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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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  MCA Remembered by Danny Brown, Action Bronson, eXquire and the New Rap Underground

  May 4, 2012 – Beat-reversing, 808-abusing, sample-stacking, pop-culture-flipping models of the alternative spirit, the Beastie Boys have influenced generation after generation of rappers. The young bucks in the New Hip-Hop Underground don't even know a time when the trio wasn't rhyming and stealing on MTV. We asked a few for their thoughts and remembrances... Danny Brown "I was super influenced by their music. …
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  Danny Brown and Darq E Freaker Finally Unite on 'Blueberry (Pills & Cocaine)'

  April 30, 2012 – South London grime producer Darq E Freaker has been around for a hot minute — check the beat he did for 2009’s Tempa T crucial cut "Next Hype" — but it wasn’t until early last year that his sound really began to ignite. …
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  HARD Summer Fest Lineup: Skrillex, Bloc Party, James Murphy, and Many More

  April 24, 2012 – This year's HARD Summer festival in downtown Los Angeles grabbed so many talents, its organizers had to add a second date to what has been, for the past four years, a one-day blowout. This time, HARD touches down August 3-4, and invites Skrillex back as a main headliner with Bloc Party and a Miike Snow live set filling out the top slots. …
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  Record Store Day's Top Five Rap Releases

  April 20, 2012 – As Phillip over at Control Voltage observed, Record Store Day doesn't tend to be too exciting for fans of stuff that doesn't have guitars. And Record Store Day has a particularly dicey relationship with rap music. …
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  Danny Brown Acts His Age on Gorgeous 'Grown Up'

  March 23, 2012 – When Danny Brown turned 31 earlier this month, the occasion marked a bigger milestone than it would for most people. Brown's 2011 breakthrough, XXX, alluded to his then-age of 30 in its title as well as in its opening and closing tracks. …
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  Watch Danny Brown's 'Radio Song': More Radio-Ready Than You Think

  March 14, 2012 – Danny Brown's "Radio Song" received its own video yesterday, not coincidentally the same day the ridiculously distinctive Detroit rapper released a deluxe edition of last year's tour de force XXX (more on that album, our favorite rap album of 2011, here). This anti-commercial song and anti-commercial video actually make a paradoxically great case for buying XXX, now available with three new tracks. …
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  Das Racist's Heems Drops 'Nehru Jackets' Mixtape

  January 17, 2012 – Das Racist's Himanshu Suri has finally dropped his free Nehru Jackets mixtape, released in partnership with awareness-raising Queens group SEVA NY. Produced entirely by Heems' longtime pal Mike Finito, the tape follows Kool A.D.'s mischievously hard-partying The Palm Wine Drinkard as the second of a planned three mixtapes from the New York rap trio (yes, hypeman Ashok "Dapwell" Kondabolu will apparently be dropping a tape of his own). …
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