Basquiat Freestyle: Purity Ring & Danny Brown - "Belispeak II" (Corin Roddick Remix)
While Danny Brown has already worked with non-Hip-Hop cats like The Big Pink and
"[Danny] Brown, who first saw Purity Ring on their summer tour, expressed interest in wanting to work with the band via Twitter and the two then exchanged ideas through email." Corin Roddick managed to open up a pocket in the original "Belispeak" track, making sufficient room for Brown to lace it up with some brutal rhymes... flipping Megan James' concept and rapping about his little belly speak and painting an "evocative snapshot of his childhood in Detroit." Purity Ring then announced a second tour behind their debut full-length, Shrines on Wed. morning; with dates running from Jan. 10-Feb. 1st along with Young Magic. An official mp3 version of "Belispeak II" is now available for download over @ the 4AD label site, too. Purity Ring is [are] currently touring across Europe, which will eventually wrap up in Liverpool on Nov. 28th.