{"id":88,"date":"2019-12-08T16:54:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T16:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.richbradley.org\/songs\/?p=88"},"modified":"2020-04-25T17:05:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T17:05:41","slug":"aint-it-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richbradley.org\/songs\/201x-favorites\/aint-it-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAin\u2019t It Funny\u201d \u2013 Danny Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ain&#039;t It Funny- Danny Brown\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YNogzmuULLM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Detroit rapper Danny Brown has seen hard times. He\u2019s faced poverty, jail, addiction and depression, and he\u2019s continued to be tagged as an outsider even after finally getting some recognition in his 30s. He is okay telling you about all this at length.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How you address such bleak topics when you\u2019re known for delivering raunchy punchlines in a high, strangled voice that\u2019s more Bobcat Goldthwait than Nas is an interesting conundrum.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On his 2013 LP <em>Old,<\/em> Brown attacked this problem through sheer scale of ambition, presenting 19 tracks of immaculately crafted beats that sound like the history and future of hip-hop engaged in hand-to-hand combat. He modulated his delivery from track to track to complement countless shifts in tone. He infused menace into party tracks like \u201cDip\u201d and wit into darker tracks like \u201cClean Up.\u201d Brown said he was taking inspiration from Radiohead, and that <em>Old<\/em> was his <em>Kid A<\/em>. Critics bought in and called <em>Old<\/em> a masterpiece. It sold decently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you\u2019ve already put <em>Kid A<\/em> pressure on yourself, where do you go next? Judging by 2016\u2019s <em>Atrocity Exhibition,<\/em> the answer is you completely fall apart. The beats sound like they\u2019ve become self-aware, revolted, killed the producer and taken over the studio. Danny\u2019s voice has deteriorated into fully strung-out Animaniac. By the time Kendrick pops up on \u201cReally Doe\u201d you want to beg him to help you escape this abandoned amusement park nightmare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Kendrick doesn\u2019t help you, and two grueling tracks later you hit \u201cAin\u2019t It Funny,\u201d the ninth circle of Danny Brown hell. \u201cAin\u2019t It Funny\u201d is built on a dissonant two-chord horn sample from a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wpqL12AIo4E\" target=\"_blank\">composition by free jazz bandleader Carla Bley<\/a>, which was hilariously released under Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason\u2019s name (it was 1981 and one assumes the label thought that would help sales). \u201cAin\u2019t It Funny\u201d sounds upbeat compared to everything that precedes it, and I mean upbeat in the sense that your cortisol level is upbeat when someone pushes you into traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though it wasn\u2019t released as a single, there\u2019s a music video directed by Jonah Hill, of all people. The video attempts to lean into Brown\u2019s nightmare clown tone by literally showing us what a sitcom-as-horror-movie would look like, but I think it\u2019s a little too on-the-nose. <em>Atrocity Exhibition<\/em> is disturbing enough without visuals, ain\u2019t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit rapper Danny Brown has seen hard times. He\u2019s faced poverty, jail, addiction and depression, and he\u2019s continued to be tagged as an outsider even after finally getting some recognition in his 30s. 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