Joe Rogan Experience #1902 - Danny Brown
Episode Stats
Length
2 hours and 10 minutes
Words per Minute
185.42659
Hate Speech Sentences
110
Summary
On this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the comedian and actor joins Jemele to discuss his new album "The Patrice O'Neal Theory" and how he thinks about his relationship with his ex-fiancee. He also talks about his love life and why he doesn't care if his ex likes him or not. And he talks about how he feels about the current state of the music industry and why it's important to have a good relationship with your significant other. He also explains why he thinks it's a good idea to have sex with your ex and why you should get a threesome with your partner. And finally, he gives his thoughts on the new music he's been listening to and why they should be doing it more often. Enjoy the episode and tweet me if you liked it! with any thoughts, opinions, or thoughts on any of the topics covered in this episode. Timestamps: 0:00:00 - My relationship with my ex 6:30 - How I don t care if my ex likes me or not 8:00 - How much money I should get 9:15 - Why I don't care about my relationship 11:20 - Why you should fuck someone else 12:30 13:40 - How to be honest with your girlfriend 16:00- How I feel about my ex? 17: How much I love my girl 18:15: Should I fuck my ex-wife 19: How do you fuck your ex-boyfriend? 21: How I m in love with my girlfriend? 22: How long have I been with my girl? 27: How often do you have a period ? 28:15 29:30 Do you want to fuck my girl s period? 31:20 32:30 Is she like that? 33:30 Should I have a new pussy? 35:00 Do you have periods? 36:40 37:30 Can I have another bitch? 39:40 Do you like it or don t I love you more? 40:30 I m gonna fuck her? 45:00 Can I give her more than one bitch ? 47:00 Is she have a dick? 44:00 I m getting this dickbagging this dickfucking this shit? 48:00
Transcript
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Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day!
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But then you thinking like that, that's like...
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That's the curse of being successful though, right?
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And the music industry is one of those type of situations where you can be as creative as you want to be, but does that make you money?
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So you have this whole fucking angel and double on your shoulder.
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Like, make a hit song or be creative as you want to be.
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Do what you want to do or do what you think is going to sell.
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In my whole entire career, I just did what I wanted to do.
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But at this point, after 10 years, I sit back sometime and I think about, like, damn, did I make a mistake?
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Because, you know, there's still a lot of people in my family that struggle.
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But if I just didn't care about being Danny Brown and being so cool and trying to make the most experimental music I could possibly make, fucking just don't give a fuck.
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That's the whole thing of what makes you a great artist.
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I don't know if I can do both because it's such a drastic change from what I love as underground music and what is commercially considered to be pop music.
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Would he ever been a fucking, like, you know what I'm saying?
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Even if he couldn't get on a television show, even if nothing ever happened for him like that, we would have all had him on podcasts.
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Because even with my rap career and just how I look at making music, I look at him as a super inspiration.
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My last album, which was called You Know What I'm Saying, which was actually from Time and Christina, because they had this bit.
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But we had this bit where they had niggas, and you know niggas be like, you know what I'm saying?
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Even me, I say you know what I'm saying like a lot, like a motherfucker.
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But before that, the name of the album was the Patrice O'Neill Theory.
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Because Patrice O'Neill, he had this theory where he'd talk about like men has periods.
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So, every time you're mad at your girl, like, uh, she, like, all on you, and she, like, uh, you're like, uh, you're like, uh, my woman is beautiful.
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Like, but you're like, bitch, you just want another taste of something.
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Like it's to the point where if you've been so faithful for so long, you're like, I'll fuck a homeless bitch on the corner.
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But if I did, it's going to make me love you so much more.
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Like I won't have this attitude with you, this whole attitude I got with you.
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But I would say, listen, I'm going to say this because I love my girl at home.
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It's like, come on, this motherfucker's been burnt out.
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This dick's been getting speedbagged for the last 10 years.
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When did you decide to do this podcast that you're doing with your mom's house?
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Because it goes back into me just being a rapper, and just me being on some rap shit, and I was on tour.
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I was on tour for a long part of time, and being on tour, you get bored, and I'm a gamer, so I buy a lot of video games, and guess what?
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So I'm playing that and you were the fucking announcer on it.
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So I'm playing that and you're the announcer on the album tour.
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And then I guess, I don't know, some type of way I was watching UFC of some shit.
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And then I seen you on there and it was like, oh, this the nigga from the video game!
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So I'm like, this the nigga from the video game!
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So then I started listening to Joe Rogan shit, and then from seeing Joe Rogan shit, I seen Uncle Joey on there.
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Then I seen Uncle Joey on there, and I seen that, and I just started going through the fucking, um, the rabbit hole of y'all shit.
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Like, even the shit of fucking, uh, fucking Red Band dumbass, always talking about fucking Olive Garden and shit like that, like...
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I will credit you to fucking up my fucking music career in some sense.
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Because it got to the point where all I did was...
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I was one of those people where I would be like, man, people don't really listen to music.
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They just listen to music in their cars or when they got function.
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I'm the type of person that listens to music 24 seconds a day.
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But then I started getting into podcasting and listening to your shit and doing that and all that.
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I'm just being into podcasting and listening to y'all shit.
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You know, fucking Uncle Joey and all that shit.
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And then I got into why I made shit, listening to they shit.
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But when time hit me up, he didn't know how much of a fanboy I was or the shit.
