#20 Danny Brown - XXX (Thirty)
Genre: Hip-Hop
*First off, the production on this record is sick, It would still make this list if it was just an instrumental hip-hop record.*
Wow, this album took me by surprise! I'm surprised I even gave it a try let alone was able to get all the way through it. I'm so glad I did. It was so highly recommended among the music reviewing community and they all would say the same thing. You gotta listen to it front to back for it to reveal its positive attributes. So I stuck with it. They were so right. It split perfectly in half, where the first half is all about typical rap stereotype content. Fucking, partying, drugs, violence, same garbage that usually keeps me avoiding the genre. But the joke is on the listener when you realize that Danny is being sarcastic and the album is actually about the pitfalls and consequences of this life style. He talks about his family and friends completely destroying themselves and how broken he is from this. He even changes his voice to play these two very different characters. At first Danny sounds like a complete douchebag tool rapping with a krunk, nasaly annoying inflection. As the album progresses he seems to keep getting wiser and his voice deepens and he has smarter things to say. It all gets tied together in the last song "30" where his two alter ego are basically battling it out, like his wiser 30 year old self is trying to suppress his XXX-minded younger self. It's a very climactic ending. Excellent Album. If you haven't heard this yet, stick with it. Don't be put off by his voice, you get used to it and it gets better. Relax through the first half and have a sense of humor at the absolutely hilarious one-liners like, "OH BABY I LIKE IT RAW AN' MY DICK SO BIG LEFT STRETCH MARKS ON HER JAW." Danny even gives us a very detailed, and hopefully useful to some, cunnilingus lesson on the track I Will.
It will all sum up to be a very rewarding listen, then you can go back and enjoy the stupid tracks with confidence knowing they are just part of a bigger picture. OH...BTW it's totally free!!! Get it here. http://www.foolsgoldrecs.com/xxx/
Favorite Tracks: Die Like a Rockstar, Monopoly, Blunt After Blunt, 30
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