To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against . .

To be, or not to be" is the opening phrase of a soliloquy uttered by Prince Hamlet in the so-called "nunnery scene" of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1. In the speech, Hamlet contemplates death and suicide, bemoaning the pain and unfairness of life but acknowledging that the alternative might be worse. This version preserves most of the First Folio text with updated spelling and five common emendations introduced from the Second ("Good") Quarto (italicized).

Atrocity Exhibition can be seen as the third work in a trilogy that began with XXX. Here, Danny Brown's songs of pain and release are accompanied by dense sonics from all over the musical ma. Brown’s individual releases need to be understood as part of a whole, and in each of them, he has an obsession with form. Take the title of the first song, Downward Spiral. It’s a direct nod to XXX ’s opening track, where Brown prominently (and memorably) rapped: it’s the downward spiral, got me suicidal/But too scared to do it.

To die, to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.

When Hamlet expresses the ailed question, "To be, or not to be: that is the question:, Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer, The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles" (II. 59-61), there is trivial uncertainty that he is supposing of death, he is still left without an answer. of whether the "catapults and arrows of horrid fate" can be tolerated since life after death is so uncertain. He acknowledges that the response would be doubtlessly yes if death were like a dreamless slumber. By the conclusion of this soliloquy, however, he finally understands, "But that dread of something after death,, The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn, No traveler returns-puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have" (II.

02. Riot Act. 03. Funeral Hymn. 04. Children Of A Worthless God. 05. As It Was, As It Soon Shall Be. 06. The Atrocity Exhibition. 08. The Garden Of Bleeding. 09. Bedlam 1-2-3 - Banjoed By Blood.

On his fourth album, Atrocity Exhibition, Brown reigns things in: there are less straight up bangers on this album than on XXX or Old, but it’s altogether dirtier and darker than either of those. Danny Brown’s coke dreams are turning into nightmares. That Atrocity Exhibition sounds like neither backpack rap, hipster drivel nor dull trap, but something fresh that stands on its own is itself to be applauded. But that it’s so damn good too puts it among the best hip-hop albums in years.

Devoutly to be wish'd. Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution.

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