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So when I came through, I was hitting them with all this shit, you know, all the fucking Wyoming shit, like, you know, straight real mommy shit.
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The jeans, the whole, the fan base of the whole shit fucked with me.
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So, Tom would always hit me up and talk about it.
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Because me and Tom would FaceTime and talk to each other.
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Ain't had nothing to do with no business or nothing else.
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And Tom would be like, man, you should do a podcast.
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I'm telling you, you'll be good at doing podcasts.
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But my whole shit was with him and I was like, man, no...
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Being good at podcasts is good, but the actual production of it, which makes podcasts good.
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Because I can set up a fucking camera and a fucking microphone in my bedroom and start talking shit in front of the camera, but is that going to be good?
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It's nice to have great production, and the way they do it at your mom's house is awesome.
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I was like, I'm not going to do it unless it's like that.
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Because you're a fan of podcasts for so long, I think you were probably talking back in your head.
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It can be, it can be fucking, but see, this is the double-edged sword with that with me.
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Because what I loved about podcasting was like, I was almost like a fly on the wall against seeing like friends just hanging out drinking and talking shit.
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And now when you watch podcasting, it's so fucking overproduced.
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I heard that these niggas is writing scripts now.
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I swear I heard some shit like that where they said these niggas got scripts and they looking at them on a Trello prompter and they sitting there doing podcasts.
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Podcasts are supposed to be like you just a fly on the wall sitting there in a room with a couple friends and you hearing them talking shit and you like that's why we love fucking Rogan so much.
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In the beginning stages of now this is some real shit.
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But in the beginning stages of the shit like no we're a fly on the wall but The point of that that has turned to what media is in real life now.
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It makes so much sense when you got fucking, we went through reality TV so much.
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Now, motherfuckers that play video games watch other motherfuckers that play video games for fun.
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Danny, I had a bit a long time ago about a cameraman from a reality TV show getting his own reality TV show.
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So the reality TV show was about a cameraman following around a cameraman on a reality TV show.
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And then I go, but then people are going to go, well, what about the cameraman behind the cameraman?
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And then they're going to do a cameraman show on that.
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I would love to see, me and my fucked up brain, I would love to see that show, but it had to be like the niggas that shoot porn, though.
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Because I feel like a cameraman is such a vast.
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Nigga, you shooting for the NBA or you shooting for the motherfucking anal projections?
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Yeah, you could be a professional and work for both.
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At the end of the day, what I will say that's good about the cameraman shit is that, just like everything else with DJing, everything that comes with the internet, everything, or even like production equipment, all this shit has become so...
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Back in the day, I couldn't go on YouTube and find an instruction manual on how to use an MPC. You know, Jamie's an audio engineer, like a real audio engineer.
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And then the year I graduated, YouTube got invented.
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How much of what you learned in school is still valid?
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It's hard to say, because there's even some of the computer programs, they don't edit for you, but they handle a lot of the shit that was difficult.
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You want to hear the fucked up part that I think about is that it's better in this sense, because you get a lot of different point of views.
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If I'm a nigga that I'm trying to learn some shit on YouTube, and it's a topic that has a lot of different people that's talking about it, I'm taking the best parts of or whatever identifies on me.
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I'm like, oh, I'm figuring that shit out and do that like that instead of just learning from one person.
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Shouts out to all my boys at fucking Ogre Muay Thai.
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Shouts out to my boy Spencer, my boy Dave, all my motherfuckers.
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Yeah, but it's one of those things, you know, yeah, but I didn't know that part, though, because I was doing privates, and that was fun, you know, learning shit.
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And then this nigga was like, oh, you know what it is?
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So I was just like, you know, I was wearing my normal, like, regular shorts.
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So I bought the shiniest Muay Thai shorts I could find.
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And then he show up with the whole Jordan fit on.
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So I felt like that's what Muay Thai was looking at me like at that point.
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This is my first time buying some Muay Thai shit.
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Yeah, so one of the teachers, she was like, you know, you got these shiny ass shorts on, you worried about the wrong shit.
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But I thought to myself, and I was like, you know what?
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Why am I here playing Bruce Leroy with y'all niggas?
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When I get back, and I thought about it too, because the way it started is because I will always talk about on my podcast how I got my ass whooped before, and he hit me up and was like, yo, you tired of getting your ass whooped?
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It's the funnest thing to get in shape, hitting pads and all that shit.
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Yeah, it's like the best way to get a cardio in because it's actually fun to do.
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It's just getting through the suck, like an assault bike.
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You should be allowed to wear whatever fucking shorts you want.
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But you know they sell their own shit, too, so maybe you feel like I was bad out of anybody.
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All that shit they have in their head about what kind of fucking shorts you have, who gives a shit?
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But part two, I just looked at it like I never joined this situation as me trying to fight a nigga.
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No, I get it, because even one time we had a conversation, they was like, man, you gotta know how to protect yourself, and this and that.
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And part two, if a nigga hit me, I'm gonna shoot this nigga.
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Y'all forget that guns exist and we live in Texas.
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I don't give a fuck about how many elbows you throw.
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The climate, the situation that I live in, it's not like, you get what I'm saying?
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Like, bro, so, me doing more trial, having, that was literally, I'm 40 years old.
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But, I think everybody should learn at least some understanding of martial arts.
