Danny Brown, the tart-tongued rapper from Detroit, set himself a high bar to clear with his last album, 2016’s Atrocity Exhibition, a funky head trip that took on influences of industrial and post-punk. But he was given a huge boost by Q-Tip, co-founder of A Tribe Called Quest, who stepped in to executive produce Brown’s latest uknowhatimsayin¿ (released earlier this month on Warp). With some assists from the likes of Jpegmafia, Run The Jewels, and Flying Lotus, the new record is as rubbery and loose as an ether high and as nasty as a festering wound. by Robert Ham