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  Hear Danny Brown Reinvent Himself on Stoner Rap Single 'Change'

  September 12, 2012 – It's fitting that the latest Danny Brown track to his the blogosphere is called "Change," because it sounds nothing like the famously raunchy Detroit MC's usual fare. Instead of ratcheting up his voice to a vocal cord-splintering "whaaaa" (which we love), he adopts a heavy-lidded, deep-voiced contemplative flow to match the stoned beats of West Coast production pair Johnson&Johnson (Blu and Mainframe). …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Sherman Hemsley's Proto-Swag

  July 27, 2012 – Sherman Hemsley, best known for portraying George Jefferson on the television show The Jeffersons, died earlier this week. Hemsley twisted a white-created cipher of a character into something closer to a a living, breathing black dude. …
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  Danny Brown and AraabMuzik Show Off Ridiculous Talent on Impromptu 'Molly Ringwald'

  July 18, 2012 – "You can tell when people are making shit for you to like," Danny Brown said in an interview previewing his collaboration with producer AraabMuzik, "and I hate that." Instead, the XXX rapper and the walking MPC advertisement stay true to their respective styles on "Molly Ringwald," which surfaced in full last night. …
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  Gathering of the Juggalos 2012 Lineup: Reunited Geto Boys, Danny Brown, George Clinton

  July 16, 2012 – Woop woop! The greasepaint-and-Faygo bacchanal known as the 13th Annual Gathering of the Juggalos has finally announced the lineup for its lost-in-the-woods rapstravaganga. …
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  Danny Brown Brings Sublimely Potty-Mouthed Set to SPIN Roof

  June 28, 2012 – Last night, Danny Brown, still running on the momentum of last year's Fool's Gold-released XXX (SPIN's rap album of the year), performed on our office rooftop — a short set full of screaming-all-the-lyrics love and a fairly off-the-chain vibe for a SPIN Live event sponsored by Thrillist and Jack Threads. …
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  Mark McNairy Unveils Danny Brown-Enriched Lookbook for S/S '13

  June 27, 2012 – New York menswear designer Mark McNairy went buck on his latest line for S/S '13, melding dapper downtown weekend prints with a refined uptown streetwear mentality — a New Amsterdam, indeed. So who better to model but lookbook figurehead Danny Brown, the rapper and a fashion maven (witness his hashtag/rap ad-lib #style)? …
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  See Danny Brown Laugh His Way Around Bonnaroo's Tent City

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  See How Danny Brown Lost His Teeth in Giddy 'Grown Up' Video

  June 5, 2012 – Danny Brown has given us all another immaculate reason not to sleep on his euphoric free-download track "Grown Up." First posted online in March, the song sets sumptuously laid-back, organic-sounding production by Action Bronson collaborator Party Supplies beneath some of the XXX rapper's most introspective, instantly appealing lyrics yet. …
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  Rap Release of the Week: Skywlkr's 'Impressions'

  May 23, 2012 – Detroit producer Skywlkr, best known for his contributions to Danny Brown's XXX, has been releasing beat-tapes — actual cassette tapes — before every blissed-out beatmaker jumped on the post-Clams Casino instrumental mixtape bandwagon. In 2010, Skywlkr released Strawberry Cough and following the success of XXX, he pressed-up a sequel, Blueberry Cough. …
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  Danny Brown Raps Over J Dilla's Beats on 'Jay-Dee's Revenge'

  May 10, 2012 – While some deceased music luminaries — well, so far just Tupac — rejoin us in hologram form, others endure in the form of their record collections. That includes the late British DJ John Peel, whose vast trove is gradually going online, or the late rapper/producer James "J Dilla" Yancey, whose personal crates were said to be on sale at a Detroit-area record store. …
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