XXX

The follow-up to Brown’s highly-acclaimed The Hybrid. Danny Brown’s third mixtape appropriately entitled “XXX” which is the Roman numeral equivalent of “30” (Danny’s age at time of release). Released via Fool’s Gold Records.

Brown talked about the album, saying,

The Hybrid was dealing with teenage pregnancy, welfare and drug abuse — it’s way more socially conscious. The process was just to make a cohesive-sounding project and show my range. XXX wasn’t about that, because I felt like I already proved that. It’s about the moment. The pressure was different because there were a lot more people paying attention to my music, so I had to think differently. XXX is me experimenting and seeing how far I can push listeners with what I do. Before I didn’t think I could really do [rhyming] patterns like Elzhi, Eminem, dudes like that. They probably got rhyming dictionaries or thesauruses and whatever. I just got like two grades of regular hood nigga vocabulary and tried to play with that. I figured out a way to do it.

The entire interview is here.