33 pm

Man Crush Goggles: ON wrote:lol

danny and the lil b verse are the only positive points of the album.

the beats and yayo sound effortless, in the sense that not a lot of effort was put into them.

HubertGAM · Post by **HubertGAM** » Tue Dec 28, 2010 10:53 pm

It's pretty awesome to see the Detroit homey getting a 7-page thread about him on here. While he may hate to read some of the stuff in this thread like the fact that I feel Hot Soup [with producer Nick Speed] is better than The Hybrid, this is a testament of how real his buzz is. I hope he finds a way to run 2011.

vinylpops · Post by **vinylpops** » Sat Jan 01, 2011 7:39 pm

blastmaster wrote:
vinylpops wrote: And is that Hawaiian Snow album any good?
Tony's smooth effortlessness really makes Danny's style seem somewhat amateurish with all the breathing issues and widely spaced out bars. I liked it though!

Just wanted to come back and say that Hawaiian Snow was fuckin' great.

DLG · Post by **DLG** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 5:08 pm

CHANCE RANDOM · Post by **CHANCE RANDOM** » Thu Jan 06, 2011 5:31 pm

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Damn. Danny is a real ass dude. Made a few very good points.

GM Dizzy Skillespie · Post by **GM Dizzy Skillespie** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 2:36 am

"we the guys trying to end hair metal in rap" - well done mr. brown.

really wish I'd done that interview with him in december now that goddamn fader has one.
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but a good look for him, hopefully it means he blows up instead of missing the large indie cred he deserves.

self · Post by **self** » Fri Jan 07, 2011 11:21 am

I'm happy for the gawd

perlman · Post by **perlman** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 8:46 pm

Riding on 7 mile and Conant in Detroit while blasting The Hybrid is a good time. Everyone knows what it is over there. Great rapper, but his grill is fucked up.

Employfree · Post by **Employfree** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 9:09 pm

perlman wrote:Riding on 7 mile and Conant in Detroit while blasting The Hybrid is a good time. Everyone knows what it is over there. Great rapper, but his grill is fucked up.

Have you touched penises other than your own?

ardamus · Post by **ardamus** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 9:17 pm

self wrote:I'm happy for the gawd

you ever tried to get on a track with this cat?

Hair of the Dog · Post by **Hair of the Dog** » Sun Jan 09, 2011 12:59 am

I just realized that Danny Brown was on that "Fire" remix from "the Preface." I'm pretty sure I never paid much attention to his verse either until I gave into the hype. Glad I did. He has an ODB-like presence on a posse track.

CHANCE RANDOM · Post by **CHANCE RANDOM** » Sun Jan 09, 2011 1:05 am

Hair of the Dog wrote:I just realized that Danny Brown was on that "Fire" remix from "the Preface." I'm pretty sure I never paid much attention to his verse either until I gave into the hype. Glad I did. He has an ODB-like presence on a posse track.

"Fire up the blunt and it taste like gumbo/Hit the trees hard like George in the jungle"

Yeah, he kills that shit.

Brougham33 · Post by **Brougham33** » Sun Jan 09, 2011 10:58 am

Hair of the Dog wrote:I just realized that Danny Brown was on that "Fire" remix from "the Preface." I'm pretty sure I never paid much attention to his verse either until I gave into the hype. Glad I did. He has an ODB-like presence on a posse track.

Brougham33 · Post by **Brougham33** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:11 pm

Good read:

http://www.cocaineblunts.com/blunts/?p=6646

Danny Brown is a very talented rapper from Detroit. His The Hybrid was one of last years strongest mixtapes and heגs currently preparing an Itunes rerelease with bonus tracks for Feb. 8th. Rather than do the regular straight forward new rapper Q&A, I sat down with him to talk about rap, music and rap music for the latest installment in CBגs TALKS ABOUT RAP series.

