Flagrant - Andrew Schulz & Akaash Singh - Danny Brown's WEIRD Way of Surviving Prison

Oct. 13, 2022 - Flagrant - Andrew Schulz & Akaash Singh

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Danny Brown's WEIRD Way of Surviving Prison

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Danny Brown recounts surviving prison violence, including a "Timberland tree" head injury and a failed broom attack on inmate Jason, while describing county jail as a transformative "summer camp" where he bartered cigarettes and distributed contraband. He admits to being a terrible drug dealer who gave away free product and details his early rapping origins at age five in Detroit kindergarten, inspired by LL Cool J. Despite waiting until thirty for his first album, his unique fashion and controversial stage antics, like exposing himself at a concert due to Molly use, shaped his career. Ultimately, Brown reflects on reincarnation as potential hell if one returns as an animal, contrasting modern lean costs with his past Activator addiction. [Automatically generated summary]
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OnlyFans Cheating Scandal 00:04:23
	One of them just came up the blue.
	He's like, man, this ain't got no heater on him right now.
	We about to beat this up.
	I was like, what?
	What's up?
	I don't know what happened.
	All I remember, a face just got close to mine.
	Like, he did something, like, Michael Jackson.
	Waking me up.
	It was statues broke.
	I had a Timberland tree in the middle of my head.
	I remember waking up in the morning, looking in the mirror, like, this life ain't for me.
	So they whooped me bad.
	So I always had that grudge with these.
	And I'm like, I see the n ⁇ again.
	It's home.
	Breaking the registry.
	This locked up.
	He's sitting in the cell with the Cardi zone.
	And he's by himself, too.
	I fake it off.
	I go get a push broom.
	So as soon as I get in the cell, I try to hit the with the broom.
	This did some jet leash shit.
	Caught the broom.
	Nick caught the broom and gave me three stiff.
	She's like, boom.
	I dropped the broom and just ran out.
	What's up, everybody?
	Welcome to Flagrant.
	Today, we are joined by the one, the only Danny Brown.
	And Danny was just telling us about how taking mushrooms makes you cheat or something.
	What was it?
	I didn't say it, man.
	You were like, it told you to cheat.
	No, it's told me to jump out the window.
	And cheat.
	It said, get out the window and search for new vaginas.
	I mean, I think that's just like, it's an old Patrice O'Neill bit.
	Okay.
	You know what I mean?
	You're starting out right.
	You're starting out right.
	But he has the bit where he talks about like, cheating, really.
	Women have periods.
	Yeah, But a men.
	Shockingly unfair.
	Those are the words he uses.
	New pussy.
	You get what I'm saying?
	And you wonder why you ain't had no new pussy in years.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You chilling with your girl.
	She's like, why is this nigga so edgy?
	What's going on?
	We just, we having a great time.
	This nigga always angry.
	You know, you're like, oh.
	You wake up, like, oh, shit.
	I love you, baby.
	You're cheating on this camera without one.
	Come on, come on.
	Scam likely.
	We're going too far.
	You told us all the gold before we start recording.
	You know, we're going to bring it up.
	Yeah, it's true.
	I'm a one-woman man.
	Say again?
	A one-woman man.
	At a time?
	Right now.
	Okay.
	That is a beat man, bro.
	No, no.
	You did say something beautiful.
	You did say something beautiful about cheating.
	You were like, I don't want to cheat now because I'm lazy.
	Remember?
	Oh, yeah, it's over.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, I'm too old.
	I don't think I'm that good at the internet.
	You know, they get it.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Keep in mind, like, one of the artists that signed up to my label is a loopris.
	He's like the youngest guy in the crew.
	He's like, yeah, danny, you don't really know how to do the internet.
	You don't get it no more.
	I think I'm passed on.
	Like, I'm got to think.
	I'm from the old school.
	I'm from Rotten.com and all that shit.
	That's what we use the internet for to just see the most fucked up shit.
	But now the internet is your life.
	You know what I'm saying?
	That's your whole shit, your social media presence or whatever the fuck it is.
	So I do stay away from Twitter and Instagram as much as I possibly can because it is triggering.
	And then I got into TikTok.
	Not actually just being on TikTok, but you know, you're just watching TikTok.
	Yeah.
	Bitches on TikTok.
	What you thought this bitch do?
	You already had there.
	All my links.
	Click to all my links.
	That's how they get you, bro.
	That's scam, definitely.
	That's scam, definitely, bro.
	That's scam likely.
	And I'm not, I'm not an OnlyFans type nigga.
	I ain't gonna buy no bitch OnlyFans because I'm that good at the internet.
	I can figure out a way to get it for free.
	Oh, yeah.
	We're on that.
	So I'm a 4-chan ready guy.
	I'm bad.
	I'm bad news, man.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Why not support some of these young struggling women, though?
	What are you talking about?
	How did this come up?
	Nobody chose you to shake booty holes on the internet.
	We ain't gotta pay for that.
	Ain't gotta be a nigga that'd be like, I'm getting this for free.
	But there's specific stuff that you really like that you might have to pay for.
	Like when we first sat down here, you were like, I like fist thing or something, you know.
	I didn't say I liked it.
	What did you say?
	I said I just like the actual aspect that a person would do that to themselves.
	You're a special human being.
Jail Life and Laundry Hacks 00:15:36
	Yeah, yeah.
	Oh, yeah.
	You like the one percent.
	It's the will.
	He doesn't even like the action.
	He likes the willpower.
	It's like, oh, bitch, you doing shit like this?
	What else you gonna do?
	Yeah.
	Like the way you look at Cameron Haynes fucking hunting his own antelope.
	That's the answer.
	Got a woman who fits herself.
	Got you.
	Lance Armstrong.
	It's like Tor France.
	Exactly, exactly.
	It's biking.
	But it's not actually like, if we was to actually hook up, I'm just not like, that's something I'm about to go for.
	That's not something that's in my, you know, that's in my repertoire.
	You get what I'm saying?
	Right.
	But the psychology.
	Yeah.
	If you do that kind of shit, it's like, damn, that would, you know, it's like, yeah, yeah.
	Milkshake brings my boys to the yard.
	She's like, what can I do?
	That is stupid.
	Hey, that's that kind of situation, man.
	Got you, got you.
	Now, do you think this is because you think this is because you lived the rap life and experienced so much crazy shit that everything's normal?
	I think it's fucked up that my mom used to listen to Too Short when I was a kid.
	That is crazy.
	So my mom used to listen to Too Short a lot.
	So my, I think what does she like about it?
	I have a warp perception of what rap music is, probably.
	Because rap music was, you know, it's all about the community, teaching people, telling everybody.
	Like, you got to think like back in the day, like KRS1 and motherfuckers like that, but it started with Too Shorty.
	So all my shit is about fucking bitches.
	He was just having a big argument.
	And she was like, man, you know, I mean, you rap about fucking bitches and you make it funny.
	And that's a thing, but I know you're doing podcasting and you know, you're getting into comedy now.
	You can talk about other shit.
	Yeah.
	But I'm like, that's the only thing that's kind of funny to me.
	And everybody can relate.
	That's true.
	But I guess she is kind of right.
	I mean, I am smarter than that to just be, you know, sitting around talking about bitches all day.
	But what I do with my homies.
	Yeah.
	I mean, do you try to be smart with the boys?
	It sucks.
	It sucks that podcasts that became this thing because I feel like even the podcast out, like, it's just feel like you just eavesdropping on the conversation with some homies.
	Yeah.
	When it's too overproduced and everybody's like being on point and they're saying shit to not get canceled, that's the shit I don't like.
	Yeah.
	It's boring.
	Because that's not what you would do with your friends.
	Exactly.
	And if that's the experience you want where you're just hanging out with your boys, you don't want anybody polished.
	Feels like somebody's wearing a wire or something like that.
	Then it's an uncomfortable environment.
	It's just not cool.
	Yeah.
	I was doing a little research on you because I'm a journalist.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	And big journalist.
	Big time journalists.
	And just wait.
	You like jail.
	I'm not going to say I like jail.
	I just think it was an experience that saved my life.
	Like, I mean, you know, if he's probably like a white kid, grew up in the suburbs and shit.
	Your mom sent you to summer camp.
	Yeah.
	I never went through that.
	I'm from the hood.
	I'm from Detroit.
	You're saying jail is black summer camp?
	It was my summer camp.
	I went there and it made me discover who I was, kind of, because I'm you alone.
	And, you know, I've always had family.
	You got friends, gangs, or whatever.
	Fucking, you know, you always feel protected in the hood.
	You know, you got some status for yourself or whatever.
	Everybody's going to look out for you.
	But when I went to jail, all that shit erased.
	How long were you in jail?
	I only did a year.
	I was in the county, which is even worse.
	Yeah, yeah.
	If I would have got you got fed, it's a little bit easier.
	But I did the most you could possibly do in the county.
	I did a year and then, which is eight months, but I kept getting caught smoking cigarettes and doing shit.
	So I was getting extra time.
	Like, I think I did like two months extra time on what I was supposed to do.
	It was like, damn, you having this much fun in this motherfucker?
	Exactly.
	But I will say, you meet the funniest motherfuckers in the world are in jail.
	Wow.
	Like, you're literally saying stand-up sets every day.
	Really?
	Like, the first time.
	Well, because you guys just got to entertain one another.
	There's nothing else going on.
	It's that whole thing.
	And I think before I went to jail, I was kind of like more shy.
	I probably didn't talk a lot.
	Like, how I am now.
	Like, I'm funny to everybody and all that kind of shit.
	I can just get into a room and just start talking and be like, I never was like that before that.
	And I went there and I was by myself.
	I couldn't.
	I didn't have nobody.
	So you got it.
	You won't talk.
	You're going to, nigga, gonna punk you.
	It's gonna be some shit.
	Did it happen?
	Anybody try you?
	See, it was, see, I'm an ill nigga.
	What happened was, I swear to God, what happened was when I first got to jail, I was like normal everybody else.
	I worked in the kitchen.
	Yeah.
	And, you know, washing dishes and shit.
	We call that, they call that water world because you're about to be wet as fuck no matter what you do.
	It sounds funny, kind of.
	Water world was terrible.
	So I worked in water world, but I had.
	It really is summer kill.
	So I was working in water world.
	So I'm working in water world and shit, but you know, on my rock, that's what they call your premise.
	My rock, it was, you know, you got a rock boss.
	And my rock boss worked in registry.
	Okay.
	And registry is literally the best job you can get in jail because registry is when all the inmates come in and they get registered.
	So whatever an inmate has on them, you know, they just throw it in the garbage.
	You working at registry, you're the one that got to take the garbage out.
	So you're taking out garbage, you're getting all the cigarettes, all the weed, all the whatever the fuck.
	So you get what I'm saying?
	So you the guy, so really the person, people that work at registry is the one that pulls the supply to jail with cigarettes.