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One thing it did for me, and I don't want to talk, I hate this, but I had to say, because I will forget, that's my fucked up brain.
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I know podcasts are like, oh, you don't talk about them motherfuckers.
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Because I'm the type of motherfucker, I talk shit.
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Women 5'3", 140 pounds, kicking a bag, you look like, nigga!
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If you're watching the UFC, and you're watching Israel Adesanya versus Alex Pajera, and you're watching the best in the world, and you think, if somebody fucks with me, I'm gonna do something to them.
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It's humbling, because a girl's walking around with 140 pounds, right?
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So that means her muscles and her legs are carrying 140 pounds everywhere she goes.
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If she kicks you in the head, you're going unconscious.
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So yeah, that's what's been happening with my Muay Thai gym.
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Actually, fucking Tony, they had a party for the Adesanya prayer fight.
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No, as I'm saying, I might- Go to someone who respects your shorts.
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You gonna tell him what fucking shorts he can wear?
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This is my first time buying, so it made me feel bad.
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You know how it is when you're trying to be cool?
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I've been wearing just regular shorts, pulling up.
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This is the first time I wore the gym t-shirt to the gym.
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This nigga's like, you worried about the wrong shit.
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I've been going to a normal gym, just doing normal shit, getting in shape.
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Well, that's good, too, but they need to respect the shorts.
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He's still an active kickboxer, but at one point in time, he was one of the best in the world, if not the best, in the heavyweight division, and he would fight golf shorts on.
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I like that because they have the just straight Muay Thai fights and shit like that, so I like watching their shit.
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Yeah, well, Mighty Mouse got through the first round and landed some good shots.
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I mean, a lot of people feel like shit like race baiting and shit like that.
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But you got to think like martial arts and like urban communities are not like...
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It's not a fucking Muay Thai gym up the street.
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So for a person to be from the hood and to be like, man, I want to, you know, get into that shit and get to fighting.
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Boxing is easier to get into, but jujitsu is expensive.
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Because even me, I can't lie, was always like Kronk.
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Like me being from Detroit, it always was boxing gyms around.
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That I could, if I wanted to, I could have gotten shit.
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I know, but just to look around, man, that place is so legendary.
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You one of them type of niggas, you was always about the muscles and kicking niggas.
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And some niggas, bro, some niggas don't care about this, and all they care about is what?
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It's like, people that work out, I got this muscle-ass body, I can take my shirt off and show you how I look.
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But then there's some niggas that's like, no, what, this shirt you took off?
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When you got muscles, niggas don't care what kind of clothes you wear.
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This is the advertisement for Smoke and Joe Frazier's fight from 1971. Come on, man.
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We're not making it like that, but I'm trying to tell you, it's some people...
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It's people in this world that are like, all I gotta do...
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All I gotta do is stay this certain size to be able to fit this certain type of clothing.
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I get it, because there's people that work out...
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There's people that work out that also do that.
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Like, when I see people that are into it, I appreciate it.
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Like, when I see someone that has great style, you have great style.
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I don't like to see a guy who dresses nice and go, look at this fucking idiot.
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What I was saying to say is, that's like a defense mechanism for a lot of people.
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Where they feel like, if I'm just good enough shape to look good in the clothes that I want to wear, that's good enough.
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It's also, it shows that this is what you care about more.
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If you and I were closer, I would try to tell you to not grow up and just stay who you are.
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I know you have, but when I watch your podcast, I'm like, this dude has a fucking hilarious podcast.
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And I go, isn't it amazing that someone could just jump into podcasting?
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But now I get it, because you were always a fan of listening to podcasts.
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You were kind of having those conversations in your head.
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No, and you want to hear some other real shit, too?
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My entire musical career, it wouldn't have been what it was if I didn't do interviews.
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But when you meet me and talk to me, people like that more than they like my music.
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And then once you like me, then you're like, oh, I like his music a little bit.
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I see a lot of hated comics that get a lot of views and doing good for themselves.
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But I think for the most part, if you get better and you keep doing it...
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I did a show with Tony Hinchcliffe, Brian Simpson.
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And Hans Kim at the MGM. Those are all my homies.
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But I mean, most of the time, I just don't give a fuck about what I'm wearing.
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If you was to hop on some fashion shit and show up with a crazy fucking Gucci shirt on or something like that, I would judge you way more than anything else.
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You know, the thing is, with me, it's fashion is about us being, I mean, we won't be in race in urban communities, but, you know, they say, like, black people, when you broke, you don't gotta like that.
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So you just want to kind of look like you gotta like that.
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In my whole fashion, bro, fashion fucked up my school.
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Because I would skip school all the time just to go buy clothes.
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Oh, Hudson's to what people would be, it would be Macy's.
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All me and my fashion buddies, we know, on Tuesday.
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We show up in front of the school like gangbanging, like we about to go do some ill shit.
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But no, we literally just trying to go buy a $40 polo.
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The most somebody probably have on them is $300 at the most.
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I remember I caught an Armani Exchange t-shirt for like $25.
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But when I looked on the tag, it was like $125.
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So the clothes represented something to you that was, like, unattainable.
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Even now, to this day, like, me doing a podcast, I still bring something from school.
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Like, if niggas want to watch the podcast, I haven't worn the same shirt twice.
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Tell everybody, like, you thought the podcast was going to be tomorrow, and you had some shit prepared.