What was your first rap tape?
Kid N Play 2 Hype. I bought it from the gas station for ten bucks. I had young parents. My pops had me he was 16, my moms was 18 so he always listened to [rap]. He was a house DJ too and I always had that house and techno. Being from Detroit thatגs like our little underground scene, thatגs our world. It was always Ghettotech around. But he always had the little hip hop tapes here and there [too], he had a wide range of what heגd listen to. He was bumping Ice-T for a minute and then it went to NWA and all that shit and then before you know it changed to Tribe Called Quest. By the time Tribe Called Quest came around I was old enough to start buying shit for myself. I think that the first tape that I got into on my own was Spice 1. I didnגt know that type of hip hop existed, Bay Area hip hop. I was listening to West Coast shit but it wasnגt Bay shit and for some reason when I heard that Spice 1 shit I knew there was something out there that was different. Thatגs what the independent scene was to me at the time, the Bay shit. In the Bay niggas had like 415 and Richie Rich so I was just getting into that type of shit. And then from there thatגs when the whole Death Row shit came around. And then once I heard Wu-Tang it was over with. Thatגs when CDs first came out. My pops bought me my first Wu-Tang CD Enter The 36 Chambers. Then I got into Nas. Then came the whole Rawkus stage, then like Slum Village as Detroit hip hop started progressing and getting recognized. I was into that because that was hometown shit. But then after that stage I was into Def Jux, I got into it from Rawkus, listening to a lot of Rawkus shit. Then from the Def Jux stage it went over to the London shit, I started listening to a lot of Grime and a lot of Dubstep because I was influenced from the techno and the house shit from when I was younger. So I easily gravitated to that. And after that? I was doing hip hop on my own. So I guess I just got influenced by all that shit I just named.

Yeah you just about ran down the last twenty years of hip hop completely.
[Laughs]
So letגs start with the Bayג¦
Yeah E-40גs like my top favorite rapper, top three alive, dead, whatever. E-40 taught me so much shit. His new album is amazing. I hope Iגm that cool when I get to be his age. But Spice 1, E-40, a lot of the underground ones Mac Mall, C-Bo and then I started getting into like all that Brotha Lynch Hung shit. All that Sick Wid It shit though, I remember they used to bring out ill compilations and shit. So the Bay got a huge influence on me.

It seems like a lot of the more animated aspects of your rapping, the things you do with your voice, draws on that Bay shit.
Yeah for sure itגs definitely some Bay shit. Listen to somebody like Roach Gigz right now, itגs the same shit. I wanna work with that kid. He can rap!

Why do you think, outside of Pac, the Bay has never really been able to cross over on a mainstream level?
Because they doing it independent. I donגt think thatגs their intentions. I mean I donגt know that but from the outside looking in I feel like they feel thatגs theyגre shit.I donגt know if itגs like this anymore but I used to hear stories that they was making hundreds of thousands just with no record label. Thatגs something to look up to. You can get signed to a deal and go through that record label bullshit and motherfuckers are telling you how to make records, and motherfuckers are picking your records for you. Motherfuckers just making their version of what you are. Theyגre making what they think will sell because they invested in that. To [independent rappers] itגs more pure because itגs them doing them and doing what they want to do. And people gravitate to that and they buy it. Look at somebody like Mac Dre, these guys made a lot of money by themselves and people still love the music. I donגt know. I donגt know what people look at as mainstream anymore. I think the lines got blurred. I understand what youגre saying but to me they did do it. Spice 1? He did it! I donגt about right now, a lot of the younger guys arenגt making the music that them guys is making, the caliber of it. I know times is changing and thereגs new shit going on but we liked the Mob music shit. So Hyphy, when it got to that shit, thatגs their own world. Thatגs just like us with Techno, you know? [It's like] if niggas started rapping off Ghettotech beats and shit, which probably some niggas need to do out here. It might be our own scene out here and other people might not be able to get that shit. I think E-40 though he do the hyphy shit the best. Because itגs lyrical now. Itגs some party shit so it ainגt really that [lyrical]. I mean I know Mistah Fab can rap and itגs a couple, like I said Roach Gigz but [otherwise] it donגt really seem too lyrical to me, itגs some party shit.

Well they also have like Jacka and Livewire out there.
But they donגt really do Hyphy. Jackaגs like the Bay Area Nas or something. Now Droop-E, I like Droop-E like a motherfucker. I guess it run in the family.

