A relentless track of sexual appetite and club hedonism, 'Handstand' strips away pretence in favour of graphic appetite and boastful swagger. Danny Brown leans into the explicit, the repetitive, the unapologetic; the chorus reduces its subject to a single physical act, hammered home across verses that pile on detail without much variation in tone or intent. There is no irony here, no winking distance. It is what it says it is.
The production sits somewhere between trap and the looser, more narcotic end of club music, letting Brown's voice occupy the space between rap and sung delivery. He moves through the track with a kind of manic energy, piling on references (Twerk Team, Diplo, Balmain) and drug references that blur into the sexual ones. The effect is claustrophobic rather than celebratory; the repetition starts to feel less like emphasis and more like a kind of compulsion, a voice circling the same obsession without resolution or reflection.
"Handstand" is a track by Danny Brown, from the album Old, released 7th October 2013. The track is 2:55 long. It's filed under Electronic. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 9 articles about Danny Brown.