[Album] Danny Brown - Old

[dubsmith_nz]

It's never been just about the music. Like I said, when rap first started, Herc, Hollywood, Bambaataa, Flash, etc rocked their neighborhoods. To be a rapper is to be an MC which is a microphone controller, a person to rock the crowd and tell you how it is on their side of things. The D never endorsed these guys, they built their own scene and circle jerked. White boy critics and backpackers want it to be about "the music" with no context.


Honestly, I'm bored. Old Side B is cool and Danny Brown is what he is. If you think he is the best rapper right now and cranking out AOTY, good for you.



I think after Dilla died his legend grew in the D as a way to pay respect. I can't ever recall hearing his music or name growing up in on the Westside from 90-98. My cousins and friends out there have never mentioned him, they probably know his name but none of his music. Like I said, Detroit street rap gets WAY more love than the conscious stuff. They just don't have the vehicle or charisma of a city like Atlanta to overshadow the conscious stuff, so thats the stuff Internet nerds and backpackers get exposed to.

Tell me breh, how are cats like Marv Won and Guilty Simpson looked at through you and your homies eyes? What about Proof or Mr Porter? Genuinely interested.

 

[Big Mel]

Sydney is a predictable troll. I'll answer for him. CAC darling hipster acts.

 

[Piff Perkins]

I'm so confused tho...

Why doesn't Detroit fukk with Black Milk and Elzhi and them? Because they don't make street music or what?

Detroit doesn't support it's scene, period. Detroit didn't fukk with Dilla or Slum Village much, hence why Dilla moved to LA; now everyone wants to cosign Dilla with him in the grave. Same thing happened with Houseshoes, who is now living in LA working with west cost artists and DJing.

Eminem didn't get local love until he blew up. Royce didn't get a whole lot of love when he started bubbling with the Bar Exams. Elzhi doesn't have much of a career due to his lack of output, but it's also due to him being from a city that doesn't really have an active scene.

Detroit has two of the best producers in hip hop, Black Milk and Apollo Brown, yet neither gets much love nor are they out there finding local talent. Same with Danny Brown's Detroit producers, they aren't getting love.

now Boldy James is working with Alchemist, in LA. Basically the last two decades of Detroit music is based on nikkas going to Cali to find love.

 

[Poitier]

Tell me breh, how are cats like Marv Won and Guilty Simpson looked at through you and your homies eyes? What about Proof or Mr Porter? Genuinely interested.

Before my time. All them cats yall mentioning are respected, but I'm young so there is a disconnect. Nobody in their 20s really rocking with it like that. I've never heard no one mention them when I'm up there. All the OGs played down South and Westcoast stuff for the majority of the 90s when I was there: Cash Money, No Limit, Eazy E, Cube, Bone, etc

The Dilla scene was very insular. I think that has partially to do with Detroit infrastructure and the inability to push Detroit artist and unite the D.

No shade to Proof, Mr. Porter, all them Stones Throw cats because I think they're unabashedly Detroit. Danny Brown gets love from that camp but I can't group him in with them due to the age gap. He closer to my age group but riding the coattails of older cats to gain favor. At least the older dudes cultivated their own thriving scene, what has Danny Brown done? Then to go out diss other commercial Detroit acts like he aint the same thing. How his own age group and peers in the city don't fukk with him? His biggest fans are well off Internet users and underaged Caucasian girls?

 

[Big Mel]

Danny Brown is 32.

Talk about how there WAS a hip hop scene in Detroit with Maurice Malone (I had his jeans with the white label on the cuff) and how once YOUR BOY sold out the game went sour and now it is what it is.

 

[Poitier]

Danny Brown is 32.

Talk about how there WAS a hip hop scene in Detroit with Maurice Malone (I had his jeans with the white label on the cuff) and how once YOUR BOY sold out the game went sour and now it is what it is.

 

[Big Mel]

that smiley always skeeved me out. he appears to be ejaculating. vile.

 

[Roaden Polynice]

Why is this so fukking long?

27 tracks long and shyt, I'm fukking out

 

[Big Mel]

Detroit doesn't support it's scene, period. Detroit didn't fukk with Dilla or Slum Village much, hence why Dilla moved to LA; now everyone wants to cosign Dilla with him in the grave. Same thing happened with Houseshoes, who is now living in LA working with west cost artists and DJing.

Eminem didn't get local love until he blew up. Royce didn't get a whole lot of love when he started bubbling with the Bar Exams. Elzhi doesn't have much of a career due to his lack of output, but it's also due to him being from a city that doesn't really have an active scene.

Detroit has two of the best producers in hip hop, Black Milk and Apollo Brown, yet neither gets much love nor are they out there finding local talent. Same with Danny Brown's Detroit producers, they aren't getting love.

now Boldy James is working with Alchemist, in LA. Basically the last two decades of Detroit music is based on nikkas going to Cali to find love.

hence CALTROIT. Man i've been out in hollywood and bumped into Karriem Riggins multiple times. The whole Dilla camp pretty much moved west.

 

[Poitier]

Why is this so fukking long?

27 tracks long and shyt, I'm fukking out

Just listen to Side B

 

[Roaden Polynice]

Just listen to Side B

I already deleted it

 

[Barmelo Xanthony]

320kb link in my profile

 

[JulesWinfield]

Bout to press play for the second time

 

[whatthatthangsmelllike]

I'm feeling this

 

[ManBearPig]

that urbanlinkz bullshyt keeps freezing my computer.

just send my the "fill in the blank"