	You know, you're taking all the jail from registry, then you selling them to other rocks and shit like that.
	Are you supposed to?
	Sorry to interrupt us, but like when you go to jail, are you supposed to bring like a pack of cigarettes that you know is going to be taken, but that's your kind of gift?
	No, I mean, I think planning don't go.
	Most people don't plan when they all get arrested.
	Like I got to have a bunch of people.
	Can we stop at the chevron?
	I got a survival pack on me and my balls are going to be.
	You're going to like a baby shower or something?
	What are you talking about, man?
	You should apply it.
	Bro, I'm just saying, you know it is.
	You know what I mean?
	You got to spread booty hole when you come to that motherfucker, man.
	That's part of registry, too.
	I used to do it every day.
	Bro, because when you work in Water World, they expect, you know, a nigga going to steal some food or something.
	You're going to sneak something back up to the rock.
	So when you get your ass.
	So when you get back up to the rock, the CEO of that rock, he'd be like, nuts and boats, nuts and boats.
	That means get butt-necked, spread that booty hole.
	But you know me, I was still sneaking shit up.
	But in your booty hole?
	No, I would sneak cigarettes up.
	I would cut.
	You see how your t-shirt shit like this?
	That's why you like fisting.
	I was going to say it, bro.
	That's a little fun.
	Oh, let me give you a story.
	Let me tell you a story.
	So my rock boss, they would sit in their fucking dorm room, him and his friends, and they would be rapping.
	And it's the most terrible rapping you can possibly hear.
	And you know me, I really does this shit.
	But I don't help people.
	It's not like I'm going to be like, nigga, I got bars.
	I got bars.
	I don't do that.
	That's embarrassing, kind of.
	So I was shut up.
	And I maybe probably went through it for like months and months of just hearing these niggas on a Saturday when we on our off day.
	And they're in their room just doing terrible rap and rapping to each other.
	So I just think one day I just got fed up.
	And I just kicked in a dope, like, nigga, boom, I'm going to show y'all how this shit really done.
	And I started rapping for the niggas and just kicked them spray some ill shit.
	Cause I was writing in jail all the time too.
	So I just kicked them pricing ill shit.
	And this nigga was like, he just got enamored by me.
	And I became like the right-hand man to the rock boss on the rock.
	So he like, nigga, when I leave, when I leave, when I get out of here, I'm going to give you my registry job.
	Wow.
	Oh, so you got hooked up.
	So I left Waterworld and he put me in registry.
	Now, the thing about registry is, like I said, this is all the new inmates coming in.
	So let's just say, you know, court days, you're the guy responsible for passing out sandwiches to niggas.
	So every day you about to get into it with a nigga over the sandwiches.
	Or I might see a nigga because this niggas is saying shit to you.
	Oh, you police ass nigga working with these police.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Come on, nigga.
	So you got to think, all these niggas going to court.
	They either about to go home or they about to go to the penitentiary or about to be in the county.
	So everybody's on edge.
	You got to go in the cell, clean up after these niggas and do shit like that.
	You get what I'm saying?
	So what I would do is, this is how I avoid a beef.
	I will find the biggest inmate I can possibly see.
	And be like, how much time you got in this bitch?
	And they be like, he's like, I'm about to get out or I'm about to go to the penitentiary.
	I'm about to be here for like six months.
	Oh, you're coming down working with me.
	So you get the biggest biggest nigga.
	So when I'm passing out sandwiches and shit, I got this six.
	Yeah, Tell him he police.
	And then, for part two, in jail, they used to call me Snoop.
	Because I had long French braids and shit.
	I'm obviously tall and skinny.
	So everybody called me Snoop in jail.
	And I remember one time he pulled me to the side and he's like, you know, he figured out I finessed him for protection.
	You get what I mean?
	Like, Snoop, you wouldn't go through a lot of this shit if you wasn't so self-centered.
	You need to have a little more empathy for people.
	You got self-aware, motherfucker.
	Go to therapy, man.
	Go to therapy.
	Can doctors still in jail?
	Dr. Kelga.
	We in jail.
	And it's one place to be self-centered.
	Yes, motherfucker.
	What is you talking about right now?
	We surviving, man.
	He's like, yeah, Snoop, you just need to have a little more empathy.
	Oh, fuck.
	For inmates?
	That's not baloney sandwiches, Snoop.
	Got me fucked up.
	Oh, so to say that again, I was the nigga in charge of all the cigarettes.
	Yeah.
	So for the entire time that I was in jail, nobody got cigarettes.
	I smoked them all.
	No more selling cigarettes.
	They hated me.
	You saved their lives, though.
	They hated them.
	The whole jail hated.
	I was so ill with this shit.
	I would only just barter them.
	You know what I'm saying?
	I like, bro, I was so ill.
	It was one point in time, I was just so plugged into the jail.
	You crazy.
	I got the biggest nigga with me.
	I'm doing cartel shit in the county jail, man.
	Cartel sells the drugs.
	I would.
	I need some cigarettes.
	You're going to braid my hair.
	You're a tyrant.
	You're a tyrant.
	I had the freshest braids in jail.
	And you picked the dude to do it.
	I didn't know.
	It was just one guy.
	I mean, they want the cigarettes.
	But he was like, because when you get to the shit, it's the nigga.
	Shit like this.
	You sitting in between his legs and shit.
	Nah, son.
	Oh, no.
	Get a buzz cut, bro.
	If you have a traditional nigga braiding your hair, nobody should be braiding your shit.
	Y'all forgot about this part.
	I had bitches.
	We forgot about it.
	Oh, I forgot about it.
	So this is what I need to do, too.
	So, being that I work registry, not only do I have to service all the male inmates, I got to serve the female inmates.
	Oh, so you actually got to go over there.
	I would get the court slips.
	Good save.
	The what?
	I would get the court slips.
	Of course, every bitch, you're going to see what they're going through and this and that.
	And now I see a bitch, I know her number.
	I'll be like, oh, that's Courtney Johnson, inmate number five out.
	And I just write the bitch a note.
	Send it to her.
	You know, I'm the one that worked registry.
	I was gave you the sandwich the other day.
	You a bad bitch.
	You know, we both are here going through it.
	You know what I'm saying?
	We can help our time go a little bit easier with communication.
	You know what I'm saying?
	So, I see you when you come down for work, I throw you an extra little something.
	I got cigarettes too, you know, cigarettes.
	You know what I'm saying?
	You were listening to too short.
	If you had access to the women, why not let them braid your hair?
	No, I can't.
	I can't.
	You can't go in there.
	Oh, all we had was a window.
	When you have a window, if you was on this certain floor, which was the best rock to be on, you can look out the window and then you can see the bitches' floor too.
	And we'll be in the window jacking off and shit.
	They show me TV.
	One of my homies got caught.
	One of my homies got caught jacking in the window.
	He got sent back to Greens.
	Because you know, when you work registry, that's when you're in oranges.
	You know, they put you in an orange uniform.
	And being in orange, you got a little more leniency.
	You're getting more food.
	You're getting just a better way of living in county jail.
	Being in Greens is like literally gladiator school.
	Like you sleeping in like 12-man bunk tears, shit like that.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Bro, I was in Greens one day, man.
	That shit was, bro.
	That shit was the scariest shit in my life.
	Soon as the motherfucking, soon as it went dark, it's like lights out.
	You just seen everybody covered.
	It was like squid game, bro.
	I had out of the car.
	I know.
	I'm in that bitch in the fetal position.
	Like, I can't wait to get the oranges, man.
	That shit was crazy.
	See, I was writing all the bitches in there.
	One of my bitches got eight years, man.
	I rolled her through her whole fucking court time, man.
	What did she do?
	She stabbed the bitch over her boyfriend.
	The bitch showed up.
	Her boyfriend was fucking with another bitch or something.
	The bitch showed up on some fighting shit.
	And she just trying to protect herself, stabbed the bitch.
	They gave her manslaughter.
	She got eight years for that shit.
	Did you guys ever hook up or was just notes?
	Just notes.
	Did you pick them based off their crimes?
	No, it'd be bad.
	How they look, man.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	You got to think, man.
	Drug dealing niggas got bad bitch.
	They answered a lot of shit.
	You know, that'd be some, you'll see some crazy shit in jail.
	Like, damn, bitch, what you doing in here?
	Yeah.
	What you doing in here?
	So, Alex is in his previous life used to put black people in jail.
	No, I was a court officer.
	Oh, okay.
	I just made sure you guys sit down and take your hat off while you was in trouble.
	I know.
	He's so stockless.
	You the feds, bro.
	Sure.
	There you go.
	All right.
	So at what point do you start going back to women braiding your hair?
	Or do you always stay with guys?
	So I was, it was just a time.
	You know, you look dirty in jail.
	Your braids is all fucked up and shit.
	And it was just like I was just, I put the word out that I was looking for a hair braider.
	And then one of the guys, he's like, oh, his whole story was that his mom worked crazy hours at work.
	And then he was just had all little sisters.
	He was the older brother.
	Yeah, I heard that one.
	So he used to have to.
	I had to take care of my sister.
	My mom was hard at work.
	Yeah.
	I'm going to tell you the worst part about that.
	You believe that shit, bro?
	It's whatever.
	Brad, I ever seen all type of shit.
	I'm writing notes to these inmates, bitches.
	I got to look good.
	What are you talking about?
	I probably, too.
	I was wearing Rick Orange every day.
	Come on, bro.
	Rick Orange inmate.
	That's how it was so into fashion.
	Still in jail.
	So I got cool.
	I got cool with a nigga that worked in laundry, and I would make him give me the biggest shirts he can find and the smallest pants he can find.
	So my inmate outfits look different anyway.
	And then I was able to get my Air Max 97s out of the property.
	I paid, so I'm the only nigga wearing Air Max 97.
	You thought it was 95 since you like it.
	No, 95s is my favorite.
	Yeah.
	But I had 97s when I got locked up.
	That's why I never wear them again.
	I'll never buy a pair of 97s again.
	Because they remind you of getting your hair braided by a guy.
	Yeah.
	It just go to jail, man.
	And I love Air Max 97s, man, but I could never wear them again because it just reminded me of being in jail, man.
	Yeah.
	All silver with the red night.
	It seems like jail wasn't that bad for you, though.
	Yeah, you seem like you wanna say this.
	It's summer camp.
	Yeah, but why don't this is like a show?
	This is a TV show.
	That's what I was thinking at the time.
	It's a comedy.
	Oh, that would be a funniest ass show.
	Hell yeah.
	Oh, part.
	Oh, man.
	I was making these niggas watch America's Top Model.
	These niggas be mad.
Revenge Sex and 97s 00:14:59
	Like, man, put the pissing came on.
	No, we watch America's Top Model.
	You ain't having to do this.
	Dude, jerking off around you.
	You had no watching.
	I had the cigarettes.
