If yall fw Danny, if you can, PLEASE support him and buy the music/merch. Dude ended up in financial trouble after giving us Atrocity Exhibition and he deserves all the love.
I love that he did this because so often men especially don't like showing the sides of us that hurt, or the hurt across our lives and how it shapes our experience of the world, and our relationships with a sense of meaning. To even say how you feel in the moments when you make a bad decision can feel like a step too far, so you don't explore it, either. You know it came from something bad, something dark inside of you. But you don't go there because even acknowledging it is a threat to your sense of identity, and you swallow it like a shot of everclear. I've known too many otherwise great people who just close the door on that part of themselves, I think sometimes because they can't fully believe that they are really damaged in a way that needs addressing. Everybody sees it in em, but they never heal because they won't talk about it. And for the most part, that's considered normal. In some people's heads it is simply 'a type' or an innate aspect of manhood. But it really isn't. The worst part is we are all just brainwashed to think that way by our culture... that a man shouldn't go through the whole procedure of processing compound traumas, or be affected in things in his life in ways that make him feel purposeless. To even feel a need to even sort that is a failure to overcome in a lot of dudes minds. That fear of weakness leads to this squandering - sometimes pain is not something you can think your way out of, and there is nowhere you can go that is far enough and nothing you can do that can take you far enough away in your mind. But damn if some dudes don't siphon all of their energy into that for years of their lives, and leave a lot of destruction behind.. Sometimes it's subtle, dude can be holding down life fine. But life ain't really that good. Spend enough time with em and you see it's a tiny box... all of these places they can't go because of a mix of pain and a sense of responsibility towards and insecurity with their sense of masculinity. You can't move on from failures that you rationalize away behind this image of a strong, stoic identity... nor a chaotic, devil-may-care one. They haunt you, these demons that come to take you away from the choices you actually need to make in order to feel in your own skin long term in those key moments. Two types of men, both carrying the same inutterable pain and traversing similar spirals. It's nuts to me that people can live their lives this way, and that so many people around will just let things be that way, won't reach out to that person, show some vulnerability to them and give them a chance to search for some honest expression of inner truth. In my house you didn't hide how you feel and act out, you let it be known and get to the why of it and there is no judgement so long as it is the truth of where you're at. I am a grown man, I do a man's job and get respect from other men. For years I have worked with all sorts of different contractors in house building. I build things, I fix machines. I love what I do and I am good at it. And I also do not hide from my own feelings, or try to hide them from other people, pretend I'm fine when I am struggling. But so many that I meet would be terrified to do, even with just close friends in total privacy, what Danny did in front of the whole rap world... a place kinda notorious for dudes with mixed up baggage inside. Because a lot of people are scared of losing their man card, or have it so bad that they believe deep down inside that they are less for having thorns to pull. My mantra is always be patient and honest with yourself. When you do that, it gets easier to be honest with other people about how you feel and what matters to you. And believe it or not there is so much respect in that. Most people prefer to deal with someone who is comfortable and easy with communicating those things, like dealing with people who know where they're at and where they're going. And even when you have no plan, sorting your experiences yeild principles that can aid you when you don't know what to do. And it never stops. That's another thing. Danny is in his 40's going through this shit, but the truth is there will always be challenges to emotional growth, no matter what your gender or your location lottery ticket says. There is a sense among many of my peers that one should reach a point where they stop looking inwards, it is seen as childish, or for people who aren't solid. We are men, we are rational. But deep down inside we know that isn't true. And thinking you are is a good way to become a slave to emotions. You shut off and tell yourself you don't feel certain things. And while you aren't looking, those very things run your life into the ground. The reality is, the self-humbling, the willingness to just look at yourself and say "I've been fucking up and it is because of things that live inside of me that I'm not accounting for." is what MAKES you solid. It's not a weakness to be where you actually are. Only the strong survive it, actually. And Danny is comin out of it solid gold. The level of expression he put on this little jawn lets you know he is putting in the TIME to master his own domain and really try to understand. I especially love the cover, he looks like a sad little boy. And that same sad little boy probably lives inside a bunch of people who rock his shit. That puts Danny WAYYY out there in his understanding of personhood. Because in spite of what he goes through, and what he knows of it, he is able to see others going through it who NEED to see it from the outside, see for themselves the kinds of thoughts they avoid out of fear. It's a powerful thing, man. This whole thing is a tour de force showing of some of the deepest inner aspects of the human experience, not holding back, not playing into hype or dangling a twinkie, just goin right in there and flipping his own pages open. It's beautiful, especially when you have the narrative of his past works in your head.
Honestly my AOTY, Everyone still raving bout Scaring The Hoes and as much as i love JPEG and Danny this album just hit so much harder for me, Every track was raw AF, No misses for me.
What I really like about Scaring the Hoes and Quaranta is that we got both sides of Danny Brown. If I want the wild, unpredictable Danny, then it’s STH all the way but if I’m looking for that hard-hitting, introspective and somber music, Quaranta it is. He delivered on both fronts so well. Up there imo as one of the most consistent rappers right now.
came here to say this! He kept his experimenting sound, but I think it’s also the most “accessible” album he’s put out, aside from the Alchemist/Wiki collab project that dropped the same month.
I actually enjoyed this album just as much if not more overall than XXX, The highs of XXX are better but there are a couple tracks i usually skip on there, Wasn't any skips for me on this one.
@butterschunkmcdonalds5333 I think so too. It's hard to make an album as long as xxx and have it be no skips. So happy he kept this one short and all gas
Don't forget to listen to all the b-sides of Tame Impala's 4 albums, they are golden. For Innerspeaker, the song is called Island Walking. For Lonerism, it is Beverly Laurel. For Currents, there are 3 songs: List Of People (To Try and Forget About), Taxi's here, and Powerlines. Lastly, for The Slow Rush there are also 3 songs: The Boat I Row, No Choice, and lastly Patience. I really think all the b-sides are worth a listen as well.
You see, to me Danny talking about time and age is nothing new. Not to say Quaranta isn't different, but i feel quaranta being taken as this 'mature' album is disingenuously said by people who haven't been listening to Danny for that long. His debut album XXX is literally 30 in roman numerals and the album that follows that is is titled Old. These are theme's that Danny returns to and writes different chapter's in his book about. I can understand not taking his humor seriously on first listen. Most think that the class clown is not going through much because he's always laughing and making people laugh. However, when you make sense of why the dark humor is delivered in the manner it is (the squeaky voice) it's meant to be a juxtaposition to his more somber cuts where he uses his deeper pitched regular voice. While Danny talks about his highs they're often subversive with the undercurrent of lows. I'm glad you enjoyed the album and i hope it makes you guys more interested in checking out his previous releases. That i personally think expand on the content in this album. The fact that you guys are even giving this kind of music a shot and giving it a platform is wonderful. Great video!
This album to me even tho its only been a day feels like its trying to guide me to be a better version of myself, the intro has this nostalgic vibe the kind of better late than never message behind it and to make every moment count, Tantor imma be honest I dont get the message still, aint my concern is like Danny trying to say put yourself first. I dont rember all of the songs that well but my point is this album is incredible
I feel similar man, I’ve had my own issues with addiction for years, slowly lost damn near everything. Danny really hit me hard with this one and it makes me wanna fight for a better tomorrow.
@@jacksononealCould be because stylistically it’s his biggest departure yet, but for me, a large portion of this album resonated with my own life experience so I loved it.
