Danny Brown has released a new visual from his latest album about growing up in a deteriorating metropolis — check it out below.
On Wednesday (January 17), the Detroit MC dropped a music video for ‘Y.B.P’ with Bruiser Wolf, which is an acronym for “Young, Black and Poor.” The partially animated piece from Quaranta features both artists looking back on their respective childhoods in the D, which was and still is notoriously infested with crime, drugs and unemployment.
“Only go to church when someone die/ Kids raisin’ kids, all tryna be grown/ Things never fix when we come from broken homes,” Brown spits, surrounded by the vices he was forced to navigate past as a child.
Wolf then hops in with his own take, rapping: “Detroit city, that’s where I live/ Feels like Poetic Justice, you get killed at the drive-in/ Who gon’ front you some work? Who gon’ front you some work?/ We was fresh from the dirt, put you on a t-shirt.”
Danny Brown dropped his sixth full-length body of work late last year to critical acclaim. During an interview with HipHopDX soon after its release, he talked about the changes in his lifestyle and choosing to pursue sobriety in the public eye.
“I’m kind of like an open book,” he said about announcing that he was checking into rehab just as his joint album with JPEGMAFIA dropped in early 2023. “It kind of helps me in some sense, too […] now, it’s like if I fuck up and relapse or something, I fail in front of the whole world, my whole fanbase.”
He added: “I don’t want to let them down, y’know, so they on this journey with me. And they give me a lot of encouragement, too, to keep it on the straight and narrow.
“I’ll get a message, they be like, ‘Man, you 117 days [sober]’ — I was getting messages like that where they counting the days […] shit like that keeps me motivated.”
This March, Brown will take his updated catalog on the road across North America, performing 24 shows in 34 days.
Dope video
Just one question? how long can you milk the “young black and poor” angle when you’re 46 years old? At some point don’t you have pride? we don’t need any more delusional middle aged junkies in any community black or white.
Ever heard of childhood trauma? If so, you should know that it can take decades to overcome. What we definitely don’t need in this world are more judgmental psychopaths and hypocrites. Just more people who can keep their ignorance and negativity to themselves.
Bro, I was deployed into Iraq and saw freaking brains blown to pieces near me and you don’t hear me crying like I’m a victim. And I qas AGAINST the war. I guess some are tough, and some people are weak.
needs to find jesus christ
Reflect on bad choice, drugs and terrible leaders in your community enabling your behaviors instead and maybe, maybe .. you’ll see improvements
Talk about what other communities should do is cheap when you’re not from said community.
Same song different visual, reminds me of Fields. C’mon Danny you gotta push the narrative upward and forward, not recycle the same content.
Dang, it sounds like it really sucks to be black =( sorry guys, if I could make you white, I would… I truly would…