Pitchfork placed the album at number 19 on its list of the "Top 50 albums of 2011",while SPIN named it the top hip-hop album of 2011. This album was released as a free download by Brooklyn, New York based rap label Fool's Gold Records. Brown cited XXX as his attempt at "experimenting and seeing how far [he] could push listeners" with his music. Brown explains that XXX is an attempt at a serious concept album with a storyline, citing track 13 “DNA” as the start of Side B. "The cover looked like a vinyl to me, so I was going with that whole vibe". He explained that "the first side is all having fun" before the album takes a serious turn from "DNA" onward. Pitchfork placed the album at number 19 on its list of the "Top 50 albums of 2011",while SPIN named it the top hip-hop album of 2011. This album was released as a free download by Brooklyn, New York based rap label Fool's Gold Records. Brown cited XXX as his attempt at "experimenting and seeing how far [he] could push listeners" with his music. Brown explains that XXX is an attempt at a serious concept album with a storyline, citing track 13 “DNA” as the start of Side B. "The cover looked like a vinyl to me, so I was going with that whole vibe". He explained that "the first side is all having fun" before the album takes a serious turn from "DNA" onward. false 2025-01-01 21:48:16 2011 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 53 Hip-Hop 114795 2133251 77d955b1-8cac-4a87-8fa1-84a6f93466bc 960afc67-9c21-46dd-9c7f-ff2b509e3150 bb024a53-89a1-4c57-b17c-88f1a127eb32 D:\Music\Danny Brown - XXX (FLAC - 2011)\cover.jpg Danny Brown Danny Brown 1 01:50 2 02:25 3 02:32 4 02:21 5 03:11 6 03:15 7 03:44 8 03:05 9 02:44 10 03:25 11 02:44 12 01:43 13 02:56 14 01:36 15 03:28 16 02:23 17 02:33 18 03:56 19 03:18