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Part two, I'm glad I didn't, because I feel like people would have seen that.
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No, part two, so I think God did it for a reason.
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Because I probably shouldn't have been on here like that, because I did.
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No, I got this leather jacket, a new leather jacket.
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Will you please wear it the next time you come on?
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But no, no, but I'm glad it happened like this, because I actually was kind of stressed out about it.
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For me, it's like I enjoy flowers, but I'm not planting any.
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My dressing nice, I don't think you would consider it to be dressed nice.
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No, every time I've been in Vegas, I've just been there and I just do what I got going on.
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So let's just say, like, if I go to Vegas, I'll be like, alright, I'm gonna get a thousand out.
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And I just wild out with a little thousand dollars.
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Once I lose my thousand dollars, that's a wrap.
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We were in town for something, and we played blackjack for like an hour.
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And I said, alright, I have like 400 bucks on me.
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Last time I was in Vegas, I'm like, alright, it's time for me to go.
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So I'm like, fuck it, let me just throw a little dollar in.
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Look, so listen, this is the fucked up part of me.
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I started with 100. So my whole shit was like, you know, whatever.
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The only thing that I like to bet on is fights.
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Yeah, I mean, that's the reason why they're so big.
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I've met too many people that were gambling addicts.
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I was always around these dudes that were hardcore gambling addicts.
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Because in New York, you could gamble on horse racing and shit.
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So the pool hall was where all the gambling junkies hung out.
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The idea that it's not legal in some places to me is so stupid.
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I mean, sports gambling is one of the things that's...
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The Adesanya fight, I knew he was going to lose.
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But I would say I bet against him on the Cannoneer fight, so I was...
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Something about the way he looked and the way...
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And I wanted to call all my homies and be like, man, bet, bet, bet against...
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But I didn't want to lose people money, so I just kept my shit to myself and I was like...
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But I honestly felt to myself like, this nigga about to lose.
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You're not seeing that he's thinking he's going to lose or that he's scared to lose.
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What you're seeing is the magnitude of the guy he's about to fight.
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It doesn't change how a man performs once he's under duress and stress, but you can't ignore the magnitude.
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And if you ever go back and watch Mike Tyson fights, this is where you see it the best.
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When dudes were walking into that ring to fight Mike Tyson, they looked like they were being executed.
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Are you saying Israel ain't had that look on his face, do you?
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Israel definitely did not have that look on his face.
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What he had a look on his face is an understanding of what that fucking guy can do.
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You gotta understand, like, people are looking at him beating Izzy, right?
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But you don't understand, nobody even touches Izzy.
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Izzy fights Jan Bohovich, who's the light heavyweight champ.
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The Paulo Costa fight, Paulo Costa is a fucking marauder.
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But that fucking dude just marches people down and smashes them.
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He marched down Yoel Romero and he didn't even touch Izzy.
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Me just fucking with the Muay Thai class and shit.
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Now, imagine talking shit to a guy like Paheta.
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Fucking secretary that's been taking Muay Thai for three years.
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She actually did a session, I mean, a thing at our gym.
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And just even seeing her and how small she is and that, like, bro.
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Well, it's just a little bit of a reality check.
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Listen, no one is ever saying that martial arts are better than having a gun.
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Just for your own head, it's good to know how to fight.
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Last time I was in the gym, they was like, well, you know, we was talking about that kind of conversation.
00:37:17.000
But what I'm saying is, what if somebody wants to fight you?
00:37:21.000
Yeah, but if you don't get to the gun, it's just a good thing.
00:37:26.000
And especially since we're here and you can have it.
00:37:33.000
Do you believe that a well-armed society is a polite society?
00:37:39.000
Because just me being able to travel and like going to like Europe and shit like that where guns aren't a thing and I see how well-behaved people act because of that simple notion.
00:37:49.000
Like right now, like what I talked about, like going to Muay Thai, how much that humbled me and being at...
00:37:54.000
But at the end of the day, I should never have that feeling anyway.
00:37:59.000
But the only reason why I have that feeling is because I know guns exist.
00:38:07.000
But now, in over those countries, it's all about brute strength.
00:38:16.000
And we over here, we got motherfucking niggas over here making 3D printeds.
00:38:31.000
They make fake Rolexes that are exactly the same as a Rolex.
00:38:40.000
It's right because of anything, but a replica of a gun still kill you.
00:38:51.000
Wasn't there a guy that, like, invented this shit a long time ago?
00:38:55.000
And there was, like, some big controversy about it.
00:38:57.000
He was showing people how to 3D print guns, like, on YouTube or something like that.
00:39:02.000
But wasn't there a guy that was, like, one of the first guys that was censored off of YouTube?
00:39:11.000
But I remember when that shit first started happening, where they were making 3D printed guns.
00:39:18.000
And they're like, well, there's no law that can stop it.
00:39:46.000
I fuck up, come in here with too much water in me.
00:39:58.000
You know, motherfuckers talk about that on some workout shit.
00:40:02.000
I'm just actually one of those guys that do that.
00:40:05.000
So I'm like, man, maybe I should take advantage of that shit.
00:40:11.000
I wake up at 5. Because I never was like a workout person.
00:40:14.000
But now I can get so much shit done before my girl even work up.
00:40:20.000
comes, I'm like, oh my, bitch, you don't even know.