Then of course thereגs Lil B, who youגve worked with. Howגd you get put up on him?
I got up on Lil B from The Pack and shit. I listened to the Pack. Everybody got up on him with the גVansג song. So I always used to see him release little music on his own and shit. I remember he did the shit with Young L, though I never was really checking that shit out or nothing. Then I was just chilling one night, it was late, you know, one of them nights when youגs bored and youגre searching on the internet and ainגt really shit popping, you canגt really go to sleep. I was up smoking and I was on World Star Hip Hop and I come across the גLike A Martianג video and for some reason, man, it bothered me. It mustגve bothered me in a good way! I didnגt really take to the song like that or take to the lyrics but I donגt know, thereגs something about the whole shit. Like גManג¦ is this guy on drugs?! I donגt know.ג I just knew it was something there though. The next day I was chilling with my homie, we were smoking and I was like גyo I seen this crazy shit yesterday!ג [Laughs] I showed him and he was like גWhat the fuck!?ג and I think we watched it like 5 times straight. And ever since then Iגve just been fucking with his shit hard. I knew it was something there. Thatגs all I knew.

What do you think it is about his personality?
Personality wise, when I met him.. I donגt want to say it was the total opposite of what the music presents but in some sense itגs kinda like that. A lot of people probably listen to his shit and they probably wouldnגt think heגs the type of guy that he is. When I met him he was super humble, heגs super nice, you could tell heגs been raised. Heגs just got manners about himself and heגs a real cool person. At the end of the day just getting to know him and seeing what kind of guy he is itגs like how can you hate on a person like that? Ainגt no hate in him. Heגs just all positive. He got an ill sense of humor and thatגs what the music is projecting more than anything I think.

When you see what heגs doing does that change the way you approach your own music?
No. It just let me know what I was doing was kinda right. Because what I was doing, it was always shock value in it in some sense. It was always shock value going on in my everyday life though, I just figured out a way to exploit it a little more for humor purposes. But yeah to see a person like him, I think he know how nice he is and he know heגs not getting the respect for how nice he really is and then he just did something to get your attention. And now that he got your attention heגs gonna show you the lyrical shit. For him to figure out that strategy that was kinda ill. I donגt know if he thought like that but itגs almost like גIגm gonna write the worst rap I can possibly write and you still gonna like that and when I am writing raps for you to like youגre gonna like that too!ג I donגt think no other rapper could do that. Because weגre so caught up in being rappers and trying to be nice and everything you say is better than the next man. For a person like him to be like גIגm just gonna say what the fuck I wantג and thatגs it, you gonna love it. Because of the confidence of the rapper presenting it to you. גAnd I can rap, so when itגs time for me to show you I can rap Iגmma bust your ass.ג

What do you think it says that Bגs more ignorant records are the more popular ones so far?
I think as of right now theyגre the better records. Donגt get me wrong, he can do the other shit, youגll see glimpses of that. But I think just in terms of who he works with and what heגs working around the production value doesnגt measure out. Like when he does his East Coast shit itגs cool but the beats to me arenגt as good to me. I think once people realize that heגs super talented [it'll change]. Just imagine him getting a beat from DJ Premier or some shit. Itגll step up. But I think right now heגs not really getting beats from people thatגs capable of making that style of music. But lyrically I like both sides of him. I donגt think you can have one without the other. He changed the game, man. A lot of people are gonna be more open minded about shit. That niggaגs like the David Bowie of this shit right now. And heגs a music nerd himself, we can tell. Who else would rap over ambient, bro?! It takes a music nerd to do shit like that. And it comes across in his music. When I listen to Lil B I really think a lot of the shit is punk rock influenced like in the melodies he chooses. To me גLook Like Jesusג could totally be a punk rock song. Itגs just a different style of production. I could see a punk rock band covering that song and itגd be the shit! See thatגs what the kids are doing, theyגre taking more chances than the adults right now. The adults are more business minded. They was hating on the kids for so long and now the kids are busting they ass and they donגt know how to take it. Like with the whole Odd Future thing right nowג¦

Yeah they can rap their asses off.
Yeah respect due.

So going back to your timeline, how do you jump from the Bay to Rawkus?
That was just my hip hop timeline. My pops he trained me not to listen to just one genre of music so I was always listening to other shit. I was going through music phases just like everybody else who was a music nerd. I went through the whole grunge shit, I went through the whole Rage [Against The Machine] phase, I went through the whole Korn, System of a Down rap-rock shit. I went through those phases right along with the people that wasnגt listening to hip hop, all the way up to when they was bumping M.I.A. and shit like that. I was a music nerd bro. I studied all this shit instead of just one genre. Thatגs really how I run my shit. I run my shit more so like an indie rock artists than a rapper.