	So I can always just give you a cigarette to shut the fuck up.
	Any given time?
	I'm talking.
	I'm in my bunk.
	I've got 30 packs.
	Where are the cigarettes?
	I'm just hiding my room.
	So every time I got raided, I would get caught.
	That's how I gained the extra time.
	Oh, but you kept your job as registry, even though you got caught.
	Yeah, because I was Snoop and they were scared to get another inmate.
	They were already comfortable with me at that point.
	The CEOs were.
	Yeah.
	They looked.
	I was funny to them.
	They were like, oh, part two, they used to always tell me, like, you're not an inmate.
	Like, I don't know what happened in your life, but this is not for you.
	And I hope you never come back.
	I hope I never, because most people, you know, they always say you're going to come back.
	But you, they didn't want that.
	Next time they saw me, I was on magazine covers and shit.
	All my CEOs used to hit me up on Twitter, Instagrams, all that shit.
	Like, man, Snoop, you did it.
	I can't believe you.
	I can't believe you did this shit.
	And it was, yeah, it was crazy.
	But see, even when I was getting my hair braided, I was doing like, they would swap me out for another inmate on another rock because the inmate that was braiding the hair, he was the best hairbraider.
	He wouldn't know my rock.
	So I was that cool with the CEO.
	They would take another, they'd just wake you up, like, nigga, Snoop about to come get his hair braided.
	Go over here.
	You got to go with me.
	You don't even know for a couple hours while I'm over there getting my shit braided.
	Get the fuck out of here.
	Now, were you like this outside of prison too?
	Did you run somebody?
	That's what I'm trying to tell you.
	I was an introvert before that.
	I was a spy worker.
	He was a required drug dealer.
	Yes.
	Living his life.
	I was a terrible drug dealer, to be honest.
	Wait, why?
	Because I always trying to get my dick sucked.
	You a corny ass dude, bro.
	I could never make my re-up because I'm giving away free rocks all the time.
	I always got a lot to you.
	I think somebody stole my sad somebody did steal your sass.
	Somebody's more addicted than they were.
	Yo, that's crazy.
	Oh, that's so funny.
	Okay, so wait, did now Tom, because I was talking to Tom, he's like, yo, get him to tell you a story when he got revenge on a dude in jail.
	Revenge?
	Yeah.
	Someone fuck you over or something like that?
	And you had to get revenge on them?
	No, I don't think I ever really.
	I don't know.
	That's what Tom told me.
	I don't think I've ever really been to you.
	That's what I told you.
	I was bartering cigarettes for everything in life.
	I got to look to see.
	There was a few times.
	I don't know.
	Maybe it's something I'm just not remembering, but no, I can't think offhand that I ever been in like real trouble.
	Oh!
	Was there maybe a cleaning utensil that you might have used?
	This is what happened.
	This was a nigga from the street.
	So what happened was, you know, when you're selling drugs, there's always other drug dealing crews that y'all beef with.
	So these niggas was another drug dealing crew.
	And one time, I went out to a nightclub and I just got a little too drunk.
	And I was just having a little too much fun, you know?
	And I went back to the hotel that we were staying at.
	It was actually my little brother homecoming.
	He's starting to get older and shit.
	So we was like taking him out.
	We got him a hotel room and all that type of shit.
	So we went back to the hotel room and just so happened, as soon as I go into the lobby, the niggas we beefing with is in the lobby.
	But I'm, you know, we both ignoring each other, kind of acting like we don't see each other.
	But then I see these two bitches and I'm like, you can't help yourself.
	What's up with the bitches?
	And I'm started talking to the bitches.
	Part two, these niggas, bitches.
	Come on.
	So I just put myself in a line of fire.
	And it's the crazy shit.
	We come into the hotel 10 deep.
	Everybody going to the elevator for me to show them where the room at except me.
	So they all, because I hadn't seen these bitches.
	Now I'm trying to talk to these bitches.
	And next thing I know, one of the niggas came up the blue.
	He's like, man, this nigga ain't got no heater on him right now.
	We about to beat this nigga up.
	I was like, what?
	Nigga, what's up?
	Started trying to talk my gangster shit.
	And then one of the homies actually came in that didn't come in the group with the elevator.
	Came and he started trying to break it up.
	Like, leave it alone, Danny.
	Come on, come on.
	And he did break it up.
	He did break it up.
	And then I'm like, you know, just the drunk courage, something in me.
	Fuck that.
	Fuck these niggas.
	And I run back up in there, square my shit up.
	I don't know what happened.
	All I remember, a nigga's face just got close to mine.
	Like he did something like Michael Jackson thing.
	And then niggas was waking me up.
	It was statues broke.
	It was grass.
	It was a crime scene.
	Now all my homies coming out the elevator.
	Like, what the fuck happened?
	I'm talking about my state.
	I had a Timberland tree in the middle of my head.
	I remember waking up in the morning, looking in the mirror, like, this life ain't for me.
	I want to go back to school.
	I think I need to, I think I need to join Job Corps or something like that.
	So, yeah, so they whooped me bad.
	And so I always had that grudge with these niggas.
	And I'm like, yeah, I see them niggas again at some.
	Yeah.
	Working in registry.
	One day I got the big ass nigga with me.
	This nigga locked up.
	He's the guy who put the Timberland on your head.
	One of them.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But he's like the main guy.
	He's like the most popular guy with the crew.
	So now I see him.
	His name is Jason.
	I said, oh, this nigga Jason in here.
	So I see the nigga, but I didn't plan it out too good.
	Part two.
	You know, Cartier glasses.
	Yeah.
	That's like a big staple in Detroit.
	Yeah.
	He's in the jail cell with his cartier glasses on.
	That right there should have gave me a sign.
	Leave this nigga alone.
	There's no possible way he got his cardio.
	They put the take the cardies from you.
	So you want some status shit to even have the Cardi's.
	He's sitting in the cell with the Cardi's on, and he's by himself too.
	I fake it off.
	I go get a push broom.
	I go get the push broom and I'm fake it like I'm about to go in there and clean the cell and shit.
	And you know, his cameras everywhere, so everybody can watch it.
	So as soon as I get in the cell, try to hit the nigga with the broom.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Like on some shit.
	I try to hit the nigga with the broom.
	This nigga did some jet leash shit.
	Caught the broom.
	The nigga caught me, caught the broom, and gave me three stiff bitches.
	That's all I just call it.
	Stiff bitches.
	Man, straight to the nose.
	Like, boom.
	I just, I dropped the broom and just ran out.
	Like, oh, he's crazy.
	He's crazy in here.
	Because, yeah, I'm like, you know, I'm like, they seen it on camera.
	So we're about to bust in this bitch anytime anymore.
	But they be like, yo, Snoop, we seen you start that shitty whoop your ass.
	So all the CEOs joking on me now.
	That was the entire joke before I left.
	So yeah, that's the revenge story.
	Come on, bro.
	Three stiff bitches.
	Three still bitches.
	I didn't have a backup plan.
	That's what I said.
	I didn't plan this out right now.
	I just emotions and you crazy.
	Somebody hit you with the Michael Jackson camera.
	This nigga caught the broom, man.
	And moonwalk out there.
	I ate him.
	I ate him like a G.
	I got up out of there after that.
	I don't know if I got on this.
	This is a different weight class.
	So yeah, I think our beef ended there, man.
	It's over with.
	Okay, good.
	So Jason's good in your book.
	I ain't got no smoke with that nigga.
	I learned my lesson.
	Did he get cigarettes while he was in jail at least?
	No, I ain't giving that nigga shit.
	Fuck that nigga.
	He probably did now.
	All right, so you get out of jail.
	Right?
	And you got confidence now.
	You know, you can run some shit.
	He got to be dead in jail still.
	I worry Jason still walking the streets living in a hole.
	Yeah, you better hope, bro.
	That's crazy.
	He's going to see this shit.
	It's coming for you.
	How did you, how did you end up getting your dick suck on stage?
	Doing too much, Molly.
	Was that it?
	This is really my fault.
	I really think it was Illuminati secret agent just to destroy my rap career.
	Think you just have a sex addiction that's never crossed your mind?
	I mean, I think everybody have a sex addiction.
	That's what addicts say, bro.
	Everyone loves alcohol.
	When you're blaming the Illuminati instead of, I need my dick sucked all the time.
	Let me tell you this.
	Take us through it.
	Take us through it.
	So, this day, I mean, you know, this is like early in my career.
	It's like, you know, I'm just not starting to really get cracking like that, you know?
	And so I got this show, whatever.
	And I was at the time I was doing a shit tone of Molly.
	That was my drugger choice.
	So I was just doing Molly like every day.
	So I'm always horny and like weird and shit.
	So it was a lot of girls at the show and they were feeling the boy, you know.
	So, but it was like, like I would be rapping and I'd be like on this corner, but like a group of girls and they'd be like rubbing me, like grabbing my dick and shit and all that shit and doing all, you know, just being creepy.
	But then I'll go on the other side of the stage.
	It's like one 50-year-old looking old white lady.
	And she's doing the same thing, but she's going a little further than everybody else.
	That's what I'm saying.
	I think it was a planet agent.
	And this is the time I used to wear, I used to wear Rick Owens all the time, you know what I'm saying?
	So I had the long t-shirt to hang down to your knees and shit.
	So, you know, they keep grabbing my dick and shit.
	You know, after Molly, I'm like, I think I want to feel the real deal.
	So I go back to my DJ booth.
	I just pop the motherfucker out a little bit.
	You know what I'm saying?
	So now I'm in front of the stage full charge.
	So you took your own dick out first.
	So when I went to her side of the stage, she grabbed that book.
	Oh, it's real.
	So then she just pulled the shirt up and started doing her thing.
	Kept rapping.
	Oh, yeah.
	I mean, I got to do the show.
	I mean, I was paid to do a job.
	And did you let her finish?
	No, no.
	The thing was, it just got so crazy.
	It just was so fucked up because you got to think, man, there's a lot of guys at the show, too.
	And they were like getting smushed and smashed.
	And they were getting closer and closer to the dick.
	I was just seeing the look of horror on niggas' faces.
	What if Jason just grabbed that bitch?
	Three stiff bitches.
	So I felt bad.
	So obviously to myself, I'm like, after the show, this is who I'm fucking.
	You got it.
	Yeah.
	So where you at, bitch?
	So I bring the bitch, I get her, and I bring her backstage.
	She's like, I'm on my period.
	I can't do nothing.
	I can't go nowhere.
	And then just left.
	And she had like a scary look on her.
	Everything about it was just weird.
	I'm like, dude, this was a government secret agent that was sitting here.
	And what were you doing that the government want to stop?
	I was too good at rap.
	Too good at rap.
	That has happened with the government before.
	They got to see what is his weakness.
	What is his weakness?
	And then they show you how we can fuck this nigga up.
	They found it.
	Yeah, they got me.
