Danny Brown, shot for SPIN’s October 2011 issue by J.R. Mankoff
“That’s Danny Brown?” a friend of mine asked as a skinny dude with an asymmetrical haircut — one side shaved, the other side, impossibly, awesomely voluminous — stalked the front of the stage at the Fool’s Gold Day Off party Monday evening. Throughout the Detroit rapper’s manic performance, he struggled with a sound system that threatened to overpower his vocals, but Brown’s sheer presence sold the songs even when you couldn’t hear what the hell he was saying. He threw around pointy elbows and emphasized goofy punch lines (“Rep my set / Sorta like Squidward and his clarinet”), his eyes falling back into his head when he dredged up some ugly detail from his life (“Mommy gave me food stamps to buy Wonder Bread / On the way, these niggas jumped, left me with a knot on my head”)…
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