Kiss on my list

Danny Brown’s Top 25 Records
No. 20, Hot Boys, Guerrilla Warfare

I look at that album almost in the sense of Hall and Oates. The producers just clicked so good with the songwriters. Every song that they made hit the money. On that album, they were just hitting every shot. Every beat, every song, and every hook just hit the money. I love that album. I always get inspired by that album when I think I want to make a perfect album. To me that was like a perfect album. Everything clicked. You look at an album and ask, ‘Who, what, when, where, and why?’ They answered every question.

Down south artists weren’t seen as lyricists at the time. To me they were lyrical as fuck. They could rap. I think Louisiana, in general, has good schooling. Louisiana rappers always have good vocabulary. Even listening to the new guys like Kevin Gates, like Curren$y. They must have good schooling or something. Even Gucci. They might talk country, but they got a wide vocabulary. I always noticed that about Louisiana.