It's Danny Brown week over at Complex. This means the Detroit rapper shares a whole lot of Detroit stories and a little bit of breakfast weed.
Danny Brown, or "Daniel" as he introduces himself in the video below, grew up in the Dexter-Linwood neighborhood on Detroit's west side and moved to the east side in elementary school. "The east side a whole other world, man! It played a lot a part of how my personality is, you know. They encouraged me to rap," he says.
If you've never been anywhere else, then this is all there is to you, and you'd be happy with this. You'd just live everyday and just die one day, you know. But when you go to other cities you see there's other shit to do. Welcome to Detroit, man. It ain't much but it's mine.
Prior to me going to jail… I had realized how great J Dilla was and just getting, understanding the importance of what my city had brought to the table, you know? Cuz me, growing up, man, hearing fucking 'Beats, Rhymes and Life'… I did near no J Dilla. I didn't know. You know what I'm saying? But now it's like 'That was Detroit shit!' You know what I'm saying? At the end of the day, like, hearing fucking Bust-A-Rhymes albums and hearing certain songs -- that was Detroit shit! But I didn't know because it was marketed to me as New York shit…. Detroit, you could say we never had a sound. But that's our sound in some sense, as far as rap goes."
See Danny Brown's Detroit in the video below, and in an impressively sleek looking digital magazine article here.