	They got you with sex.
	Yes.
	That's men.
	I'm a real man.
	I'm a real man.
	Did that hurt your career?
	That situation?
	I would say so.
	How?
	I would say so.
	Because that was like the biggest moment of my career.
	So more people know about that shit and they know about my actual fucking music.
	Like I was on entertainment tonight.
	All type of...
	And I'm like, why is this happening?
	Like, I'm seeing all type of shit.
	Everybody's reporting about it.
	CNE and all that type of shit, but they wouldn't talk about my music.
	They talk about me normally.
	But I tried to spend it until I got sexually assaulted.
	But this is before the cancel stage, so it didn't really work out, right?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And now that I know that you whipped it out first, it makes it a little harder to prove that point.
	Yeah.
	I don't want to talk about it no more.
	You should have just made it.
	You should have just made it your thing.
	Get my dick.
	That's a good point.
	So after that show, I think I came to New York maybe a few dates later.
	And you know how you want to get content and shit.
	And they was like interviewing people online.
	And I remember this one dude in line.
	He's like, man, I don't know who Danny Brown is, but if he's getting this dick sucked at shows and he got bitches like that in the crowd, I'm definitely pulling up.
	So it became this thing of where guys thought the girls at my shows was free cars.
	So what happened was I would always get these messages from girls and be like, Danny, I love you.
	I'm a huge fan and all that shit.
	I love your music and shit, but I can't go to your shows.
	The guys there are so fucking creepy as they fucked up.
	So it got to the point where I wanted to, I stopped trying to make that kind of music just to not even, you know, so I don't like rap about like getting my dick suck songs and shit.
	Like I would like make a three minute long song about getting my dick sucked.
	You know what I'm saying?
	But now I wouldn't do that no more.
	Can't even rap about your passion.
	But now it's a sausage fan.
	Now I go to my shows.
	It's not one bitch.
	You're back in prison.
	That's what it is.
	Ain't nobody breaking here though.
	There's no upside here.
	At least they had good workout programs.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Soft Peter.
	White lady tried to do it.
	What?
	Suck your dick?
	The 50-year-old?
	Oh, at the show?
	Yeah.
	She was white.
	Yeah, it was a white lady.
	Oh, bro.
	She had no business being there.
	Your first white lady?
	My first white lady?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Bro, I'm from the days of Black Planet.
	What does that mean?
	I would go on Black Planet just for the white bitches.
	Wait, white?
	Wait, I didn't even know that was the same.
	I was a real dicker.
	Hold on, hold on, hold on.
	Explain Black Planet to everybody.
	I've never heard of this.
	I've never heard of this.
	Black Planet was a website for dating for black people.
	But every now and then, you'll see some white bitches on that motherfucker because they want some niggas.
	You get what I'm saying?
	You know what I'm talking about.
	You know, yeah.
	I feel like that wasn't real white girls, though.
	You fucking the type of white bitches on Black Planet.
	They niggas too.
	You know what I'm saying?
	I had to grow up in my status of getting a white bitch.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Like, these ain't real white bitches.
	These bitches just worse as us.
	These bitches, these bitches, EBT card bitches.
	A white bitch with an EBT card is dangerous.
	Three baby daddies that's all black.
	Oh, man.
	You a black bitch?
	So I was like, man, these ain't real white bitches, man.
	I got to step my shit up.
	Yeah.
	And then when did you step your shit up?
	I guess when I get that thing now.
	Now?
	Now you know what a quality white woman is.
	Because before, you know, you just, whatever.
	You just doing whatever.
	See, I was one of those guys, man.
	Detroit is predominantly black.
	You know, everybody talk about interracial relationships and all that shit.
	And I just, motherfuckers be attracted to who they're attracted to.
	And I don't know.
	It's just something in me.
	I was always attracted to white women ever since I was born.
	I don't feel bad about it.
	You get what I'm saying?
	I remember fucking driving past the Catholic school, seeing that motherfucker let out.
	All them bitches come out with that skirt on.
	I'm on the bus going to motherfucking sweeten house to go work, wash dishes and shit, looking at that shit like one day, bitch.
	Damn, I had one of you.
	This nigga was always.
	This is the most horny dude.
	This is crazy.
	And then.
	I mean, like I said, it was a hard, because, you know, as a nigga, you got to start out fucking fat white bitches.
	Right, right, right, right.
	Why is that?
	That's a gateway drug.
	Because that's what they want.
	You know, you got to go with who like you first.
	Yeah.
	You know what I'm saying?
	I like the lights.
	So if you like white women as a nigga, you ain't got no money or a place to live.
	Yeah.
	Fat white bitches are goal.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	What?
Fat White Bitches and Comedy Clubs 00:05:12
	Saving your life.
	So many couches I've slept on.
	What?
	Eating monkeys, all that kind of shit.
	Wait, what?
	Eating the monkey off.
	Yeah, I miss.
	I miss the easy one.
	What race has the best sex?
	What race fucks the best?
	I mean, I wouldn't know, but in my head, I would think all the like the Latina Mexicans, because the, come on, I think they shit just crazy for some reason.
	I did not know.
	You never tried that?
	You never had sex with Latina?
	And they don't like me.
	Why do you think?
	Come on, you gotta try it again.
	I don't live in New York.
	That's another thing, too.
	Yeah, but you live in Texas.
	And I have, I'm a one-woman man.
	I have a wife now.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So, yeah.
	Yeah, but I do.
	Oh, you're married.
	Trying to be trying to be.
	Soon.
	You don't have a wife now.
	You might have a wife one day soon.
	I want to marry the girl that I'm with now.
	And then what's stopping you?
	Financial reasons.
	Do I believe you?
	That's what you gotta tell her.
	Like, when I get the money right.
	Yeah.
	When I get the money right.
	Scam likely.
	But no, I mean, I do.
	Because I'm done.
	I'm old right now.
	Now I'm 41 years old.
	You're out the game.
	At this point, it's just creepy.
	Yeah.
	Like that, you know.
	And if she leaves me, I know I'm doomed because then I'm just going to be back to bro.
	During COVID, I was doing like an eight-ball a day, drinking a fifth of liquor.
	Really?
	Bro, four bitches, bro.
	Tripping every day.
	Like, I was destroying my life fast.
	I gained like 20 pounds before I moved it.
	When I moved to Texas, she saved my life.
	She moved you.
	I mean, you know, it was just, I was, I was going out there all the time, dating her.
	Yeah.
	You know what I'm saying?
	And then when Tom talked about moving the network to Austin, it's just like the light bud just clicked in my head.
	Like, he's like, moving to Austin.
	I'm like, I'm moving to Austin too then.
	Yeah.
	And then I moved with her.
	And I lived with her like a year before we even got this shit going.
	Really?
	You know, and she saved my life, man, because she got me off drugs really.
	And just I really like, I mean, obviously, I'm still gonna booze.
	I'm still gonna drink, man.
	Yeah.
	Just like, you know, going to comedy clubs and just being around.
	It's just socially though.
	But if I'm at the crib, I'm not drinking anything.
	Coke.
	No, I haven't done Coke in so long.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	No, I didn't like a couple days ago.
	By mistake.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, it's by mistake.
	Yeah, why?
	How do you think you're mistakenly doing it?
	Because I'm just hanging out with the wrong people.
	And it was like a few lines left on the table.
	And I'm like, fuck, I'm going to hit her.
	You didn't want to leave a mess.
	That's an accident for sure.
	Yeah.
	Like, man, whatever.
	Let's tidy up.
	I don't think it even, I don't even think it worked.
	It didn't do nothing.
	I mean, did you do it if you didn't get high?
	Like, really?
	I don't think it worked.
	I don't think it worked.
	Now, Dr. Umar Johnson.
	Hilarious.
	One of my favorite comedians.
	The GOAT?
	He's one of my favorite comedians.
	Have you ever had a conversation with him?
	Oh, he'll hate me.
	Why?
	Because I love white women.
	The snow bunnies.
	Yeah, I'm his enemy.
	But you're not.
	He's going to try to convert me.
	Yeah.
	I wish he would convert me.
	To what?
	To whatever he does.
	Oh, you don't like white women.
	So what?
	You don't like white women?
	I'm married, dude.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah.
	I think she's white.
	I love Dr. Umar Johnson.
	No, he's hilarious to me.
	He is, yeah, he's a genius, like genius communicator.
	But he scammed him with the school.
	Did he?
	Where's the school?
	How long did LeBron take to make the school?
	I don't know.
	He's only got LeBron's money.
	Seems like LeBron could snap.
	LeBron is in Multiversus, man.
	Yeah.
	When you're a video game character, have you seen, you know, this game I'm talking about?
	No.
	It's this new video game.
	It's called Multi-Versus.
	Pretty much like Smash Brothers.
	Okay.
	LeBron, they have LeBron.
	Like, it's like Bucks Bunny, Tom Jerry.
	Like, it's got all those characters and shit like that.
	But LeBron is an actual character in it.
	But you can put whoever you want as a commentator.
	Okay.
	And I put LeBron as my commentator.
	Like, let's go.
	Hit him with the punch.
	You're like, whoa.
	But I don't think it's LeBron.
	I think it's actually somebody that they got.
	Doing an impression of LeBron.
	And I feel like it's the most racist shit I've seen in my life.
	How do you know some black people doing the impression?
	It gotta be white, dude.
	Really?
	Bro.
	It's too over the top?
	Bro.
	I don't think a nigga would be saying shit like that.
	Like what?
	Let's go.
	The baby.
	He says that a lot.
	He goes, the baby?
	The baby says that a lot.
	Oh, yeah.
	Let's go.
	Let's go.
	So you might be right.
	I guess some niggas should do.
	I can admit when I'm wrong.
	Who's your favorite musician?
	Ever?
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	Ever.
	Arthur Lee.
	Who's Arthur Lee?
	From the band Love that made the best album ever, Forever Changes, 1967.
	He was signed to Capitol Records.
	He got signed at the same time as the Doors, but he felt like he was way iller than the Doors.
	And he showed up at one of the Doors listening parties and acted a damn drunk fool.
	Did some Danny Brown shit.
	And he got blackballed by the music industry at that time.
	But he signed so much of a crazy ass deal that he bought this crazy ass castle at like Hollywood somewhere.
	So we have all like people be out in Hollywood and shit and just doing weird shit, doing like, you know, all the psychedelics and shit and just making like crazy ass songs.
	But his songs were so big.
	Like we're talking about like maybe like acoustic guitar as like the main lead.
	And next thing you know, you got a fucking full-blown orchestra.
	Like the nigga blew the budget on the album.
	When you listen to that album, you're like, this nigga went crazy.
	And we're talking about 19, the shit is in mono.
	Like it's crazy.
	So yeah, Forever Changes is my favorite album ever.
	And outside of that, probably nauseomatic.
	Really?
	And when you were younger, the first rapper that you listened to.