00:40:24.000
I gotta watch the dogs and shit and go to sleep and shit.
00:40:27.000
But yeah, so now I've been just taking advantage of being able to wake up that early, you wouldn't know.
00:40:41.000
I think, cause see, oh, I was just talking about, actually, you know who was just here?
00:40:53.000
I was like, man, you might as well come over here with us.
00:41:06.000
I feel like when, you know, y'all as comedians and shit, y'all make specials, it's like instant gratification in essence.
00:41:12.000
Because y'all could do, y'all, I mean, I know y'all worked on a special for years and years, but then y'all actually do it in front of a live audience.
00:41:30.000
I mean, I go on there and I have fun and shit, but...
00:41:41.000
But now I'm starting to take it serious because all y'all motherfuckers keep telling me I'm funny.
00:41:46.000
Tony was telling me that he's trying to get you to do it.
00:41:48.000
No, everybody keeps telling me that I'm funny and they're like, you can do it.
00:41:54.000
But, you know, the thing is that I'm a nerd about it, the writing aspect of it.
00:42:01.000
Even me writing songs, like, I always say this all the time.
00:42:06.000
I mean, I'm better of a writer than I'm a rapper.
00:42:15.000
Just like the way you approach music and the way you now have approached podcasting, you could do stand-up.
00:42:35.000
In the beginning was like, man, I bombed that rap for like 20 years.
00:42:41.000
Why would I want to stand on stage and try to tell jokes and bomb and go through that?
00:42:45.000
But then I actually started thinking about it and I'm like, maybe this is like a second calling in my life.
00:42:53.000
On your show, you have hilarious stories and you've got a great way of telling them.
00:43:03.000
No, that's the thing that I love about doing it.
00:43:15.000
He does these rants, and then he takes chunks of those rants, and they become bits.
00:43:21.000
It's like, what you're doing is next-door neighbor to stand-up.
00:43:27.000
Because you can't always be like, see, I was always that guy.
00:43:31.000
Like, you can be the funniest guy at the family reunion.
00:43:38.000
See, you know how to be in front of the camera.
00:43:46.000
But that's just like your funny uncle who can't go on stage at an open mic night.
00:43:51.000
Yeah, but you're not that because you're not nervous.
00:43:54.000
You're not nervous doing your podcast and you're not nervous when you're rapping.
00:44:01.000
But you tell stories in front of people in front of the camera and they're fucking hilarious.
00:44:09.000
I think the only thing that I'm scared of is that I respect comedy so much and I know it's like it's almost gatekeepy.
00:44:25.000
Let's just imagine, okay, let's say tomorrow, if I'm just super good with comedy, comedians will hate me.
00:44:36.000
The ones that are going to hate you are idiots.
00:44:44.000
Being a comedian is like being in a Royal Rumble.
00:44:46.000
Who don't throw each other off the first, you know what I'm saying?
00:44:49.000
Even now, with podcasting, having a beef with another comedian, like, driving you views.
00:44:54.000
So now I already see, nigga, before we know it, nigga's gonna be like...
00:44:58.000
Podcast comedian beefs gonna be like rap songs and shit.
00:45:03.000
Yeah, well that's always gonna happen with some people.
00:45:05.000
Some people just love to get mad and talk shit about people.
00:45:10.000
But that's the way they get the views and that's the way it drops shit.
00:45:17.000
I'm not gonna participate in that because you're gonna figure out if this Muay Thai works.
00:45:22.000
Nigga come on some podcast talking shit about Danny Brown, nigga.
00:45:25.000
I ain't coming back on no podcast talking about you.
00:45:28.000
What I'm trying to say is you have zero fears about being gatekept.
00:45:33.000
People are just going to want to see if you can do it.
00:45:46.000
Because you got to think, that's a total 360 from my rap career.
00:45:56.000
My rap career is a total different world than what this is.
00:46:03.000
What made that bad is that I started a little too old.
00:46:07.000
So I didn't really get recognition or, you know, until I was 30 years old.
00:46:15.000
And you got to think I've been trying to do this my entire 20s.
00:46:18.000
So when I started to be a rapper and get recognition for it, I had a bitter attitude towards it.
00:46:44.000
Being a rapper is dangerous, like, you know, because all the killings and shit.
00:46:49.000
But I would say being a rapper is dangerous in a sense because once you do it, you can't do nothing else.
00:46:59.000
So let's just say, okay, let's just say I was a rapper and then it failed.
00:47:24.000
So you're always getting acknowledged for your failures.
00:47:27.000
But that's true with anybody in the public eye, man.
00:47:29.000
So just imagine, every time someone recognizes you, they're acknowledging your failure.
00:47:46.000
Anytime when you fail and people get to shit on you and if you're a public person...
00:47:57.000
He started working as a security guard and people would just shit on him relentlessly.
00:48:02.000
Because if he was just a security guard, no one would care.
00:48:04.000
You would never walk up to a security guard and go, look at this fucking loser.
00:48:11.000
So me being Danny Brown, I can never go back to being a normal...
00:48:16.000
Danny, you don't have to, first of all, and don't.
00:48:24.000
I know what you're saying, but you can't think about like worst case scenario and dwell on it like that.
00:48:31.000
You are of personality, and the personality can do anything it wants to do.
00:48:41.000
Because you gotta think, the last album I put out was 2019. Yeah, you were saying that.
