“Danny Brown sounds rejuvenated on uknowhatimsayin¿”
“The Detroit rapper returns with a slower, more empathetic release”
“On his fifth album, executive-produced by Q-Tip, Danny Brown ascends to a sort of hip-hop classicist nirvana and remains one of the most inventive and dimensional rappers working today.”
“For the most part, uknowhatimsayin¿ is an amusingly subversive update on some classic rap formulas.”
“Danny Brown’s teeth once looked like a cursed mountain range, his hair getting up from his scalp as if it had somewhere to suddenly be. Both are now smartened up for his first new music in three years, to the point where you might buy a car or sofa from him, but the tracks themselves thankfully still give off a malodorous stank. The Detroit rapper has cultivated, in terms of pure sonics, one of t”
“Danny Brown is full of surprises. 2016’s Atrocity Exhibition was a thick forest of a record, listeners needing machetes to lop through its thicket. Brown drew on production and instrumentation devices that are typically more at home in post-punk and industrial rock music, even down to its Joy Division-aping title. It was an expansion on ideas that had been percolating since 2011’s XXX (2013’s Old ”
