Freeway and Danny Brown take FADER along for quick, candid trips through their respective stomping grounds of Philly and Detroit and down memory lane for the latest in the mag’s “Uncapped” video series. Read the rest of this entry »

Never really been a big Kid Sister fan, myself. Yet, despite having some select songs that make you want to punish your brain with Q-tips, you can’t really knock a hot chick who can rap relatively well. Let alone, when she’s got Fool’s Gold brethren Danny Brown on board this scrolling video for her “Gucci Rag Top” remix, rapping about speakers beating up backseat passengers “like Emmit Till.” Read the rest of this entry »

The self-proclaimed “flyest Negroes of America,” also known as Black Milk and Danny Brown, offer up a Gerard Victor-directed video for the title track of their joint EP. Fans can buy Black And Brown in multiple places, like Amazon, iTunes and there’s CD and vinyl are available too. Just make to buy the shit.

A couple of Detroit’s finest musicians got color coordinated on Black Milk’s Album of the Year, and when ni@@s done started something, you know they have to finish. With Black’s brains on the beats and Danny’s brain on drugs, the two give the fans a little fix with their Black And Brown EP. Read the rest of this entry »

Quelle Chris and Danny Brown make a formidable Motor city pair that takes the title “Detroit Rock City” literally. The two – with the assistance of Roc Marciano – drop “Shotgun,” a single off Chris’ upcoming Shotgun & Sleek Rifle project. Read the rest of this entry »

Nashville had an entertaining week from Sunday, October 9th to Sunday, October 16th and experienced great live performances due to tour routing that led to several Hip-Hop acts converging on the city in a seven day span. One Sunday saw our LivexDirectTN stage – a merger of the Hip-Hop & Love (Murs, tabi Bonney, Ski Beatz, e. al.) and L-R-Generations (9th Wonder, Freddie Gibbs, etc.) tours – followed by a Thursday night show featuring Das Racist and Danny Brown Read the rest of this entry »

Two Pennsylvania men stole a whole bridge. Yes, a whole bridge. Read the rest of this entry »

There are a lot of classifications for the word “drug.” Substances we as humans use on the daily such as nicotine, caffeine and aspirin all fall under that label. But since Roach Gigz is a Bay Area, nonstop partygoer, rap-n-roller, it should probably come quite clear exactly what type of drugs he’s talking about. Read the rest of this entry »

For “Zap,” Danny Brown & Black Milk each do what they do best, which is Danny rapping about pills and broads while coasting over a Frank Zappa sample courtesy of Black. Read the rest of this entry »

Danny Brown takes a break from XXX‘s clean sounds on “Brown Eyes” to rhyme over a raw beat reminiscent of his Hot Soup days. Your boy’s still irreverent and eccentric compared to the relatively dialed back delivery he used to have. Read the rest of this entry »

“F*ck a blog, f*ck a meeting, f*ck an A&R, F*ck a cosign, motherf*cker, f*ck it all.”

Way back before images & nepotism dominated the game, rap picked its best artists based upon how well they could actually string together words. Obviously, said time was before people watched videos and then opened another browser window to Karmaloop to score the same gear they just saw. Read the rest of this entry »

Too old to blame mistakes on youth, but frequently too young to reach the lofty goals set in one’s optimistic teens and twenties, young adults turning thirty often find themselves at a crossroads somewhere between self-reflection and suffocating depression. For many artists approaching this age, the weight of success (see: the “27 Club”) or lack thereof (see: millions) is too heavy to bear. Read the rest of this entry »

With another month in the books, we open our playlists to share the songs that provided the fuel for August. Read the rest of this entry »

Danny Brown is off his rocker and he’s definitely on point as a rapper. Already having solidified himself as possibly the wittiest, lewd pundit Detroit newjack, he’s upping his rating, striping the censorship and gotten nastier, more filthy and simply even better with his new free album, XXX. Read the rest of this entry »

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What Jay-Z, Rihanna, and White Girl Mob Have in Common [The Urban Daily] Read the rest of this entry »