How did that play with other hip hop heads, if you were to bring around Korn or something?
You know, niggas ainגt fucking with it. Itגs the same shit though. These niggas donגt really understand what hip hop is supposed to be. Itגs just like my music. The people that fucked with all the shit I named and still branched out into all those other genres and shit, thatגs who fuck with my music. It ainגt the super hip hop heads who think hip hop is just supposed to be what it is. They think hip hop is supposed to sound the same way and itגs supposed to be what it was. Really I thought hip hop was supposed to be an expression of youth. If you just doing something thatגs true to yourself then thatגs hip hop.
Well you look Bambaaata who took music from all over the world and then somewhere down the line a rulebook came into play.
[It's] this East Coast boom bap shit. How you gonna say E-40גs not hip hop? Thereגs people who feel like that though!

And itגs crazy because if you go back you can find pictures of him head to toe in Adidas, busting B-Boy poses.
And not even that but like I said itגs an expression of yourself. He was doing something that no one else was doing. He was rapping off beats that no one else was. He was doing something thatגs so original and so ahead of his time. How can that not be hip hop? It was pure. If he had been trying to rap like Craig G or someone, been on some digging in the crates type shit, that wouldגve been fake. That wouldnגt have been hip hop. Thatגs whatגs so fucked up right now. New York, they created the rules of hip hop and now they the ones thatגs breaking them. They making the fake down south songs, theyגre doing anything to get hot. I ainגt trying to diss New York or whatever. I got love for New York and they got love for me too. But if you look at it thatגs kinda how it is. Itגs almost like they they alienating themselves from everybody else because they want the hits too and they tired of other people getting hits. So however the hits sounding, they gonna make the hits and they gonג force it. They gonna tell themselves that itגs a hit and itגs gonna be a hit out there too. Iגll be in New York and Iגll hear some shit thatגs popping [there], then I go back home and donגt nobody listen to that shit.

Yeah it seems like thereגs always like a Red Cafe or Fabolous record thatגs on the radio there and nowhere else.
Thatגs what Iגm saying. Thatגs the only time you hear it. But to them itגs big. You canגt tell them that thatגs not a hit. Like גno, man. Hip hop has changed and yגall donגt run shit no more!ג I donגt even care no more. Iגm at the shit where Iגm so comfortable, as long as I make good music Iגll be straight.

Top five rappers of all time?
Man I got so many lists. I guess Iגll just say the niggas that influenced me the most. It was Nas first, then like I said E-40, then itגd be Ghostface, then itגd be Dizzee Rascal and then itגll be MF Doom to top it off. Heגs bumping Andre 3000 out.

I actually get a lot of shit from my overseas readers about this but Iגve never gotten Dizzee and the whole grime thing.
A lot of people feel that way about it butג¦ I think Dizzeeג¦ I donגt know. Maybe he was just touching on the same shit that I was going through at the time and I related to him more so than his music and the music just went along with it. But he just talk about a lot of shit that I talk about too. I donגt know. That nigga like The Beatles to me. I think heגs so ahead lyrically and song structure wise in hip hop that heגll never get the props he deserves because America donגt really respect hip hop from another country like that. Song writing-wise heגs fucking over a lot of niggas. If you just read the words, heגs fucking over niggas, bruh. Heגs got a lot of strongs. I understand why people probably couldnגt get into the production or his accent or maybe they canגt get into it because heגs rapping in double time. But if people studied Dizzee Rascal theyגd know E-40 was his favorite rapper. He studied E-40.

Why do you think international rappers struggle to find audiences over here?
Iגm not saying it can never happen. Right now at the rate ears are changing and weגre getting more into world music and shit like that itגs becoming more and more possible. But before [grime] all their best people they presented to us, they were just making fake versions of what we was doing. They was just trying to do some American shit. And the ones that was doing progressive shit like Dizzee or The Streets it was too far ahead of its time for us to gravitate to. Like a Dizzee Rascal album never gets old. Like The Streets, A Grand Donגt Come For Free that album will never get old. They make timeless music. Where Americaג¦ I canגt put on a Lil Jon album [today]. I used to listen to that shit. Lil Jon ran the radio. But you just canגt put on no fucking Lil Jon album and bump that shit right now. Itגs so trendy over here.

I wonder if itגs just a matter of overexposure too. Like there was that one year where we heard nothing but Lil Jon.
You might be right. Because he still makes some incredible music but I donגt know. I just think we so trendy and we get burnt out so quick and we always looking for the next thing.