00:48:52.000
Just to be able to work with Q-Tip was such a fucking big deal to me.
00:48:58.000
It gave me confidence in my music to be in the fact that A Tribe Called Quest was my dad's favorite rap group.
00:49:07.000
I remember my dad taking me to fucking preschool.
00:49:14.000
But elementary school, my dad taking me to school and he listening to A Tribe Called Quest.
00:49:19.000
And before I know it, one day I'm sitting in the studio with Q-Tip every day working on an album.
00:49:32.000
And I just think the world of music has changed so much.
00:49:39.000
Where like a 10 second TikTok beat means way more than you putting out a single.
00:49:54.000
So, the way I grew up, the way I grew up, like me, my favorite rapper is Nas.
00:50:00.000
And Nas just put on a new album, and that album is fucking amazing.
00:50:08.000
And Nas is able to make music without any fucking...
00:50:14.000
Like, he's got a bunch of different businesses.
00:50:17.000
No, but I'm saying, like, right now, if he's doing rap right now, it's because he wants to do it.
00:50:23.000
He had the whole situation of what he went through.
00:50:46.000
And I've had the opportunity to meet Nas a lot.
00:50:50.000
I don't want to say a lot, but he knows what he means to me.
00:51:19.000
Just because the artist that I looked up to my entire life that made me be a rapper tried to sign me and I didn't sign with them.
00:51:31.000
And now, I'm not saying like I feel any way about being with Warp.
00:51:41.000
Part 2, Warp has made me a better artist than what I actually am.
00:51:46.000
Because, like, okay, this even, like, the album that I just, I made an album during COVID, obviously.
00:51:54.000
We were sitting around when nobody could do nothing, and I just felt like, oh, shit, I ain't.
00:51:59.000
So I just started going to the studio and just started recording songs, making music, record the album, and this is the album that we're going to release.
00:52:07.000
But the album been done for, like, three years.
00:52:21.000
That's what happened when you signed a record label.
00:52:39.000
Being a regular rapper from Detroit, whatever the fuck.
00:52:45.000
I'm not even going to go into Tony Ayo and G on that all weird shit just to get to the point of...
00:52:57.000
It was called CMJ Festival, which was like cool.
00:53:01.000
It was like, you know, same thing as South by Southwest where it is in Texas.
00:53:08.000
And at one of these shows, they had at Brooklyn Bowl, Fools Go Records, Through a show.
00:53:26.000
And to me, I was like, man, Fools Go Records, like, man, they like the hellest shit.
00:53:30.000
Like, if I could ever be cool with Fools Go Records, like, whatever I can do to be down with Fools Go Records, I would do.
00:53:48.000
And I don't think they were really into signing me at the time.
00:53:54.000
But Q-Tip from a tribe called Quest was real close with A-Track, who's one of the owners of Fuzgo.
00:54:04.000
And A-Track was like, man, we thinking about signing Denny Brown.
00:54:15.000
He broke it down to him like, what makes me so ill?
00:54:37.000
So then I already knew I was going to get signed to Fools Goal.
00:54:48.000
Like, I would do an interview and they'd be like, what's going to happen?
00:54:50.000
And I'd be like, oh, I'm signing to Fools Goal.
00:55:01.000
And it was South by Southwest happening the next week.
00:55:06.000
So I literally spent the entire signing bonus at South by Southwest the next week.
00:55:20.000
Like, her banking on me, making it as a rapper.
00:55:32.000
And at the time, no one really thought about the album.
00:55:39.000
But at that time, no one thought that the album would be like a big deal.
00:55:45.000
Ended up, the album would come out at one fucking album of the year in Spin Magazine.
00:55:50.000
It ended up being one of the best albums I ever had in my career.
00:55:54.000
But when you think about it, it's like a person back against the wall.
00:55:57.000
When you listen to the album, I'm back against the wall.
00:56:09.000
The album is called 30. This is an album about a 30-year-old rapper just now starting to get a break and how he feels.
00:56:27.000
I'm saying not like sales wise or anything like that, but culturally, it did good.
00:56:38.000
And, you know, I got a lot of deals and signed a lot of shit.
00:57:11.000
In my head, when you start to make music, you want to be as experimental and to be you as much as point.
00:57:21.000
You don't understand it's the thing called music business.
00:57:28.000
Me, Illmatic was the greatest album I've ever heard in my life.
00:57:33.000
So to me, it's like Illmatic and the other one is Cannibal Ox, Colvain.
00:57:38.000
Like, so, to me, it's like, I'm trying to make albums to mirror those.
00:57:43.000
I'm just trying to, like, as me as a rapper or as an artist or a musician, just trying to, like, shit that I was influenced by, like, try to make a piece of art that could stand next to that.
00:57:55.000
But at this point in life, that shit don't matter no more.
00:57:58.000
Because there's too much money to be made behind this shit.
00:58:08.000
So, do you think that by trying to make something that stands next to that, somehow or another you'll lose money?
00:58:21.000
The shit that we liked in 1994, we don't like it in 2004. I still do.
00:58:26.000
Yeah, we do, but we gotta think about the kids.
00:58:39.000
Bro, Playboy Cardi can shut down this whole shit.
00:58:53.000
See, look, I'm going to be a hater now by saying no.
00:59:06.000
It's not gonna hurt you if he gets a little love.
