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13th track off Danny’s XXX Mixtape. Danny contemplates the idea of inherited drug addiction.

Danny made this album like older albums used to be — with a Side A and Side B. This is where Side B starts. While, Side A was all fun and games, Side B takes a grittier tone.

Here’s the link to the whole interview.

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Pac Blood Danny Brown – Pac Blood

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3rd Track off Danny’s XXX Mixtape. He discusses how real he is and how vividly he can paint a picture using his words.

Sample is taken from “English House” by Fleet Foxes.

Check the rhyming technique here.

Danny talked about this song in this interview

I didn’t really have a concept, and it didn’t go with the concept of the album. What if modern day rappers were like poets or Shakespeare, if we took it serious. I was just thinking of back in the day, if I was Shakespeare writing raps with ink pens, as weird as that sounds [laughs]. It wasn’t included in my original track listing but my manager [Emeka Obi] just beat me over the head over it and everyone I played it for was like, “Man, that shit is crazier than everything else, that’s my favorite shit!” So I had to throw it on there.

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3rd Track off Danny's **XXX** Mixtape. He discusses how real he is and how vividly he can paint a picture using his words.

Sample is taken from ["English House"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZGpmDw2cyE) by Fleet Foxes.

Check the rhyming technique [**here**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RliD0QMX7yQ).

Danny talked about this song in this [interview](http://www.passionweiss.com/2012/01/10/step-inside-the-mind-that-revolves-around-rhyme-the-making-of-danny-brown’s-xxx/)

> I didn’t really have a concept, and it didn’t go with the concept of the album. What if modern day rappers were like poets or Shakespeare, if we took it serious. I was just thinking of back in the day, if I was Shakespeare writing raps with ink pens, as weird as that sounds [laughs]. It wasn’t included in my original track listing but my manager [Emeka Obi] just beat me over the head over it and everyone I played it for was like, “Man, that shit is crazier than everything else, that’s my favorite shit!” So I had to throw it on there.

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Lie4 Danny Brown – Lie4

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The fifth track on Danny Brown’s XXX mixtape, dealing with the propensity for rappers and people to talk about how they got money but really don’t.

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That was me and Sky trying out ideas, trying to do [grime] to see if I could do it. I was probably experimenting a little more with the grime sound. I wanted to do unexpected shit, going from a Detroit hip-hop sound to a grime sound, who’d expect that? I’m with [SKYWLKR] the most, so it’s easier for me to talk with him and make music than get a beat tape from somebody. In the future, it’s probably going to be more and more Skyler, ‘cause that’s who I’m working with every day.

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“Got that income tax swag” is the funniest refrain I’ve ever heard TBH

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Bruce Wayne exercising to build up muscle –beating up and dragging a tire Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Ft. Batman, DC Extended Universe & Superman) – They Were Hunters

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Ben Affleck bulked up considerably for the role – after all, he’s already taller than Henry Cavill, and with added muscle (which is not as easy to get at the age of 40) makes for a Batman massive even compared to Superman.

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Chillin' with a Filipina at your local Jollibee Childish Gambino – Bonfire

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Gambino loves his Filipino women and takes them to a Filipino fast food restaurant similar to McDonald’s.

Jollibee is the national food chain of the Philippines and is known all over the country. Most locations are found in the Philippines, but stores can also be found in USA, Italy, and UK.

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In Adidas, with some short shorts, B-O-O all over me Childish Gambino – Bonfire

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Childish has long lauded his affinity for Rod Lavers and often wears shorts of vintage nature whose hemline is way above the knees. B-O-O stands for Band of Outsiders, a male clothing line that makes ties.

Boo is also a pet name for a woman, so the line is a double entendre.

“Bonfire”, as well as CG’s other hit “Freaks and Geeks”, were both featured in Adidas commercials:

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This year I'm in the UK sipping Guinness pints
In a nice pub with my man Adam Gibbons Wax – 2010 Til Infinity

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In the ensuing year, Wax will become an international man of mystery and rhyming. He’ll be chilling with his friend DJ Adam Gibbons in an upscale bar sipping Guinness and debating Ferrari prices.

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Rigamortus Kendrick Lamar – Rigamortus

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From Team Kendrick:

When rigor mortis occurs within a corpse, its muscles tighten, causing the body to become stiff and very difficult to move. The chemical reaction makes all blood gravitate to the areas of the body that are closest to the ground, leaving colorful spots as an indication of life that once existed. As the soul escapes, toxins remain causing the corpse to rot and decompose. This is the fate that Kendrick Lamar has deemed onto the competition, more commonly known as your favorite rapper. Amen!
Death can be so beautiful at times. Boasting bars as mad as Marilyn Manson, one grim rapper emerges to hold hip hop ransom. Hailing from Compton, Los Angeles, one of America’s most neglected graveyards, Kendrick yields his sickle (ballpoint pen) to pry open the caskets of lyricism, musicianship, and tradition. The emcee, once known as K. Dot, hence displays an air of irony in his verses, murdering the fraudulent with the same weapon used for shedding light on realness.
Section.80 was released in the first week of July and continues to receive steady rotation from barbershop stereos to iPods on college campuses. A clear game changer, his debut album is dynamic in the sense that it brings forth the story of a generation incubated in the years of Reaganomics, while projecting the rebellious voice of a youth discontented by society’s harsh inflictions.
Directors, The ICU caught up with Kendrick Lamar at various locations throughout New York City to shoot this highly anticipated video off of Section 80. Accompanied by a triumphant three piece brass section, this funeral procession is not a mournful event, but rather a triumphant proclamation for a resurrecting art form. Chuuuch!

This track samples the Jazz composition “The Thorn” off of Willie Jones III’s album Next Phase.

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From Team Kendrick:

>When rigor mortis occurs within a corpse, its muscles tighten, causing the body to become stiff and very difficult to move. The chemical reaction makes all blood gravitate to the areas of the body that are closest to the ground, leaving colorful spots as an indication of life that once existed. As the soul escapes, toxins remain causing the corpse to rot and decompose. This is the fate that Kendrick Lamar has deemed onto the competition, more commonly known as your favorite rapper. Amen!
Death can be so beautiful at times. Boasting bars as mad as Marilyn Manson, one grim rapper emerges to hold hip hop ransom. Hailing from Compton, Los Angeles, one of America's most neglected graveyards, Kendrick yields his sickle (ballpoint pen) to pry open the caskets of lyricism, musicianship, and tradition. The emcee, once known as K. Dot, hence displays an air of irony in his verses, murdering the fraudulent with the same weapon used for shedding light on realness.
*Section.80* was released in the first week of July and continues to receive steady rotation from barbershop stereos to iPods on college campuses. A clear game changer, his debut album is dynamic in the sense that it brings forth the story of a generation incubated in the years of Reaganomics, while projecting the rebellious voice of a youth discontented by society's harsh inflictions.
Directors, The ICU caught up with Kendrick Lamar at various locations throughout New York City to shoot this highly anticipated video off of Section 80. Accompanied by a triumphant three piece brass section, this funeral procession is not a mournful event, but rather a triumphant proclamation for a resurrecting art form. Chuuuch!

This track samples the Jazz composition "The Thorn" off of Willie Jones III's album *Next Phase.*

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