{"id":279,"date":"2019-10-14T00:35:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T00:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wmcn.fm\/?p=279"},"modified":"2021-01-17T02:37:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T02:37:24","slug":"album-review-danny-brown-uknowhatimsayin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wmcn.fm\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Danny Brown\u2014uknowhatimsayin\u00bf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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If this is Danny Brown\u2019s transition into elder statesman mode, I\u2019m here for it. You gotta give the guy some credit\u2014he\u2019s spent the last ten years rapping like a maniac over beats that no sensible person would touch. I know not everyone will be happy with this course adjustment, but hear me out\u2014let him have his chill album. Give him a chance to stretch. You might be surprised by what he\u2019s able to accomplish within this framework. For one, between the stories (\u201cDirty Laundry\u201d) and the endless streams of killer one-liners (\u201cSavage Nomad\u201d) he\u2019s got a lot to say here, and he\u2019s able to lay it out much more clearly over comfy R&B samples than Atrocity Exhibition\u2019s industrial hellscapes. While Atrocity remains the stronger album as a whole, it was essentially a dead-end (what was he gonna do next\u2014go full Death Grips?), while uknowhatimsayin\u00bf feels like a new beginning, ripe with possibilities. I\u2019d also be remiss if I didn\u2019t shout out the top-notch work by Q-Tip\u2014again, not Danny\u2019s M.O. production-wise, but these two clearly have a closely-knit creative relationship, and thus, were able to make it work. I honestly wouldn\u2019t mind another helping of this somewhere down the line, but considering his track record, I doubt his ability to sit still for that long. No big deal though. Just another damn-near perfect album from the greatest rapper ever. (4\/5)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If this is Danny Brown\u2019s transition into elder statesman mode, I\u2019m here for it. You gotta give the guy some credit\u2014he\u2019s spent the last ten years rapping like a maniac … Read moreAlbum Review: Danny Brown\u2014uknowhatimsayin\u00bf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[51,87,84,86,33],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-review","tag-album-review","tag-danny-brown","tag-music","tag-rap","tag-wmcn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmcn.fm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmcn.fm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmcn.fm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmcn.fm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmcn.fm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmcn.fm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmcn.fm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmcn.fm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmcn.fm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmcn.fm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmcn.fm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}