	The first rapper that I ever heard?
	Yeah.
	LL Cool J.
	I remember it like it's my, I remember like yesterday.
	No, it wasn't even that.
	It was so I was in kindergarten preschool around that time.
	And, you know, my mom worked at the time.
	So I was, she had babysitters and shit.
	My babysitter at the time was my cousin's uncle.
	You know, you know, there's so many baby daddies.
	Yeah.
	My cousin's uncle.
	He come picks me up from school.
	And I remember it's raining like crazy rain.
	And he like, Daniel, I don't got time to be fucking with you right now.
	That new LL Cool J album just came out and I want to listen to that shit now.
	Hurry up, man.
	So he grabbed me, running through the fucking rain.
	We get back to the house.
	You get what I'm saying?
	He runs into the basement.
	Obviously, I follow him because I'm like, I'm curious now.
	Like, what the why he treated, you know, you know, it's a normal day.
	You pick me up from school, take me home.
	But this nigga was real, like, bro, don't be bullshit.
	I don't know what I used to be doing when he walked me home from school, but he's like, not today.
	Not today.
	I swear to God, it's raining.
	I got the new LL Cool J albums.
	Bro, we got to get to the crib.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And he put that motherfucker out and he put it like the first three beats, like just hearing the drums.
	And I was like, oh, this is what I'm about to do with my life.
	I really decided that day, like, this is what I'm about to do.
	Does LL know that?
	No, I don't.
	You never got a chance to meet him?
	But yeah, that was literally the first.
	Like, just hearing the first of my radio, just hearing like the first, he didn't even start rapping yet.
	And it was, or I already made my decision.
	Like, oh, that's what I'm going to do.
	And then I just started rapping like all the time, rapping myself.
	I would rapping myself, rapping myself.
	And then it's still kindergarten.
	I'm like five years old or something like that.
	And then it was show and tell in kindergarten.
	I didn't know it was going to be show and tell because I don't pay attention in class, obviously.
	And the teachers like it's show and tell day, but everybody got toys and shit.
	They showing their shit.
	I don't got shit.
	I forgot.
	So I just went up in front of the class and I just started rapping.
	But when I finished rapping, the whole class jumped up and started.
	And then the teacher was like, oh my God, Daniel.
	Like, oh, that was so good.
	This is something you had already written.
	No, it's just a freestyle.
	You know, back in the day, this is like 80s.
	I had to do that back like late 80s.
	So I was, you know, that my name is D in the place to be.
	I rock the mic.
	So fresh as Lee, I'm rapping shit like that.
	And my teacher's like, oh, my God, that was so good.
	That was so good.
	So I was like, fuck.
	So then I kept doing it to myself.
	And the actual same uncle, one time, you know, but just randomly playing, I just started rapping in front of him.
	And then the look he gave me, he was like, damn.
	He was like, you didn't write that.
	I was like, I didn't write that.
	I was just rapping.
	I'm just saying some shit.
	But just that whole expression of him doing that let me know I was doing something good.
	So I just kept doing it, but I didn't never tell nobody.
	Like I would go to new schools and shit, and I'll be like the whatever kid in class and shit.
	And I wouldn't tell nobody that I know how to rap.
	But then one day it probably come up and I'll rap in front of everybody and I'll be the most popular kid and cool the next day.
	Really?
	Literally didn't, because you got to find another kid in school to battle me.
	So then we making these other shits and I'm battling everybody.
	I'm whooping everybody ass.
	Bro, there's one time in my life when I was before I started really selling drugs and I think it kind of influenced me to start selling drugs too.
	Cause I would walk home from school and every corner, like all the niggas that was selling dope and shit, they would all stop me and they'd give me like $100 just to rap for.
	Really?
	So I would like just coming.
	I would buy Jordan just from like.
	Rapping.
	I swear to God.
	Like I can walk home from my, when I was like in 10th grade, just me walking from Northwestern to fucking Montgomery and Limwood, that whole stretch, I would at least have to rap like four times.
	And I would get like fucking $250 or some crazy shit.
	Just walking home.
	Just walking home.
	And everybody would beg me to do it.
	So rap has given you social status at every point in your life.
	Yeah, definitely.
	That's what I said.
	Same thing in jail.
	Oh, that's crazy.
	So how come you waited until you were 30 to put out your first album?
	Nigga, you thought I wanted to wait?
	They wouldn't let me.
	Like my first shit was, so when I was about, I don't know, I guess, I mean, my 20s, that's when I really started going hard at it.
	Like my homie, he had a lot of money and shit.
	Like this is, he was doing like, you know, whatever.
	But he was willing to invest in my shit.
	So, you know, we made like a, I created a group called Reservoir Dogs.
	We made an album and then we would shop this album everywhere.
	And then he was like, you know, he do trips and go places everywhere.
	So then he came to New York one time and actually just went to the Universal Building and was passing out my demo.
	And he actually met, you remember the rapper that was signed to DMX, Bazaar Royale?
	No.
	Bazaar Royale got my demo and he was like, fuck that.
	I know who to take you to.
	And he took, he took, he took my guy to Rockefeller and it was an ANR at Rockefeller at the time.
	He was an 18-year-old ANR Travis coming.
	I just went yesterday.
	He was like, ew, he shouldn't even been doing it.
	Like, he was way too young to be doing this shit, but he knew shit.
	So he took my demo to him.
	And then him, he listened to it, but he was just like, you know, it was a group, but he was like, nah, the group is tight.
	That one, where's Danny at, though?
	Want him.
	So he would talk to me.
	Then next thing I know, I got a relationship with him and we would talk back and forth.
	And I would catch Greyhounds.
	I would catch the Greyhound bus out to New York.
	This is way before cell phones.
	I would have to get here, call him on a payphone.
	I got to go to Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Parks back in Utica.
	Now, you know what I'm saying?
	Like, I don't know what the fuck I'm doing.
	I'm at a Port Authority fucking using payphones and shit.
	Yeah.
	You know, and then he would take me to studios just around.
	But like I said, he still worked at Rockefeller.
	So what we were doing at the time, we were using, you know, motherfuckers would have these ill-ass budgets.
	Like, I would be recording on camera on time.
	Camera, I don't even know what the fuck is going on.
	We want the song in studios.
	He ain't showed up yet.
	Like, danny, knock out a song real quick.
	I'll go in the booth, knock that shit out real quick.
	Camera and them show up.
	They didn't even know we did nothing.
	Oh, wow.
	So that's how I made like a few of my first mixtapes.
	It was just us sneaking time on the lady's budget.
	Crazy.
	You know, so this is actually before I got locked up too.
	Yeah.
	So I was coming out here and I was, you know, making mixtapes.
	I would come out here for like maybe three, four days, go back home with a whole mixtape.
	So this was my studio.
	So whenever time I wanted to make a project, I got to come out to New York.
	You know, we had still time from artists and shit like that.
	Because they were showing up late.
	Yeah, or they don't show up.
	There was time being a student.
	And then you can order food on a budget.
	For chicken wings fry hard who was needing the beats and producing it, we'll just get at this time.
	You know, he worked at the label, so he getting beat tapes from everywhere.
	I got you.
	So we just, he just he coming through with a whole full shit of beat CDs that he's getting that they send into camera.
	But he like, what's up?
	And I've been going through them, find some raps that I got, put some songs together real quick.
	So it was like, it was real like rush, but it taught me how to be quick in the studio.
	And then how many years is this that you're doing this?
	I feel like we did that for like two, three years.
	And then you fire.
	All my first like Detroit State of Mind mixtapes, that was all recorded that way.
	And did Detroit fuck with you heavy first?
	They hated my guts.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	Why?
	Because I wore tight-ass pants and just was, I was like the weird black dude.
	Oh, did you always dress a little different?
	Always.
	And was there any issue with that?
	Always.
	What do you mean?
	I mean, it was always dangerous for me.
	Like people pressed you?
	Like, I couldn't go anywhere.
	I remember one time just being, like, I was wearing like the tightest fucking like Carolina blue skinny jeans.
	And I'm going to little season to get like a hot and ready or some shit.
	And just a hood ass nigga, he ain't got no shirt over that.
	He just walk in, look at me like, this nigga gay.
	That's Detroit shit.
	And I'm like, what's my supposed to do in this moment?
	You gotta, do we fight?
	Let me get out of here.
	So I just wouldn't go places.
	I wouldn't, you know.
	But when I, it would give me validation because then when I would go to New York or I go to LA, it never felt normal because everybody else dressed like that too.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It was just my city was slow to catch up.
	And now you go to Detroit.
	Everybody wears skinny jeans.
	They all fat now.
	They can't even fucking wear them.
	Niggas got booty dude.
	Interesting.
	Okay, so it starts.
	When did Detroit come around?
	To me?
	Yeah.
	I mean, I'm from Michigan.
	Michigan came around.
	I don't think Detroit ever did.
	You feel what I'm saying?
	And that's cool, too, because I can go there and be comfortable.
	Because the thing is about Detroit, it's like an attitude of, I don't give a fuck who you are.
	Like, it's not like a celebrity.
	Detroit versus everybody.
	No one's going to give you like...
	So when I go there and I can hang out anywhere I want to and you can know who I am and you're not going to acknowledge it.
	Right.
	I don't care.
	I don't have no one's coming up to want to take a picture.
	It's like, oh, Danny, fuck Danny.
	Really?
	It's safe to be like that.
	Yeah, you prefer it.
	Because it's other rappers that don't have that and everybody's running up on doing shit.
	And that's, I'd rather be famous in New York than Detroit.
	Because it's more dangerous to be famous in Detroit.
	So I think I'm older, too.
	So I think they kind of look at me like an OG kind of.
	Yeah.
	So it's like, just see me around and shit.
	Like, so the only people that really do fuck with me is like the little white kids and shit.
	Like, really?
	So like the niggas, the hood niggas, or even like going to, like, even like when I moved to Austin, Texas, like, like, going to restaurants, they're like, my meals.
	So like, I'll go into a restaurant, they'll just throw my whole album on.
	Wow.
	Going to a bar.
	They're like, Danny Brown.
	Oh, my God.
	Free drinks all night.
	That shit would never happen with Timmy in Detroit.
	Really?
	And I think I would rather have it that way.
	Yeah, security-wise.
	Yes, because if it's like that for you in Detroit, you one step from a nigga doing something.
	And you got family there and shit, too.
	I have a 21-year-old daughter.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Oh, shit.
	Where does she live?
	In Detroit.
	She's still back there.
	Yeah.
	I don't know.
	I guess that's something you really got to consider, especially if you're like hood famous.
	Because Detroit never been to...
	See, that was...
	It's not even Detroit.
	You see what happens in LA all the time?
	Like, people getting...
	But see, the thing is, I think about Detroit is that it's not an entertainment industry there.
	Yeah.
	You didn't make it anymore.