Well itגs scary. I look at whatגs happening with Odd Future and Iגm genuinely worried because those kids are so young and the hype is happening so quickly. The backlash seems inevitable.
Yeah [laughs]. Weגre pretty much just all watching that movie. We know how it goes. Itגs on them though. All they gotta do is make good music. We all in the same boat. All anybody gotta do is just make good music right now. I look at all of us like Odd Future, me, Lil B, Das Racist, Ninjasonik. Itגs all the same shit in some sense.

But none of you guys sound alike.
Thatגs the thing about it! Because itגs hip hop. We all doing whatגs pure to us. Everybody else is just doing what they think they need to be doing.

Is there anybody else youגre checking for currently?
I listen to all the new leaks and shit thatגs been coming out but it hasnגt really been nothing out that Iגve been fucking with besides Lil B and Odd Future. Iגve been going back and listening to old albums, Iגve been actually listening to like E-40 and Dizzee Rascal.

You heard the Kanye yet?
Yeah. I heard Kanyeגs album. Iגm too ADD for that. Six minute songs is not what Iגm trying to do right now. I canגt really get through it. Itגs cool though. Me personally, I think itגs his worst album. My favorite Kanye album is Late Registration so go figure. I actually like the Kid Cudi album more than I like Kanyeגs. People might criticize me for that but the thing is about Cudi is that he writes from almost a rock singer point of view. I donגt want to call it that but itגs almost white boy rap. Like how Linkin Park raps. And I think thatגs the genre that he wants. Heגs trying to take the Linkin Park fans. But because heגs got the swag he presents it the best way to me. So I can like that more so than I can like a Fort Minor album. If you listening to it from a hip hop nigga point of view like גyeah? this nigga גbout to bust some bars?ג then yeah [you're not gonna get it]. I know girls like him, thatגs all I know. [Laughs] He figured out something.

So letגs talk about Def Jux. I know theyגve maybe been unfairly written off in some circles.
I mean they closed it down. They wrote it off themselves. At the end of it the music wasnגt as good as it was in the beginning. I think after Def Jux it was Detroit hip hop to me. Thatגs what underground head turned to next. After the Def Jux wave we just turned to Madlib and Dilla. Itגs just like I said. At first [Def Jux] was hip hop and then they started making white boy rap.

It seems like Cannibal Ox was something of a missed opportunity.
Thereגs a story that go with that. Cannibal Ox did it to themselves. You canגt really blame the label. They put out a classic album and didnגt follow up.

Well I just mean it set such a high standard as the flagship release.
Yeah then it was placed on Aesopגs and El-Pגs shoulders. It started with Cannibal Ox. I donגt know. I think a lot of people forget shit or werenגt into shit but that album manג¦ If that album came out right now itגd be album of the year. If Def Jux was around right now the hype probably would be like it is right now with Odd Future. I think they dropped the ball with that Danny! album. Itגs amazing. Iגm on the album by the way, so of course iגm plugging it. If they wouldגve put that album out Def Jux wouldגve been rolling again. That wouldגve been the new Def Jux. Itגs supposed to reinvent itself. Even when they put out the Murs album. That nigga was popping in Cali forever. They really was doing shit for the underground. Right now it ainגt no underground hip hop label since thatגs done that.

Stones Throw maybe?
But Stones Throw is trying to be more on some hippie shit. If you see what they putting out now they not putting out no hip hop shit. Itגs almost like it was a phase for them. Itגs upsetting because itגs like they was riding the Dilla bandwagon but they not trying to keep the Dilla shit going. They jumped off it just like it was a trend or a phase or something. If you was really on the Dilla wagon, if you was really into Detroit hip hop like that then yגall would be progressing it. They would have the new Detroit artists thatגs popping. Iגm not trying to say myself because I donגt want to be on Stoneגs Throw but they should still have some type of connection with Detroit hip hop. They did they shit with Guilty [Simpson] but itגs supposed to still be going right now. Donגt just stop at Guilty. I guess they feel that was the last person Dilla cosigned so thatגs all they owe to it.

