In my draft queue for this site, I have a really crappy write-up I did on Danny Brown, who happens to be one of my favorite Detroit eMCees at the moment. He came out of nowhere, hit the scene firing and killed anyone thinking of filling the void of the Detroit hip hop space first. Hot Soup put Detroit hip hop back on the map in 2008, what can I say. I wanted to write on the significance of Danny’s comeuppance, but I could not get the right words together. Epic passages were on my mind, but a part of me thinks it was too early for that.

That is okay though. Danny has had the innanetz going nuts. He did not need my seal of approval to make that happen. I mean, no one really does, but as a writer and a tastemaker it helps to show where my interests lie, so I am going to take my time and do a modest write-up.

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From the newest Detroit classic, Hot Soup, Notion tha Bartender/Nic Notion has spliced together a video for Danny Brown’s ode to a lady that obviously has all his attention. This song was produced by Quelle.

This one is dope. The visual… my girl has the same kind of “charm” on me too. If you don’t have that Hot Soup album – which was primarily produced by recent feature Nick Speed – then you need to stay tuned, because I will have a link for the album on a full-fledged feature on Danny later this week. This is a promise. You will learn a lot about Detroit’s late answer to Ice Cube – word ‘em up!