	I mean, well, now it's the internet.
	You can do whatever you want.
	But back then, you had to go to LA.
	You had to go to New York.
	No one, you're not about to get a record deal releasing your music around the city and hanging out.
	You know what I'm saying?
	So it was always about going to other places.
	And me going to these other places expanded my mind on what shit was going on.
	You know what I'm saying?
	So when I hang out living in New York for like two, three months or live in LA for two three months, then come back to Detroit seeing how niggas dress and shit like that.
	The women, everything.
	I'm like, y'all niggas know what's going on right now, bro.
	This fashion is bigger than the internet.
	This shit is bigger than this.
	So I already was thinking, you know, so I was always like an outsider kind of in that situation when people looked at me like, but it was a thing where people looked at me out of school because you would see me like dressing weird or something, but just because of my how long I've been doing it and everything, like, damn, that shit look fucked up.
	But I know two years later, I'm going to be wearing it too.
	So people kind of respected me because that's how it happened.
	Yeah.
	Like, you know?
	Yeah.
	So all like brands and stuff, like, I'll be wearing that shit years before.
	I don't even wear it no more.
	Then everybody started wearing it.
	Why fashion?
	Why do you think you were drawn to that early?
	My dad, my dad was just super into fashion.
	I had young parents who that's what made me so ill in high school.
	Like my dad, all that shit, he's like Versace.
	I wore a mink coat to school one time.
	Gator boots up to my knees.
	So this was in high school before your famous nothing.
	Yes.
	At 15 years old, stole my dad mink coat and gator boots and wore it to school.
	And didn't talk to anybody.
	You were a shy kid, right?
	And was shy.
	Whoa.
	Shut down the school.
	Definitely the way it does.
	Like, what the fuck is going on with you?
	One of my teachers passed me because I had a mobile watch.
	Can't make this up.
	Miss McFadden.
	Where's the confidence come from to do it?
	Usually at that age, this is, you know, kids are dealing with insecurity and trying to fit in.
	They want to be one of the group and you're shy, which usually is insecurity, but then you're so confident in this other stuff.
	That's fucked up.
	I never thought about that.
	This is like a therapy session.
	Yeah.
	How did that happen?
	I don't know.
	I think I was always kind of maybe.
	Okay.
	I think it came from the rap.
	If I started trying to rap at kindergarten, you already have a already wanted to make an image, a rapper image.
	So I'm always thinking, I'm being a rapper.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Me wearing a mink coat and gators to school was like, nigga, I'm a rapper.
	And you're qualified because of your skill.
	So like once you're cool, like Tom Brady could dress however he wants because he got seven rings.
	Yeah.
	It don't matter.
	Whatever he wears is what you should wear if you want to win seven rings.
	So once they know that you're nice at rap and you already battled everybody, beat everybody, you could come to school and the gators and the mink and I think I was always just trying to be a rapper before I was actually a rapper.
	But so much of the rapper persona is being outgoing the way you are now.
	Yeah.
	You're a rapper now in the way you act, entertainer, at least.
	Back then you weren't.
	What's that?
	And I was scared to tell people about it too.
	Yeah, you would only do it.
	That makes sense.
	You would wait for the opportunity.
	You go to a new school, wouldn't say shit to anybody.
	And then finally, when the opportunity came around, then you would flex on everybody.
	But maybe you enjoyed that.
	Maybe you enjoyed like being the outcast and then winning people over.
	Oh, he can't do anything.
	He dresses weird.
	He looks weird.
	And then boom.
	I think I just always just hold, I held myself up high in that sense.
	And I always would be embarrassed to be like, to try to, like, you should like me for me.
	I don't have to like show you conforms to you.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I'll have to show you some cool shit that I can do to make you like want to fuck with me.
	No, you should just like me because I wear a mink gator boots.
	You should like me for me.
	The guy who wears Versace in the mind.
	Yeah.
	Like I wear like Versace to school and shit.
	Like I was that kid.
	And what was extra crazy too, you know, working in Detroit, you had to be like 16.
	I had my first job at like 13.
	A lot of my application.
	Doing what?
	16?
	Dishwashing.
	Water World.
	Yeah.
	You were still at Water World.
	I used to work at buffets working $4.50 an hour, but no one had jobs at my age.
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	Yeah.
	So then you had money.
	So I had money.
	Yeah.
	And I would just get it in all ones.
	My paycheck probably be like $200 working 40 hours.
	But I would just get $100.
	I get a $100 bill and I would have a whole bunch of ones.
	And I'll be in school with this bankroll all the time.
	That's fine.
	So you would see.
	So I always got money on me.
	And it was just a weird thing, man.
	Okay, you're in Detroit.
	MM starts to explode.
	Did Detroit give it up for him or did that come from the outside first?
	It came from the outside first, definitely.
	Really?
	But I will say when Eminem came out, it gave me hope.
	Explain.
	Because I was like, damn, a nigga from Detroit made it.
	Yeah.
	I changed my whole rap style after that.
	Like the whole high-pitched, that's come from me here.
	I'm like, oh, this is about to be a style of Detroit.
	You know, every city has to have the sound.
	I'm like, he's about to be the spearhead of this shit.
	So let me convert to this sound.
	Like, I probably didn't rap like the way I rap now before Eminem came out.
	And I just studied Eminem, tried to rap.
	I would literally just try to rap like Eminem.
	And what are your thoughts on him?
	I feel bad about how they try to treat him now.
	Yeah, it fits.
	And I feel like this is the most purist of him being in hip-hop, to be honest, because he's just being, he's having fun.
	He don't have no pressure to like make hit songs or like to be like a big rapper.
	And I feel like before he had all that shit, now he's obviously just making music to have fun because he wants to do it.
	He got all the money in the world.
	Everybody's not, you know, they're trying to make him like a meme and like joke on him and shit.
	And that type of shit would make me not want to make music.
	Right.
	You know, and the fact that he's still making music and be like, fuck everybody.
	But he probably's not an internet guy like we are, you know?
	So you probably don't see none of that shit.
	But that shit, it kind of hurts my heart, man, because I'd be like, man, he don't deserve that shit kind of.
	Did you ever see him around or meet him?
	He did.
	I met him a few times.
	I played a real bad show one time.
	I opened for him.
	And I was like his opening act for like a little bit.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	I played.
	My biggest show I played was opening for him in Wembley at Wembley Stadium.
	Fuck.
	It's an amazing show, like 100,000 people.
	But one time I did too much fucking Adderall.
	And I just was sad and shit.
	I don't know, just was going through a lot of shit.
	And I had to open for him.
	And I played a show.
	It was actually, I remember, it was me, Run the Jews, Russ, and M.
	And I was just playing the show and just the crowd.
	It was like a, that's a fire show.
	It was like an open to white show.
	And they just wasn't fucking with me, really.
	Yeah.
	You know, type of shit.
	And I just wanted those songs.
	I was like, you know what?
	Fuck this shit.
	I don't want to do this shit.
	And I just threw the mic in the crowd, walked off stage.
	And yeah, I've been fired ever since.
	You can't explain to Eminem that you were doing too many drugs and that caused problems.
	He wouldn't have to.
	But that's the thing.
	He don't want that shit around him.
	Yeah.
	Oh, because he's trying to stay away from it.
	Yeah.
	So me just being even.
	I'm fire at him now, dog.
	You're sober.
	Even at the same time.
	Every time.
	Who's sober?
	No, I don't.
	I don't do pills anymore, though.
	I don't.
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	That's good.
	I don't do that.
	But I think I told you, me moving to Austin, Texas, I'm definitely.
	I mean, of course, I might do something socially hanging out with people.
	You know how I know you don't really, you haven't taken Austin as your home.
	You keep calling it Austin, Texas.
	That sounds like some shit you're visiting.
	I'm living in New York, New York, by the way.
	I guess you're right.
	I'm not meaning to do that.
	Yeah, moving to Austin, Texas.
	It just goes together.
	So cool.
	Y'all missed that Detroit water right there?
	Oh, yeah.
	All right, guys.
	We had to make some big moves real quick.
	We had to make some big fucking moves.
	We had to move some pieces right here.
	Danny, out for a moment.
	Okay.
	Akash out for a moment.
	This is just a quick moment.
	Very important that the people discussing this right now care deeply about it.
	And that is this fight coming up October 22nd.
	I'm not playing around.
	We need to have a very serious discussion.
	You got Charles Olivera and Islam, however the fuck you pronounce it.
	Makachev.
	It seems like I'm pronouncing it wrong, but I'm trying.
	Absolute beasts to the both of them.
	Incredible.
	Okay.
	Charles Olivera, if he beats Islam, I think has fought every single person in the top five or 10 in the last year.
	Some crazy stat.
	Crazy stack.
	He's going up against a religion like that.
	He's going up against an entire religion out there.
	Jeez, man.
	It is that crazy.
	So Charlie Olives, my boy, it is really tough, but the card is crazy.
	I think Charles Olivera can do it.
	I think it's going to be a tough fight.
	I think that Islam will mitigate a lot of the stuff that a lot of the jiu-jitsu that Charles uses, but I still think on the feet, Charles is exceptional.
	I think he's better.
	I think they'll neutralize each other on the ground, but I think on their feet, Charles will be the first one.
	Islam is the underdog on the money line.
	It's really close.
	Yeah, but they have Olivera as the favorite.
	And now Oliver gets to win back the belt.
	They can do it because they stripped him because he didn't make weight.
	Yeah.
	So, but the whole card is fucking great.
	Okay.
	So they also got Aljermain Sterling, Long Island Zone against TJ Dillashaw.
	Absolutely.
	It's the two of them.
	Kome, crazy.
	Okay.
	Sterling is the champ.
	So Dillashaw is going to go after that belt.
	We'll see what happens.
	Then our boy Sean O'Malley and Peter Young.
	This is an incredible fight.
	Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see Sean in this.
	This is his biggest test and arguably the second best fighter in the division.
	Aljermain Sterling beat him, but Al Jermaine will probably admit it was an incredibly close fight.
	So, and the way that Aljermain beat him is not by striking.
	Peter's a great striker.
	He's a great fucking boxer, but amazing with distance.
	But Al Jamain beat him with wrestling and jiu-jitsu.
	He fucking took him down.
	He did what he did.
	Sean O'Malley, we've never seen him have to use wrestling or jiu-jitsu.
	So they're going to be striking.
	Now, Sean has the reach.
	Yeah.
	And he's a great striker.
	He's a fantastic striker.
	Amazing.
	So it's going to be a, I get excited for those fights because there's two technicians going at it.
	So we'll see what happens.
	I'm pulling for Sean on that one, though.
	Like, I like Sean so much.
	Yeah, of course.
	I was like, fuck.
	No, I'm what.
	And also, if he does win, it's very easy to see Sterling O'Malley if O'Malley also.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Right.
	So this is going to be cool seeing their fight back to back.