00:59:17.000
We'll play a little of that just to educate me and educate the people that are listening.
00:59:20.000
And then we'll play Give Me a Danny Brown track.
00:59:25.000
I definitely don't want to hear you after this.
00:59:33.000
My music is like stand-up comedy in that sense.
00:59:38.000
Oh, you want to hear some of my stand-up comedy rap?
00:59:44.000
Bitch, only thing you got to know, my dick touched the ground when I'm Satan, I'm in the flow.
00:59:51.000
Like, you know me, I was into comedy and so I took my whole shit from comedy to where I were raps.
00:59:59.000
So what I would do, I would just sit around and write punchlines all the time.
01:00:15.000
So let's just say if I sit around, I listen to a Joe Rogan episode, someone says an ill punchline on there.
01:01:10.000
So I found her girlfriend and I found her and it was a type of bitch.
01:01:17.000
They went on fucking vacations and all type of shit.
01:01:22.000
And then I'm playing Coachella and it's a good time.
01:01:27.000
But the bitch that's my girl Partner is at Coachella.
01:01:39.000
Me being a real nigga, after I do myself, I'm like, fuck it.
01:01:43.000
I just bust into the crowd trying to look for her.
01:01:49.000
I'm walking through the crowd like a normal person.
01:02:06.000
Went to go watch Slippian Stevens and I guess because of who I am, she just thought I did coke before.
01:02:42.000
But it's not sad to me because I've avoided it successfully.
01:02:44.000
I mean, you can have done everything you've done already and still experience that.
01:02:50.000
When I was in high school, I had a very good friend and his cousin sold coke.
01:02:53.000
His cousin sold coke and his cousin like wrecked his life with coke.
01:02:59.000
I get it, but you could have did it and still be who you are right now.
01:03:07.000
I don't know if drugs that make you more confident are good for me.
01:03:18.000
That might be some shit because that's all I like.
01:03:20.000
I like drugs that make you feel vulnerable and give you more of a sense of community.
01:03:36.000
But you know what I'm saying about drugs that make you confident?
01:03:48.000
Hit me up about the mushrooms and like whatever.
01:04:00.000
It probably changed a lot at the end of that month.
01:04:20.000
Everybody talk about how mushrooms could keep you from drinking.
01:04:23.000
When I started doing mushrooms, for some reason it made me tell me that drinking wasn't bad.
01:04:42.000
Because I was clean as fuck before I started doing the mushrooms.
01:04:55.000
There's a thing that does happen when you do mushrooms.
01:05:00.000
And maybe some people have some anxiety about addictions.
01:05:04.000
Like maybe they're not over it and they still have anxiety about it.
01:05:08.000
And mushrooms alleviate that anxiety sometimes.
01:05:12.000
Like what would make you want to drink or make you want to...
01:05:15.000
It's a weird thing that goes on in a person's mind.
01:05:18.000
No, and addiction to me, and I can say that for mine, I don't know how many people...
01:05:25.000
I've been through so much in my life, and even this and that, like even now, like my fucking aunt passed, and it is what it is, like man...
01:05:36.000
I would say, man, like, that's what I try to tell you about me and my music career.
01:05:42.000
Because it's like, my family, they look at me like I'm the richest motherfucker in the world.
01:05:51.000
Have you ever heard a Danny Brown song on the radio?
01:06:01.000
Just the fact that I've made it into music and I'm someone...
01:06:12.000
Music put me more into debt than if I didn't do it.
01:06:21.000
Like, so, my first album that I had, well, I'm not saying my first album, but with Triple X. With Triple X, they're good, and they gave all these people, boom, boom, these artists, they're good.
01:06:33.000
And then I did Old, Old did good, did that, boom, boom, boom.
01:06:42.000
So now I have these record labels, all of them courting me, boom, boom.
01:06:49.000
Warp gives me a fucking damn near quarter million dollar fucking budget to make an album.
01:07:00.000
Nigga, before you know it, I was asking for more money!
01:07:05.000
So I went crazy, made a fucking quarter million...
01:07:11.000
Spent all the money I could possibly spend on this fucking album to make the best part of the album that I make.
01:07:18.000
Now that the album has been made, I don't feel bad about it.
01:07:26.000
When you get a spare time to yourself, Joe Rogan.
01:07:44.000
He shot that video for the second single, Ain't It Funny.
01:07:49.000
Even shooting that video was such a fucking crazy situation.
01:08:02.000
Physical attention from older men makes me feel validated.
01:10:24.000
I mean, it's very disturbing and very crazy and very funny.
01:10:27.000
But being artistically, but that's artistic freedom.
01:10:32.000
But you don't get props like that no more for that kind of shit.
01:10:41.000
Tell me you haven't gotten more people paying attention to music now that you started doing podcasts.
01:10:58.000
Would you know in terms of streamings and downloads?
01:11:22.000
This is what I'm trying to tell you, like, the new album that I have.
01:11:39.000
That album you listen to was XXX. 30. 30. Yeah.
01:11:58.000
Hopefully this Joe Rogan episode makes it happen faster.
01:12:14.000
Is it possible to be independent now as a rapper?
01:12:25.000
So I've been making songs and constantly making songs for like the past two, three years.
01:12:31.000
And now I get the actual final track listing of what the album is going to be.
01:12:39.000
I've been wasting my time making those new songs.
