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90
XXX is a bloated album; 19-track albums are a thing of the early millennium past. But this bloat is a gluttonous glory.
11y
90
XXX might just represent the most polished and fully formed manifestation of street-meets-art rap so far.
11y
90
It’s precisely how over-the-top the mixtape is that settles it as one of the great hip-hop releases of the past few years. Brown’s lively lyricism and the brilliantly schizophrenic and experimental production form a beautiful team, and the release benefits greatly from every nasally whine, every trippy 808 and unearthly synth hook.
86
XXX is something much more complex, challenging, and rewarding than a dirty joke.
12y
82
The audacious Detroit rapper with a strangled voice and a penchant for depravity transforms his jagged edges into a compelling and immersive universe. Brown's voice is uniquely suited to conveying wild-eyed, loose-cannon insanity, and the rising note of panic in it makes every mention of snorting crushed Adderall hurt.
12y
80
Detroit rapper Danny Brown's latest album functions in extremes. They're not really the angry, voluminous extremes the latest Death Grips album functions on. They're more like extremes of excess.
80
Brown's vivid storytelling skills bear testament to a major talent.
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1y
70
Beyond its confrontational veneer lies a 19 track collection of a good number of 2011’s hardest, freshest, most concrete bars imaginable.
12y
Rumors say that if you google the album's name you get unlimited money.
Well, considering that Danny just released the sequel to this album, it's definitely appropriate to dive into the project that put the legendary Detroit rapper on the map in the first place, and my second favorite album from him. 12 years ago Danny came out with one of the most unhinged albums of the 2010's, XXX.
After his not very successful debut (but still solid) in 2010, Danny released his sophomore album XXX. An ... read more
This is where Danny Brown really got it going.
Right away you’ll notice that Danny’s voice is pretty weird if you’re a new listener. Some people even hate his voice. Danny Brown himself said that making that voice gives him headaches.
If you get past his voice, you’ll come to find out that Danny Brown has a lot of clever lines in this album, especially in certain songs like Monopoly. The entire album is produced really well, and the pacing is awesome.
My only problem ... read more
Not the greatest album from Danny. There are some highpoints in this album, but none of them reach as high as his later projects and the lows here are really rough to listen through in my opinion. This isn't a bad album, but I would much rather listen to Atrocity Exhibition which to me just feels like a version of this album that is more conceptually refined and better produced.
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Track List
| 1 | XXX 1:50 | 93 |
| 2 | Die Like a Rockstar 2:25 | 92 |
| 3 | Pac Blood 2:32 | 92 |
| 4 | Radio Song 2:21 | 79 |
| 5 | Lie4 3:11 | 81 |
| 6 | I Will 3:15 | 79 |
| 7 | Bruiser Brigade 3:44 feat. DOPEHEAD | 78 |
| 8 | Detroit187 3:05 feat. Chip$ | 78 |
| 9 | Monopoly 2:44 | 92 |
| 10 | Blunt After Blunt 3:25 | 84 |
| 11 | Outer Space 2:44 | 86 |
| 12 | Adderall Admiral 1:43 | 81 |
| 13 | DNA 2:56 | 93 |
| 14 | Nosebleeds 1:36 | 87 |
| 15 | Party All the Time 3:28 | 91 |
| 16 | EWNESW 2:23 | 83 |
| 17 | Fields 2:33 | 86 |
| 18 | Scrap or Die 3:56 | 84 |
| 19 | 30 3:18 | 95 |
Total Length: 53 minutes
Year End Lists
| #3 | / | Prefix |
| #6 | / | Cokemachineglow |
| #6 | / | Complex |
| #6 | / | SPIN |
| #12 | / | The Needle Drop |
| #19 | / | FACT Magazine |
| #19 | / | Pitchfork |
| #28 | / | Pazz and Jop |
| #39 | / | Consequence of Sound |
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4d
hearing planking refrenced in detroit187 really brings into perspective how poorly all of peggy and dannys modern pop culture refrences are going to age...
Added on: September 12, 2011