“Danny Brown tangles with time and temptation on Quaranta”
“The Detroit rapper’s first solo album in four years is a mark of growth, healing and retrospect.”
“Listening to Danny Brown is like listening to a version of hip hop’s entire history. Coming of age in the era of wordsmith MCs and boundless producers, the acclaimed Detroit rapper is finishing off experiments that stretch back decades to pioneering 20th century visionaries such as Eric B & Rakim, Wu Tang Clan and Mobb Deep. Brown swaps Kung-Fu samples for video game snippets and substitutes these”
“The wild card Detroit rapper confronts his demons without losing his musical stride”
“With an uncharacteristically somber tone, the Detroit rapper's sixth album is his most introspective and confessional work to date.”
“To paraphrase psych-rockers Spacemen 3, 42-year-old rapper Danny Brown loves taking drugs to make music about taking drugs. However, his compulsion collapsed into addiction after lockdown and a painful breakup, and Brown went into rehab to get sober. Quaranta (Italian for 40) was recorded in the maw of his illness yet it’s a hard stare in the mirror, something Brown’s always been brilliant at. “Th”
