Danny Brown - Ain't It Funny

What this video is

Released March 28, 2017, as the fourth and final single from Danny Brown's critically acclaimed Atrocity Exhibition (Warp Records, 2016), 'Ain't It Funny' arrives at the intersection of experimental hip-hop's mainstream critical recognition and a broader cultural reckoning with addiction representation in media. The video deploys the visual grammar of late-1980s American family sitcoms — the era of Full House,…

Why it matters

A landmark text in experimental hip-hop visual culture, 'Ain't It Funny' represents the genre's capacity for high-concept, critically literate video art. It adapts the Adult Swim 'Too Many Cooks' model of sustained tonal subversion — using familiar televisual comfort to deliver genuinely…

The director

Jonah Hill (born December 20, 1983, Los Angeles, CA) is an American actor, writer, and director. Known for comedic roles in Superbad (2007), 21 Jump Street (2012), and dramatic performances in Moneyball (2011) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), earning two…