I wonder if itגs just easier for them to market a James Pants or whatever. The same thing that happened with Def Jux, these guys get in with the indie circle and get on the Pitchfork radar and then they slowly become their audience.
Yeah it gets to the point where even in their indie [world] they turn commercial. They forget how that shit happened. It [should be] about them putting out the dope shit that they want to put out. So what if one album did better than the other? Yגall want every album to do good now. I know every record company want to make money at the end of the day but Iגm just saying if I could just break even at the end of the year and everybody tight and weגd put out good music. I would love for Def Jux to be around and [I'd be] on Def Jux, but maybe itגs better that itגs not that way.

I saw Aesop championing The Hybrid on Twitter a while back.
Yeah. Think about something like that! That humbles me more than if Jay-Z told me my shitגs tight. Cגmon man! Bazooka Tooth?! Heגs like a lyricist of lyricists. That nigga is in his own ball game. No one is fucking with that dude. So for him to think Iגm nice?! I really must be nice! That gives me that type of confidence. Even with somebody like 50 Cent. You got 50 Cent saying Iגm nice in one corner, you got Aesop Rock saying Iגm nice in the other. That type of shit keep me going. So when niggas be telling me they donגt get the shit itגs all cool because thereגs people I never thought would get it thatגs getting it

Nav · Post by **Nav** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:19 pm

^^Whoa. A rapper that actually sounds good when talking about rap and his music taste. Surprised I am.

Jayou Ayen · Post by **Jayou Ayen** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:23 pm

Brougham33 wrote:Good read:

http://www.cocaineblunts.com/blunts/?p=6646

Blockhead is going to like the Aesop love, and ignore all the E-40 praise.
Interesting article, the guy really listened to a lot of shit.

At first [Def Jux] was hip hop and then they started making white boy rap.

39

DLG · Post by **DLG** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:33 pm

dude is cool as hell. period.

Blockhead · Post by **Blockhead** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:41 pm

Jayou Ayen wrote:
Brougham33 wrote:Good read:

http://www.cocaineblunts.com/blunts/?p=6646
Blockhead is going to like the Aesop love, and ignore all the E-40 praise.
Interesting article, the guy really listened to a lot of shit.

\

39

He also liked Korn, bro.
Doesn't make a difference what he likes as long as he continues to be dope.
I actually reached out to him a while back on myspace. He's a nice dude.
I offered him beats. No dice.
:fail:

Blockhead · Post by **Blockhead** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:23 pm

Also, this shit is awesome:
http://mp3.imposemagazine.com/Danny-Brown_Radiohead.mp3

self · Post by **self** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:26 pm

ardamus wrote:
self wrote:I'm happy for the gawd
you ever tried to get on a track with this cat?

to be honest it didnt pan out oh as well
who knows what the futur may bring

thats still the homie though all day, and im genuinely happy for him

self · Post by **self** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:47 pm

the homie sam produced radiohead

and as block said shits awesome

A Kid · Post by **A Kid** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 12:10 am

just heard Hawaiian Snow, shits awesome. fun album. beats are clean and Danny Brown kills it. Yayo got a few bars in there, im just glad he didnt yell alot like in the past.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 1:20 pm

two from the deluxe edition of hybrid

dick suck - meh
http://hulkshare.com/dzm4ugu0taj6

radio head - much better imo
http://usershare.net/vv2b3yvat0r8

Brougham33 · Post by **Brougham33** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 1:43 pm

Radio Head is great.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 1:45 pm

oh i didn't see radio head already posted above sorry for :lastweek:

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 4:04 pm

Unpopular opinion, but not feeling these two new songs, AT ALL. Not what I want to hear from him.

Reason · Post by **Reason** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 4:57 pm

DLG wrote:I think it's really no contest.

Freddie Gibbs will only get jocked to death by rappers that only look at technical aspects of rapping, and Freddie is indeed sick in every technical aspect of rapping but there is little original or interesting about him.

Danny has lyrics, he's funny, he writes good concept songs that aren't about stuff that's too played out, and even when he writes about played out shit it sounds fresh.

His voice can be annoying to people, but his energy is undeniable and rap needs more true characters like him.

I haven't stopped spinning the Hybrid since it came out. It's very, very good, from beats, to topics, lyrics, styles, flows, there is nothing out that sounds anything like him.

as much as i dig freddie gibbs for what he brings to the mic, i can't disagree with this

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:08 pm

Gibbs isn't even really that great technically, he's just pleasantly familiar. Vado, Tony Yayo and any number of non-descript goons could rap circles around him.

Danny Brown - The Hybrid

great rapper

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