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Psychological Intellect

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Danny Brown is revealing more details around Atrocity Exhibition, his fourth official full-length album, and his first since Old, which dropped almost three years ago.

The new project will include features from Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul and Earl Sweatshirt (all on the same song) as well as Kelela and Cypress Hill’s B-Real.

Brown told Rolling Stone in a new interview that he drew inspiration from Raekwon, early Björk, Joy Division, Talking Heads and System of a Down’s Toxicity, continuing to blend his out-there mix of rock, electronic and rap.

The publication also reports that the samples on the album cost $70,000 to clear.

“A lot of people cheap. And that’s why their music sounds cheap,” Brown said. “I wanna make timeless stuff, so you’re gonna have to spend a couple dollars. You could have Rolex or you can have a Swatch.”

The Detroit rapper shared the cover and tracklist on Instagram Tuesday (August 16) to go along with a song clip from last week. Expect the album on September 30.
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http://hiphopdx.com/news/id.40019/title.danny-brown-paid-70000-for-samples-on-atrocity-exhibition
 
Tokubetsu

Tokubetsu

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Psychological Intellect said:
Danny Brown - Pneumonia
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HiResDes

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I feel like I need to come clean about The Life of Pablo, I still listen to like once a week almost religiously. I don't think it's Ye's best, but I already would have to move it ahead of Graduation, 808s, and maybe even ahead of Yeezus just based on how much I listened to it this year.

I think I have very different expectations for Kanye this day and age. I don't expect to him to be trying to remake Through the Wire and Jesus Walks or even to get much depth out of his lyrics. First and foremost though I will say that he's become even more humorous and entertaining in his rap style. He's more absurd than truly witty now, and I'm okay with it. The Life of Pablo has countless quotables that I find myself repeating and over and over even if I think they're downright stupid.

TLOP basically gives me these glimpses of all these different various eras in Kanye's storied career without having to completely retread old songs. It's a greatest hits compilation without the staleness. Highlights and Real Friends are fantastic summer BBQ tracks. Wolves and FML are two incredible contemplative winter tracks. 30 Hours and No More Parties bring us back to that "real hip-hop" golden era with bigger more modern production. Feedback and Facts give us that loud irreverent, abrasive Yeezus style with fairly good success. The album is comprised of all of these little Ye vignettes and does a good job of serving as a condensed sparknote of his career while also including some forward thinking experiments like the House inspired Fade (even though I'm not too crazy about it).
 
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Syphon Filter

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I never got the Graduation hate, it is Kanye's 3rd best album minimum, TLOP is better than yeezus at least but MBDTF was kanye's last interesting album.
 
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MuddyDonut

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HiResDes said:
I feel like I need to come clean about The Life of Pablo, I still listen to like once a week almost religiously. I don't think it's Ye's best, but I already would have to move it ahead of Graduation, 808s, and maybe even ahead of Yeezus just based on how much I listened to it this year.

I think I have very different expectations for Kanye this day and age. I don't expect to him to be trying to remake Through the Wire and Jesus Walks or even to get much depth out of his lyrics. First and foremost though I will say that he's become even more humorous and entertaining in his rap style. He's more absurd than truly witty now, and I'm okay with it. The Life of Pablo has countless quotables that I find myself repeating and over and over even if I think they're downright stupid.

TLOP basically gives me these glimpses of all these different various eras in Kanye's storied career without having to completely retread old songs. It's a greatest hits compilation without the staleness. Highlights and Real Friends are fantastic summer BBQ tracks. Wolves and FML are two incredible contemplative winter tracks. 30 Hours and No More Parties bring us back to that "real hip-hop" golden era with bigger more modern production. Feedback and Facts give us that loud irreverent, abrasive Yeezus style with fairly good success. The album is comprised of all of these little Ye vignettes and does a good job of serving as a condensed sparknote of his career while also including some forward thinking experiments like the House inspired Fade (even though I'm not too crazy about it).
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Seeing him next month. Gotta revisit that catalogue and reset my Kanye rankings.
 
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Hitta93

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It's a very boring listen.

Not that it's bad
(Yeezus is the only true bad Kanye album, let's face reality.)
, but it's not one of my go-tos. You can throw 808s and Late Registration to make my bottom 4.
 
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Koozek

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HiResDes said:
I feel like I need to come clean about The Life of Pablo, I still listen to like once a week almost religiously. I don't think it's Ye's best, but I already would have to move it ahead of Graduation, 808s, and maybe even ahead of Yeezus just based on how much I listened to it this year.

I think I have very different expectations for Kanye this day and age. I don't expect to him to be trying to remake Through the Wire and Jesus Walks or even to get much depth out of his lyrics. First and foremost though I will say that he's become even more humorous and entertaining in his rap style. He's more absurd than truly witty now, and I'm okay with it. The Life of Pablo has countless quotables that I find myself repeating and over and over even if I think they're downright stupid.

