Dirty Laundry by Danny Brown Song Info
“Dirty Laundry” is the lead single from uknowhatimsayin¿, Danny’s fifth studio album. Boasting production credits from Q-Tip, Danny goes into shocking detail of his past sexual escapades – in other words “airing out his dirty laundry.” The theme of washing/doing laundry is repeated throughout the track, particularly in the second verse where he variously references: bleach, soap, Clorox, Tide, Arm & Hammer, Gain, hanging clothing out to dry, spin cycles, and mopping up. “This is actually the version that people hearing, but what sparked it pretty much was just stand-up comedy. I wrote it more in a talky flow. The first version. And it was more of like, you know. It was just my version of doing a stand-up comedy set. It’s just jokes.“ “When I was talking about signing with Fool’s Gold, Q-Tip was the one that put the battery in the back to tell them to make it happen, you know what I’m saying? So I think he always been following my music to this point, so once we started to start talking about this album, it’s always want to have an executive producer involved in it, just somebody to help out. And he just came the board. My managers just hooked it up, so shouts out Tip. Working with Q-Tip, man, it was a humbling experience because we always think you know everything but when you’re around somebody like such a legend like him you got to take his criticism to heart. He ain’t going to steer you down a wrong path when it comes to making music. This is his passion, just like us. I used to record songs and it was almost like trying to catch lightning in a bottle almost. I’d just want to probably just get one take and try to capture the emotion more so than getting all the words right. But with him, he like, “Nah, man. You only got so much time before you put this music out in the world, so might as well give it all the love and care that it needs before people start to hear it. Because it’s like, once you put it out, it’s over.” So he pays a lot of attention to detail. Now I see that in the product after you put a lot of work into something like that. I’m happy with the way everything turned out.“ “Before, I felt like it almost had to be like I’m trying to do a séance or something. Man, I got to have the candles going, I got to have the right incense, the right show on in the background. But now, it’s like, “Man. I’m a pro at this shit, man.” I just sit down whenever I feel, because at the end of the day, I look at it like, “This ain’t you. This a talent. This is coming from a higher power, so who is you to sit around think you need all that shit just to make it happen? All you got to do it put the pen to the paper and it’s going to happen.” So that’s what I go for now. I look at more, not like a job I would say, but almost like getting reps. You know what I’m saying? Just being a pro, man. That’s how I look at it, man. You’ve got to train.“ - Danny Brown via Genius Annotations