	You're going to see Sean in his best and then Al Jermaine in his best.
	How confident are you that he's going to win?
	You got to put some money on that?
	Ooh.
	What you going to put up, my boy?
	$150.
	There we go.
	I'm going to be crazy.
	I got to say one more fight.
	They got Balal Muhammad and Sean Brady are both fighting.
	I've spoken to both of them on Instagram.
	So it's very hard for me to pick.
	I know.
	That's hard.
	It's very difficult.
	Two fighters are both fans of your stand-up.
	It's really hard.
	Like, I would go like, well, which one of you posted to your story when I released it?
	But both of them did.
	So it's very difficult for me to choose in this situation.
	So may there's got to be a different criteria.
	What did they post?
	Fuck, that's true.
	I got to look deeply at the post to see how much support they have for me.
	One of them posted it like minute 50.
	That's different than posting just a title screen.
	Good point.
	You know what I mean?
	So I would check that.
	I would check that.
	Okay, I'm going to look into that and I'm going to take that very seriously.
	Fellas, best of luck.
	Both of you come out unharmed and ready to fight again.
	And I'm telling you this right now.
	I care so much about both of you.
	I'm putting money on both of you.
	But then you're definitely going to lose.
	Don't worry about that.
	You're definitely going to win.
	I'm definitely going to win.
	It's a guaranteed win and a guaranteed loss.
	I got to be an optimist.
	Did I tell you I actually did this before?
	Mark, you sure you want to share it?
	I really do.
	Okay, what happened?
	It was the last Izzy fight.
	Okay.
	And I accidentally put money on like Izzy finishing in the second round and then Izzy finishing in the fourth round or some shit like that.
	Like, I didn't understand what I was doing.
	Before, I accidentally put money on like, oh, because I thought it was going to be like both.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Like it was going to be like yes and, but instead it was either or.
	And so I was like, oh, he's going to win by knockout or, you know, a chokehold or whatever.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And then I lost.
	And I won.
	No, you lost.
	Don't make my mistake.
	Even sharing it was another loss.
	I think he's going to knock him out in the second and the fourth.
	I liked that.
	I was so excited.
	I didn't know what I was doing.
	Don't be like me.
	Don't be like him.
	But if you are going to bet, bet with betonline.ag.
	You know, bet online held us fucking down, holding a special down.
	And what they're going to do is use the promo code Flagrant.
	They're going to match 50% of your initial deposit bonus up to $1,000.
	What the fuck does that mean?
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	So for $1,500, gamble with that extra money and don't do what Mark did.
	Now, let's bring back our co-host and guest.
	Arkash, Daddy.
	Austin, Texas made my career.
	If it wasn't for Austin, Texas, I wouldn't be the rapper that I am.
	Why?
	South by Southwest.
	It's where I pretty much made my whole name at, Raphael Sadiq.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	He had to cancel and couldn't make it.
	And at the time, I'm like the hottest shit at South by Southwest that's not on Fader Ford.
	So they hit me up and I bodied it.
	Like literally destroyed.
	I'm talking about I've seen my fucking followers, all that shit.
	What did you do different?
	What was yo?
	What is locking in in a rap show?
	I know we obviously know what it is for stand-up.
	What is locking in and being like, I body that shit as a rapper?
	You've seen everybody had a good time.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, but how are you engaging them?
	Like, I guess what I'm saying.
	I don't, at this time, I didn't engage shit.
	Because my whole shit was that I knew I kind of had like a funny thing about me.
	So when I go on stage, I would never talk.
	I just do the songs, get the fuck on.
	I don't talk between songs.
	I do none of that shit.
	Now I do it because people know me for it.
	You know what I'm saying?
	But at that time, I was like, you want to interview Danny?
	You're going to get that.
	But rap, Danny, it's serious.
	No boom.
	I go up there, I rap.
	I'm not doing no jokes.
	I'm not doing none of that shit.
	I'm not showing y'all my personality.
	I'm doing these songs.
	I'm getting the fuck on.
	Pay me for the personality on the second end.
	So yeah, so I did Fader Forbes, body the show.
	And then, so obviously, you know, then my career started to do good, blah, blah, blah.
	So the next year, coming back to South by Southwest, Fader Ford, I'm the headline of that.
	I'm going to cover the magazine, all that shit.
	But this is the crazy part about this story.
	At the time, Two Chains is the hottest nigga in the world.
	They telling Two Chains he got to play before me.
	And Two Chains is looking at me like, oh, you really about to do this?
	But you know, me, I'm in my own, I'm feeling myself.
	I'm like, nigga, what the fuck is you talking about?
	It is what it is.
	That's how Fader works, man.
	It's hipster shit.
	This ain't the average rap shit.
	This ain't BET awards, my nigga.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	You get what I'm saying?
	So, yeah, nigga.
	He literally were begging me, like, bro, please don't do this.
	But then it was like one homegirl that was at Fader Ford.
	He's like, no, let that Detroit nigga do his thing, man.
	Fuck what they talking about.
	He on the cover.
	This is what we've been doing.
	This is how we're going to do it, man.
	So two chains played before me.
	Bodied it.
	And I had to go on after this.
	Nigga hit me in the head with a lemon.
	Really?
	No.
	Yeah.
	And I'm so drunk on stage, I thought I blocked it.
	I saw the lemon coming.
	I swiped at it.
	And I was like, yeah, y'all seen that?
	I hit the women.
	Trying to be cool in front of the crowd.
	But then we watched the playback.
	The nigga beamed me, bro.
	Oh, no.
	You got kick-cutty, bro.
	It was Jason that did it, bro.
	Your arts rival.
	My whole shit was, who got a lemon not face?
	That is crazy.
	Go to the grocery store and get a lemon.
	Like, I'm going to figure it out.
	It's two chains, bro.
	It's no bar there.
	It's not like you can.
	I had a lemon.
	He was waiting for somebody that he didn't like, and you were the last act, and he liked everybody.
	So he's like, fuck it, I got him something with a good art.
	That's the funny part.
	Two chains may be like sitting like over there.
	He looking at me.
	Satisfied.
	And we both, we both lock eyes.
	And this is the nigga said, stupid.
	Damn, that gotta hurt.
	That hurt.
	I know that.
	Every time I didn't realize, what was going on?
	I'm feeling myself, bro.
	I swear to God, I was feeling myself at that time.
	So I'm like, I'm that nigga.
	I'm fracking, nigga.
	This ain't his world.
	Yeah.
	This ain't.
	But it was.
	Oh.
	White people love whatever niggas love, man.
	I thought y'all had a mind.
	I thought y'all had a brain for yourself.
	It's one of those things.
	So now podcasting.
	You think that you will crack the code?
	Or destroy my life.
	But now you're good.
	You're sober.
	You got a girl.
	You're going to get married.
	You living in Austin, Texas?
	I mean, I really feel like I got a second chance with this.
	Yeah.
	To be honest.
	And so I am taking it serious, you know?
	Like, I can honestly say I made a lot of mistakes in my rap career.
	I think what happened was it took me so long to get on when I was like making it at 30.
	So I was like bitter.
	So I was never happy about shit or I could never like take it in and like accept it for what it was.
	And I always thought it was fake kind of be like, this shit going to end in a day anyway.
	Fuck these motherfuckers.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	So I was bitters.
	Yeah.
	So that's the Patrice thing.
	That's probably why you love Patrice part of it.
	Yeah.
	Habitual bridge burner.
	Yeah.
	So I think I did.
	And which I wish, I do really feel bad about that.
	I wish I really took more, took it a little more serious than what I did.
	But I think that's really what it was.
	And I would feel too old.
	Like you hanging around 20-year-olds.
	Yeah.
	Everybody like, you the old guy in the room.
	And it's like, so it was, yeah.
	But I wish I would have taken it a little more serious.
	I will say that.
	I mean, not saying my actual music, I took that shit serious to the bone.
	Yeah, you're talking about putting out an album, but I'm just saying the actual work part, like doing interviews.
	And I was a bad guy.
	I was a bad guy.
	Wait, wait, what do you mean?
	Like, just, I don't think I was a nice person.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah.
	You were just, you were angry?
	You were just...
	Behind the scenes, like, with the camera cut on, I'll be nice to you right now, but outside of it, you'd be like, nigga, I fucked down you.
	Really?
	Yeah.
	So I think it was a lot of people that was like, man, fuck that nigga.
	Really?
	But I was going, at the time, I had a huge lean addiction.
	I'm addicted to opiate.
	So when I'm not at the crib and I'm not drinking lean fucking all day, I'm sick.
	That's where I go.
	So if I'm in New York and I got to do fucking interviews all fucking weekend and I can't find lean, I'm fucking sick.
	I mean, it's not nothing to like play like an excuse.
	I'm not using it as an excuse.
	It's fucked up for me to be like that.
	Yeah.
	So I would always just be edgy and just, I was mean to people, man.
	I was a real bad guy.
	What's lean like?
	It's amazing.
	Like, give me lean.
	Explain lean.
	Oh, man.
	Hit that.
	Hit that.
	I mean, it just tastes so good.
	Yeah.
	Can you imagine, like, I mean, then dark candy, like the...
	It just tastes so good.
	You can just eat candy.
	Once you get addicted to the taste, it like engulfs your life almost.
	Like, you can just be anywhere.
	Next thing you know, you just taste it in your mouth like, fuck.
	Wait, really?
	I'm just lean.
	Like, craving.
	You know how you get cravings for food?
	But you got lean cravings all the time if you don't have it.
	And what is the high?
	Oh, it's amazing, man.
	You just, you love life, man.
	You listen to music and go to sleep.
	It's just opiate, man.
	Just nod out, you know?
	Heroin.
	Just nodding out.
	I remember one time I listened to a Chief Keith song 2,700 times straight.
	2,700?
	That's what I'm playing count said.
	That's the actual number.
	I swear to God, I can't make this up.
	It was 27-something.
	But the actual season.
	That's when I knew like, this is crazy.
	What song was it, bro?
	Young Rambo.
	You better know that shit word for word.
	But I was nodding out the whole time.
	No, it's in there, though.
	And I wake up and click it again.
	And go back to sleep on it.
	How many minutes are in a day?
	It's only like two minutes.
	No, it's like things like two days.
	Yeah, because it wasn't.
	I remember buying, I had a pine lean.
	I remember getting it.
	I pulled up, put on TK Fab on my headphones.
	And I remember just once I finally got out, it was like pizza boxes everywhere, KFC boxes.
	Just the whole room was in shambles.
	And then my lean was gone.
	And it was like, then I was finally like snapped out of it.
	And I like took a shower and shit.
	And I was like, what the fuck just happened?
	I'm like, it's Sunday?
	Whoa.
	That shit was Thursday night.
	Wow.
	That's it.
	And I was like, oh, this is bad.
	Yeah.
