The 19th and final track off Danny’s XXX Mixtape. Here, an emotional Danny outlines the fears, dreams and obstacles he’s experienced in the years spent pursuing this dream.

Danny did this song in a take. He is known for capturing the emotion behind the song, even if there are a few imperections here or there.

I try to do everything in one take because I’m used to doing that. [Punch-ins] are weird to me. That was one long verse, but I did want to capture the emotion of it. “30” is where [the [protagonist] crashes.

11th Track off Danny’s XXX Mixtape. Danny flexes his skills and shows us how he’s in “Outer Space.”

Danny talks about the song here

That’s also the Def Jux sound. Like I said, the production was working [here].

On the fifteenth track off Danny’s mixtape XXX, Danny tells the tale of a young woman who ruins her life partying.

Danny has a lot of empathy for people who are addicted to the party-lifestyle (just like he is) and all the collateral damage it does to a person’s life. So, no matter how disrespectful he sounds towards the “hoes” when he is in his party-mode, he doesn’t forget where they come from and understands why they behave the way they do.

Danny talks about the song here

I was always a fan of The Streets’ album A Grand Don’t Come For Free and I wanted to swaggerjack his whole shit and come with a full fledged story like his was. I just did it my way. I know a lot of chicks like that, bruh. That song is not too different from [The Hybrid’s] “Drinks On Me”. I think the type of girls I talk about on the fun times are the type of girls that’ll be down on their downtime. I can’t just be sitting around talking about “Bitch suck my dick” all day and not have no flip-side.

12th track off Danny’s XXX Mixtape. Here, he pays homage to his favorite drug: Adderall.

Danny talks about it here:

I wanted a soundtrack that flowed cohesively, not just content and songs. And I liked the way the beats [for “Blunt After Blunt” to “Adderall Admiral”] sounded in that order

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.