Danny Brown shared his perspective on hip-hop's recent absence from the Billboard Top 40 chart.⁠ ⁠ "Hip-hop don't belong there anyway!" he tells Billboard. "The dopest sh*t was never on the charts, so that means that there's a lot of dope sh*t around. To me that sounds like a reset is happening, sounds like a cleansing."⁠ ⁠ Brown highlights emerging artists like Skrilla as examples of creative hip-hop work happening outside the mainstream: "There's people doing cold sh*t everywhere, like somebody like Skrilla, what he's doing is fire." He further elaborates that he admires Skrilla's approach to discussing religion and humanizing addiction in his music.⁠ ⁠ Danny Brown's new album 'Stardust' is out now.⁠ ⁠ __⁠ 📝 by Mackenzie Cummings-Grady via @billboard⁠ 📸 (slide 2,4) by @arielfish⁠ #pigeonsandplanes #dannybrown #hiphop #billboard #skrilla