	When do you start reflecting on you having an addictive personality and being self-destructive with that?
	Oh, I've always known that.
	So you just, you've known it and you're like, I'm going to submit to this sometimes.
	I mean, like I said, the best thing for me is just not to have it a part of my life.
	You know, me being in Detroit, bro, would be bad.
	Fall back.
	I don't want COVID.
	It was all bad.
	Have you tried every drug?
	Fuck no.
	Nigga, I don't do crack.
	I never did crack.
	I never did meth.
	I never did heroin.
	Everything else is negotiable.
	You did LSD?
	What?
	I saw my whole world crumble off fucking acid.
	Man, what do you mean?
	I did acid one time.
	And you know how you see like Roman empires or whatever.
	It's like castles and shit, like a whole shit.
	And everything just like Game of Thrones type shit.
	And it was like I was like a king in a castle or some shit, but the whole shit just started crumbling, like destroying.
	And then I remember like, you know, how you have to, you know, that big ass ball in front of Target?
	I had one of those in the castle.
	And I remember that's the last thing I saw.
	It's like smoke.
	Everything is destroyed.
	And that seemed that one big ball pillar just bouncing.
	Like boom, boom.
	Then it projected me out.
	And then I was able to see a whole overview of what the city was.
	And everything was fucking burning and all fucked up.
	It was like a dragon.
	That made me decide to move to Austin, Texas, because it gave me my, because I always thought to myself, what did that mean?
	Does that mean it's over for me in Detroit?
	It's over for me here.
	Like, I need to get the fuck out of here, bro.
	Or you get what I'm saying?
	I swear to God, that was one of like the biggest.
	So acid trip was like, yeah, I got to get the fuck out of here, man.
	It's over for me here.
	Like, it's destroyed.
	Everything is, you know?
	Acid seems like it can either really change your life for the better and make you realize things or completely ruin everything for your future.
	Like some people have a bad trip and then they're just fucked forever.
	I hear.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's just a little crazy.
	And then some people are like, nah, it changed my whole life.
	I had a big revelation because I acid.
	I think it's all about where you're at mentally when you take it and what you're doing it for.
Acid Trip Destruction 00:04:08
	It's fun therapy.
	What you doing it for?
	Yeah.
	You know, because some people do it to have fun, but some people are doing it for actually like, you know, therapy type reason, like trying to figure some shit out.
	So it's all about what you're doing it for, kind of, you know?
	Like me, when I was doing the, um, like I just, like I said, I did a fucking quarter pound of mushrooms in like a month.
	And what was my purpose of doing that?
	It just was, I don't know.
	I just was trying to figure out where my life was at that time.
	And you said you saw death.
	Yeah, I saw my actual grave.
	And it made me not scared of death anymore.
	But yeah, you said that earlier.
	Why, why are you not scared of death anymore?
	Because it taught me that that's the graduation of life.
	When it's time for you to be picked for that shit to happen, it was, you did what you had to do on this situation.
	But that don't mean it ends, though.
	Something about that said it didn't, like, it made me feel like it didn't end.
	Why?
	Like, I don't know.
	Because that's what you fear about death is the permanence of it.
	I think I was just scared of death because so many people around me was just dying so young.
	Like, you know, in a teenage year, I lost so many friends or like, you know, a lot of people, I've just seen a lot of people die young, bro.
	And so you feel like they didn't accomplish what they needed to accomplish, but then that showed you they've accomplished everything and it's just graduation time.
	So it's like, man, when it's time for they call you, you did what you had to do.
	So you'd be cool if you died today.
	I think I did what I had to do.
	Wow.
	And where do you think you go after you die?
	You come back.
	What do you mean, dog?
	End of shit.
	Well, how do you come back?
	Man, you just soul.
	You know, your soul never dies.
	You just physical form dies.
	Dummy.
	You're just going to get transformed into another physical.
	Oh, no, no.
	So like full reincarnation.
	I mean, I wouldn't say reincarnation.
	Like, you're going to come back as a frog.
	Yeah, dummy.
	Nah, you can't.
	I feel that's like that's death.
	I think that's the hell when they talk about like hell on earth and shit.
	You're like a mosquito?
	Yeah, when you get reincarnated as a mosquito.
	You're a lantern fly as some white shit crushed.
	The whole religion is hell.
	Yeah, bro.
	What does that mean?
	You know, other religions have hell also, you know?
	Yeah, yeah, but like in Danny Brown's world, your religion is hell.
	Reincarnation is hell.
	No.
	He said if you come back as a religion, you wouldn't look right or a spotted lantern feel five.
	That's hell.
	That happens in your religion.
	That's hell.
	Yeah, but hell also happens in other religions.
	That would be your punishment.
	I look at it as that would be your punishment for not doing what you're supposed to do on this physical planet.
	So if you come back as a frog or something fucked up, he's showing you like, nigga, this shit ain't cool.
	But if you live a good life, you come back as another person.
	Yeah.
	Do you think that in a better form of yourself?
	Upgrades, like a software update.
	Oh, that's crazy.
	So if you were to die today, I don't even know.
	He's so heinous.
	If you were to die today, with all the drugs he had to do just to be Hindus.
	It's crazy.
	What are you coming back as if you were to die today?
	Bitch.
	A bad bitch, though?
	Yeah, I'm going to be a bad bitch.
	My boyfriend going to be a cartel member.
	My dissolved body's an asset.
	Yo, that's fire.
	That's fire, bro.
	But I'm going to keep them be straight.
	I'm going to be the one that level them out.
	Yeah.
	And make them not be a full psycho that kill villagers and shit.
	You can fix them.
	Yeah.
	I'm going to be the one that fixed them.
	So you're basically going to come back as your girl.
	Yeah.
	That's hell, bro.
	I got to deal with you.
	God ain't going to let me come back as a nigga, man.
	I abuse my privileges.
	You want pussy so bad here.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I really feel like he ain't going to let me come back as a nigga, man.
	He's going to be like, dog, this nigga got to feel it.
	He got to know what the other side feels like.
	Yeah.
	He's going to start a system of stuff.
	Yeah, sure.
	Let me see what this shit is all about.
	I'm coming back as a puppet.
	So then I have more empathy.
	Yeah.
	There you go.
	So what type of dudes would you fuck?
	I told you.
	No, but like he's just saying power.
	He's going to be a husband.
	You are powerful ass dudes, though.
	Yeah, it got to be.
	I want a murderer.
Lean Addiction Confessions 00:02:50
	That's good.
	I want a nigga that I know going to kill a nigga.
	Yeah, you're going to kill that pussy.
	I want to feel secure.
	This nigga got guns everywhere.
	I'm one of them type of bitches, man.
	Like, this nigga got guns.
	He dangerous.
	He's dangerous.
	Oh, my God.
	Because swear, I can't make this up.
	I believe you.
	No, I don't think you're making it up.
	I don't think any of us thought you were making this up to look cool.
	I can't date that dude.
	He's a square.
	Ain't no square niggas in my life.
	That shit too boring being with a regular nigga.
	This nigga come do that.
	Come back watching sports and shit.
	Yeah, I'm that guy.
	I'm very boring.
	Yeah.
	But me too, though.
	I don't know.
	No.
	I don't buy that you're boring.
	It comes in increments.
	I literally sit around and play video games all day.
	When you're not addicted to drugs.
	Yeah.
	I'm not addicted to drugs.
	I do drugs.
	That's a bar, bro.
	That is a bar.
	When I'm at home, I'm not doing my girls.
	You said you were addicted to lean is what I'm referring to.
	Oh, that was years ago, though.
	It's too expensive.
	In this economy?
	Lean in this economy.
	It's crazy.
	It's a recession.
	Inflation.
	Lean is the most expensive duck to do.
	Anybody that's doing lean, they're just doing it as a stunt.
	It's not even worth the money you're paying for it.
	And the lean that I did, it got discontinued because Justin Bieber asked.
	Oh, really?
	What happened?
	Activists.
	Well, this is a story.
	I don't know if this is real, but they're saying.
	It's a great way to start a story.
	But they're saying Justin Bieber overdosed on lean.
	Activist damn near died type shit.
	Well, activist is the name of the lean.
	That's the name of the brand.
	It's still a drug coming.
	They make other shit that just don't make lean no more.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And it was the best tasting shit ever.
	Really?
	I used to just.
	And, you know, the thing about lean is you got to drink a lot of soda.
	Like, I'd be at the grocery marketing or the rarest, drinking a two liter a day.
	That shit.
	So what happened was activists ain't want that on their name.
	That's what the lean gut is?
	Yeah.
	It's not the lean.
	Oh, my stomach was so big.
	Oh, and it makes you constipated.
	Oh, that's good.
	So it's mad turds.
	I think it's just mad turds sitting in your stomach.
	Mad turds.
	Mad turds sitting in your stomach, man.
	So yeah, I think they say you overdose some activists and they didn't want that blood on their name.
	So now if you buy lean, now that lean literally tastes like candy.
	You didn't taste no medicine after taste.
	So if you drink lean, now it has a medicine after it tastes good.
	But now these kids say that's what they want.
	How much is like a bottle of lean now?
	Oh, I think it's $500 a line.
	What's a line mean?
	An ounce.
Telemundo Show Chemistry 00:01:11
	So like.
	Damn.
	You know.
	So to buy a pint, I think it's 16 ounces in a pint.
	So it's $8,000 for a pint of lean.
	Damn.
	Like, I've drunk.
	I've drunk all the other leans, the Morton Grove, the fucking, whatever.
	But you like the activists.
	That's your tip.
	I was really addicted to activists.
	Would you say that's like the white women of lean?
	Nigga, that's the mama seeker.
	That's the bad bitch from Telemundo.
	These niggas drinking a white bitch now.
	That was the Telemundo.
	Guys, this is Danny Brown.
	Danny, where can they get your podcast?
	YMH, YouTube, Danny Brown Show, XX.
	I mean, X Danny, X Brown, X, all my social medias or whatever.
	You can find me at the Hilarious Show.
	There's a great episode.
	It's you and David Lucas.
	Shout out to David Lucas.
	David Lucas.
	Hilarious comedian.
	I'm having home once a month at least.
	I mean, you guys got great chemistry, man.
	Make sure you check out Danny Brown's show.
	Absolutely hilarious.
	YMH Studios, YouTube.
	And, yo, thank you so much for taking the time.
	Thank you guys for having me.
	I really appreciate you, my man.

Chapters

00:00:00 OnlyFans Cheating Scandal
00:04:23 Jail Life and Laundry Hacks
00:19:59 Revenge Sex and 97s
00:34:59 Fat White Bitches and Comedy Clubs
00:40:11 LeBron Impression Rant
00:55:09 Opening for Eminem
00:57:59 Two Chains Tour Struggles
01:13:28 Acid Trip Destruction
01:17:37 Lean Addiction Confessions
01:20:27 Telemundo Show Chemistry