Danny Brown

Bio

Danny Brown’s ability to trojan-horse in bars about street-level Detroit and his surreal day to day life within it has produced his longevity and etched his legacy. When he released his breakout album XXX in 2011, he was spearheading a movement of avant-garde internet hip-hop that we still live in the shadow of today. Since then, Brown has whipped ravers into frenzies across European festival circuits and donned XXL’s coveted Freshman cover. He’s bridged old and new-school rap royalty (collabs from Earl Sweatshirt to Q-Tip) and linked with the most grailed underground electronic record labels. And most remarkably, he has done all this while remaining inexplicably himself; never veering too far one way or another, or bothering to explain how he maintains balance. On his most recent album, Quaranta, he finally begins to peel back the curtain, unveiling the inner monologues of an artist who’s mystified fans for over a decade. Brown’s sixth studio album, written during the pandemic lockdowns of 2021, is autobiographical and personal in a way seldom heard from an MC before. Brown is currently based in Austin, Texas, where he records his popular podcast, The Danny Brown Show.