Danny Brown - Y.B.P. (feat. Bruiser Wolf)

Song Exploder

Hrishikesh Hirway

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4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Danny Brown started his career in 2007 by handing out mixtapes in Detroit, where he’s from. In 2011, he put out his acclaimed second album, XXX. Since then, he’s collaborated with rappers like Kendrick Lamar, A$AP Rocky and JPEGMafia, but he’s also worked with electronic bands like Purity Ring and The Avalanches, and he did a verse on a remix for Korn.

When I first heard him, around when XXX came out, I was really drawn to his voice. And I also appreciated that, given how young so many artists are now when they get really famous, Danny Brown’s career really started taking off in his 30s. He put out his sixth album, Quaranta, in 2023. And for this episode, I talked to him about one of the songs from that album, called “Y.B.P.," which features guest vocals from Bruiser Wolf.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
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0:20.0	This episode contains explicit language.
0:30.0	Danny Brown started his career in 2007 by handing out mixtapes in Detroit where he's from. In 2011, he put out his acclaimed second album, Triple X.
0:34.0	Since then, he's collaborated with rappers like Kendrick Lamar, A-Sap Rocky, and
0:38.0	J-Peg Mafia, but he's also worked with electronic bands like Purity Ring and The
0:41.6	Avalanche's, and he did a verse on a remix for
0:44.2	corn.
0:45.2	When I first heard him around when Triple X came out, I was really drawn to his voice.
0:49.6	And I also appreciated that given how young so many artists are now when they get
0:53.7	really famous, Danny Brown's career really started taking off in his 30s. He put out
0:58.8	his sixth album, Corranta, in 2023, and for this episode I talked to him about one of the songs from that album called
1:05.6	YBP which features guest vocals from Bruiser Wolf. My name is Danny Brown. When I'm going to
1:15.0	black and poor, by the Detroit,
1:16.0	My name is Danny Brown.
1:21.0	When I've created this song I was in Detroit. I was really in a dark time
1:28.6	in my life. I just went through a real bad breakup. I was living in a house in the suburbs and so I decided to move
1:35.4	downtown because it was lively down there. You know it was just a lot of new
1:39.5	restaurants, new nightclubs, so I would move down there with the intentions I'm partying and being single, you know?
1:45.9	And then the quarantine and pandemic and everything happened, so everything was just shut down, so now I'm in this
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