Danny Brown - Old 2LP NEW Danny Brown - Old 2LP NEW

Danny Brown - Old 2LP

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Dubbed the Hybrid as soon as he came onto the scene, Detroit rapper  offered manic and mighty hype tracks (with his patented and chirpy "high voice") along with deeper, more meaningful tales of the hood (delivered in his "low voice"). That nickname also became the title of a 2010 street release, but it would have been better saved for this, as  hits the golden ratio of 's bonkers and brilliance. Dividing the release in golden age vinyl style, "Side A (Old)" kicks things off with the throwback rhyme "Got my young, light skin rollin' up the trees/Wearin' jackets in the house, it's the Michigan way" as the MTV regular and Scion A/V-sponsored star is transported back to his early days for an album's side worth of tracks.  fits perfectly on "The Return," which plays up 's concept of a throwback album, while the thoroughly modern production and guest appearance of  messes with time as  gets posted on the corner with old friends and old enemies. With the over-the-top and infectious "Wonderbread" hitting full hype, "Lonely" doing the  thing with weed offering spacemen relief, "Gremlins" connecting the dots between old Detroit and 's , plus the great "Torture" finding producer  modernizing  sound for 's enjoyment, "side one" already equals an excellent LP, and the futuristic, post-XXX-minded "side two" does not disappoint. Great things happen as "Dubstep" borrows the genre's name and then attacks it with wit and glitch, "Dip" displays why he's the wit-lovers rapper with one drop of "Like Lieutenant Dan, I'm rollin'," then an album-ending trilogy brings , , and aboard for a series of cuts that are more than the sum of their parts. The album's title -- which flows perfectly after his 2012 single "Grown Up" -- is referenced on the  track when "Float On" finds  wondering how hip-hop will see his work once he's old, but with other lines like "Music in my heart, but