Really Doe

“Really Doe” is an uptempo posse cut featuring Danny Brown, Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, and Earl Sweatshirt, produced by Black Milk.

Danny revealed that Kendrick heard the unfinished song and wrote the hook and a verse, prompting Danny to finish the song:

“I didn’t do it, Kendrick did it. The song was in the studio and it was just an unfinished song. I was trying to figure out what I was gonna do with it—he just went to the studio and took it! Then it came back and he had a hook on it, a bridge, a 24, and then I reached out to Earl and Ab, you know what I’m saying, and we threw their verses on there. It’s really his song!“

The song originally premiered at a Danny Brown concert on September 18, 2016 before being aired on Hot 97 just days later.

“When I was making XXX, my top three rappers—the three guys that I was like, “Damn, I think they might rap better than me”—were Ab-Soul, Kendrick, and Earl. The guys I looked at as competition are now my friends. We’re like the Four Horsemen.

It’s always good to have that posse cut on a rap album, more so than just having features all over it. I wanted to have that one classic posse cut.“

- Danny Brown via Entertainment Weekly

Black Milk works mostly with Detroit rappers, but he’s had some pretty notable songs, including collaborations with Danny Brown and Kendrick Lamar—two of the rappers on “Really Doe.”