Danny Brown: Detroit State of Mind

June 30, 2012

Pitchfork.TV’s new documentary Danny Brown: Detroit State of Mind is an intimate look into the ordinary life of extraordinary Detroit rapper/style icon/spiritual icon, Danny Brown. The documentary takes you places most rappers won’t let you go–inside their home with their family, inside a car with their friends, inside the studio with near-uncomfortable closeness. Watch a rapper’s brother cut a rapper’s hair. Sit on a rapper’s couch and smoke cigarettes with a rapper’s parents. Drive around Detroit in a snow storm with a rapper and handle business with the Bruiser Brigade. And yes, go to the studio with a rapper and watch him stick out his tongue and rap a rap song.

It’s difficult to capture intimacy on camera. When intimacy situations are approached with intimate eyes, it’s easy for the camera to slip from gentle observation to pornographic exposure. Detroit State of Mind provides an intimate look into some very intimate situations with Danny Brown and the Bruiser Brigade. PitchforkTV achieved authenticity without corn, cliche, or sacrificing the satisfaction of a happy ending that just might make you cry.

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Jane Fader

Jane Fader received a Master’s degree from the Wayne State University Department of Communication, where she also completed her doctoral coursework in media studies and instructed courses in film, video production, and television criticism. She has written widely on the topics of sexuality and pornography, and produced an internationally awarded documentary about female ejaculation. Currently Jane does creative direction and marketing in the sexual wellness industry, instructs courses in Cultural Diversity and Information Literacy at IADT Detroit, and maintains her blog, janefader.com.