Danny Brown hit Milwaukee recently, bringing along fellow rappers Zelooperz and Maxo Kream. Touring in anticipation of the release of his new album, “Atrocity Exhibition,” the Detroit rapper has been on the road for just under a month now. Along the way, he has packed venue after venue with the cult following he’s been building through his absurd and bombastic experimentation with the genre.

The show was kicked off by Zelooperz, another Detroit rapper and fellow member of Brown’s entourage, the Bruiser Brigade.  While many were still arriving, Zelooperz was already beginning to throw the crowd into a frenzy that wouldn’t slow down anytime soon. Familiar songs of his such as “ISBD” and “Paypal” were giving the crowd quite a vocal warm up, with most of the attendees already shouting along. It ended with an exciting finale that featured the emcee entering the crowd and rapping a verse and hook before crowdsurfing back up.

Next in the lineup was Maxo Kream, a Houston rapper with a rapidly growing fan base. With a more traditional trap sound, this was an excellent break in between the two energetic, nasally alternative rappers proceeding and preceding him.  In spite of having a more mellow style than his tourmates, there was still energy building at this point in the night. Instant classics like “G3” and “Cell Boomin” had the entire room shaking, with Maxo’s hooks being practically roared back at him by the now even more hyped up (and drunk) crowd.

After two ferociously delivered openers, with the room already blistering and sweat drenched (primarily from the Rave’s lack of air conditioning), it was time for the main event. Coming onstage with an energetic delivery of “Die Like a Rockstar”, Brown really did bless the mic like gesundheit. With a set arranged in chronological order, the energy built almost flawlessly. Starting with tracks off of his commercial debut, Danny’s core fanbase showed their faces, shouting bar after bar of the cult classic venture. Naturally, the peak of the show came when Brown began performing songs off of “Old,” his last, more commercially geared album. The party-oriented bangers from this album like “Dip” and “Handstand” brought the entirety of the crowd together for a true spectacle. At this point, the crowd seemed directly in tune with Brown, prepared to shout his hooks and punchlines whether the man himself had the microphone to his face or not. As suggested by the chronological order, Brown closed the show with some cuts off of “Atrocity Exhibition,” with pre-released singles like “Really Doe” and “Pneumonia” drawing a response similar to that of the hits off of Old, and other, unreleased songs generating every bit as much energy.

After the rapper’s exit and an unfulfilled chant of “DAN-NY BROWN”, the crowd dispersed. Truly, this was a show that I doubt anyone present (and reasonably sober) will ever forget.