Danny Brown is gearing up to drop a new album, and he promises that this new effort is going to change the rap game. During a Red Bull Music Academy lecture in Scotland, the Detroit rapper revealed that he is being inspired by rockers System of a Down’s 2001 chart-topping album, Toxicity. Hit the jump for more.
Danny Brown talks about Toxicity.
Toxicity is the number one album right now that’s influencing my new album. The way that the concept and the attitude, the way it was sequenced is one of the biggest things for me. You knew there was a social awareness to it.
When you listen to the album Toxicity, it’s actually talking about drugs. The f—ing drug situation in America. And if you look at Danny Brown, my music, the sidekick to all this s—‘s been drugs.
Danny Brown goes on to compare Toxicity to the FBI’s COINTELPRO, a program used to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize” groups who challenged the status quo from 1956 through 1971.
So in a sense, I look at Toxicity as the COINTELPRO, as far as music. There hasn’t been a COINTELPRO rap album, so I’m trying to make the COINTELPRO rap album. You see all the goodness of doing drugs — we’re always giving you the fun-ness of doing drugs but no one’s giving you the side B to it. But now it’s bigger than just me in the hood. It’s a bigger situation.
Danny Brown is a very progressive artist and I enjoy that from him. Hopefully he can find a blend between rap and metal to produce something special.