TLOP basically gives me these glimpses of all these different various eras in Kanye's storied career without having to completely retread old songs. It's a greatest hits compilation without the staleness. Highlights and Real Friends are fantastic summer BBQ tracks. Wolves and FML are two incredible contemplative winter tracks. 30 Hours and No More Parties bring us back to that "real hip-hop" golden era with bigger more modern production. Feedback and Facts give us that loud irreverent, abrasive Yeezus style with fairly good success. The album is comprised of all of these little Ye vignettes and does a good job of serving as a condensed sparknote of his career while also including some forward thinking experiments like the House inspired Fade (even though I'm not too crazy about it).
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Huh, okay, didn't expect that. For me it left my mind completely after two weeks or so of heavy rotation. I sometimes forget it came out. Ye sounds so forced and lazy. The production is cool at parts, but it's really not that progressive if you listen to other rap albums than just the big ones.
 
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HiResDes

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I think what we're getting now is closer to the true Ye in terms of rap style. He might still be getting some help with the flow of the bars, but I think he's more of a driving force in the subject matter and the punchlines. It's not lazy, this is how the near 40 year old Kanye raps, this is more representative of who he is at this point...So anyone still expecting Rhymefest Get Em High style rappity rap bars are in delusion I feel. I think some of the shit he says is funny as hell and even when he kind of misses it's still mad amusing. I feel like That Part is a good barometer for figuring out of you like modern Ye or not, half the people in this thread thought that verse was hot garbage, but it for me Ye dropped some of the most memorable bars of the year. Ye's not going to out spit anyone at this point, but he can still out wit many of them.
 
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Vorheez

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I haven't heard Pablo front to back yet, but I did think that Ye's verse on That Part was dope. Maybe I'll go back and check out Pablo then
 
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Courage

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Father Stretch My Hands, Real Friends, FML, Highlights and Waves are top-tier Kanye tracks. Only tracks I can say are outright awful are Freestyle 4, No More Parties in LA and maaaybe Feedback. Definitely in the upper half of his discog.
 
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Psychological Intellect

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TLOP is just so forgettable, everything sounds so half assed. Graduation is better.


Im not totally against his wonder bread bars but I don't find most of his rapping on TLOP to be funny or charismatic or anything, just lazy.

Like, I enjoy his verse on That Part, but his verse on FSMH makes me only listen up to the metro tag then I skip. It's awful.


Some nice beats tho.
 
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Net_Wrecker

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I agree that Kanye just sounds so lazy on parts of TLOP. I'm cool with the absurd arrogance, but I feel like it was channeled through better flows on Yeezus. I Am A God >>>> TLOP. Some of his verses on Pablo are just straight up dumb. Dumb, and loud, and repetitive. Annoying to listen to, particularly the first half. There's a handful of tracks I really liked, but even those I don't go back to anymore.

If his verse on That Part is the barometer, I'm definitely not a fan. That was peak IDGAF rapping. I don't think something being quotable makes it good. Donald Trump is quotable, but he's still a loud idiot.
 
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ViewtifulJC

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Everybody gets washed up eventually. Em, Jay, Fetty Wap. Kanye just the latest old man doing lame shit in the booth and he too big and popular for anybody to stop him.
 
Andrew Korenchkin

Andrew Korenchkin

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ViewtifulJC said:
Everybody gets washed up eventually. Em, Jay, Fetty Wap. Kanye just the latest old man doing lame shit in the booth and he too big and popular for anybody to stop him.
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Fetty Wapp is pretty new, though.

I usually taper off expectations for new music from my favorites rather easily. One reason why I don't care about hearing any new De La or Wu Tang.
 
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Courage

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Net_Wrecker said:
I agree that Kanye just sounds so lazy on parts of TLOP. I'm cool with the absurd arrogance, but I feel like it was channeled through better flows on Yeezus. I Am A God >>>> TLOP. Some of his verses on Pablo are just straight up dumb. Dumb, and loud, and repetitive. Annoying to listen to, particularly the first half. There's a handful of tracks I really liked, but even those I don't go back to anymore.

If his verse on That Part is the barometer, I'm definitely not a fan. That was peak IDGAF rapping. I don't think something being quotable makes it good. Donald Trump is quotable, but he's still a loud idiot.
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tbh I'd say he sounds just as lazy, loud and dumb on Yeezus (i.e. But I got her back in and put my dick in her mooooooouth and notably Bound 2) , but it works well with the abrasive musical style without being excessively self-indulgent compared to TLOP (it still is because it's Kanye, even though it's his most concise album).
 
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