Danny Brown spent his last album, 2023’s Quaranta , in quiet contemplation. The record, named after the Italian word for 40, was a spiritual sequel to his breakout 2011 release XXX , and a conscious work of contrast. Where XXX was zany and manic, driven by wacky punchlines and lurid stories of life as a drug seller and user in Detroit, Quaranta was downtempo and reflective. After a decade of making party music, the man who once bragged “because I’m 32, I know how to do my drugs,” began to question that narrative of control. Though the album was recorded before he went to rehab and came out after his stay there, Quaranta captured with stunning clarity the doubts and demons that pushed Brown toward sobriety.

His new album Stardust is his first recorded without substances,

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