01:12:41.000
And it's new songs that I love, that I want to, you know, to be out on this.
01:12:49.000
But when I do listen to the album that they picked, I realize why they are a record company.
01:13:07.000
Because I'm not about to even talk shit about them and be bad about it because they do.
01:13:23.000
The thing about comedy is it's beautiful because the audience is your editor.
01:13:58.000
I mean, this will be testing me to make me do it.
01:14:06.000
If you got some ideas, you want to bounce around.
01:14:15.000
It's a matter of finding out how to do that on stage, and I don't think it's a long journey for you.
01:14:20.000
I think for some people it's a long fucking journey.
01:14:22.000
There's some people that are like quiet, introspective.
01:14:24.000
You know, I think the only thing that would probably make it shorter because I've been rapping and performing on stage for years.
01:14:28.000
You've been rapping, you've been performing on stage, and you've also been doing a podcast where you're funny.
01:15:09.000
You know, it's a thing that you do, you get your feet wet, and then you're going to want to be really good at it.
01:15:19.000
I know how to talk on stage, and I just don't have a routine.
01:15:24.000
Yeah, well, like I said, five minutes is not that long.
01:15:54.000
But I remember there was a time when being a rapper and your teacher asked you what you want to be when you grow up and I would say being a rapper and everybody would laugh at me and then so it got to the point where I'd be like, I didn't say a rapper no more, I said a comedian.
01:16:13.000
It doesn't mean shit what label they put on what you do.
01:16:29.000
You don't have to say it, but you're professionally Danny Brown.
01:17:00.000
You wanna hear some real shit about that, though?
01:17:05.000
Where me being in that, and I feel like a lot of comedians, they didn't fuck with that shit.
01:17:14.000
I just told these niggas, bro, to me in my head, comedians, everything with that shit is Royal Rumble.
01:17:26.000
And especially if you're not in that mix, a person like me.
01:17:29.000
So me, a rapper, they don't want to help me or do anything.
01:17:48.000
I work for them niggas, so I don't even look at them as friends no more.
01:17:56.000
I tell you when I called him up and I told him how much I like your show, he's like, he's so funny.
01:18:08.000
I don't want to get it to the point where I feel like it's overproduced.
01:18:18.000
And all he does is press buttons and pull shit up and give his opinions.
01:18:22.000
But in our heads, in our world, in our world of outside looking in, we look at this shit as like the biggest produced podcast.
01:18:34.000
I go to places like fucking 10 dudes behind a glass wall, fake laughing and pressing buttons and shit.
01:18:54.000
You could just point your fucking camera at you.
01:19:11.000
If I wanted to, like, do something outside of that...
01:19:15.000
Then I would want them to still be involved in it.
01:19:18.000
If you were doing something with some, like, fucking fake podcast network, you know, like, there's...
01:19:30.000
They're like, there's some networks out there that are only...
01:19:35.000
What I'm trying to say is your situation's amazing.
01:19:38.000
But there's other people out there that get into a bad situation.
01:19:42.000
And they find out these companies own 50% of their podcasts forever.
01:19:50.000
There was a lot of shady people that got involved in podcasting.
01:20:07.000
No, now it's a lot of money involved in this shit, but I just...
01:20:11.000
Because I feel like me showing up like me right now, talking to you, I would do this for free.
01:20:17.000
I would do it for free too, but that's the beauty of doing a podcast.
01:20:25.000
The problem with what I'm saying about these podcast networks is they're not really providing anything.
01:20:30.000
They might be providing production, they might be providing a studio, but without content, they don't have anything.
01:20:38.000
And if they're taking half of it and you're creating the content, which can happen, that's a crazy deal.
01:20:50.000
And I've also seen a lot of comics when they're getting signed to like agents and like kind of shitty manager types.
01:20:56.000
The manager type will try to take a percentage of the podcast too.
01:21:00.000
So they own a piece of your shit as long as you're doing it.
01:21:03.000
So that was the whole shit that I'm trying to tell you.
01:21:10.000
He told me like, he like, hit me up like, you got the talent to do like a podcast.
01:21:16.000
But I'm like, if I would have did it on my own, I wouldn't be talking to you right now.
01:21:22.000
You did it with them, which is perfect, because they'll support you 100%.
01:22:03.000
I feel bad because I got them all signed up to the Muay Thai gym.
01:22:10.000
Maybe they'll listen to this and take you back.
01:22:12.000
No, I already told them why I'm switching gyms.
01:22:16.000
No, we already talked about why I'm switching gyms.
01:22:51.000
And I had like an ill-ass, big-ass house in Michigan and shit.
01:23:29.000
With this bitch I done put in jujitsu class that look at me every day like, I could beat this nigga up.
01:23:38.000
She don't even care nothing about what I talk about.
01:23:47.000
It got to the point, it got so far to the point she got so far to jujitsu, she was teaching a kids class.
01:24:07.000
So I think that's what ruined our relationship.
01:24:12.000
So she come home and look at me, and I'm like, damn, you fucking them Jiu-Jitsu niggas, bitch?
01:24:17.000
You see them muscle-bound-ass niggas at class and shit?
01:24:21.000
You come back to the crib, me, I'm a regular nigga, you know what I'm saying?
01:24:30.000
Yeah, it could be an uncomfortable situation if you're dating a woman that could kill you.
01:24:36.000
Because there be times where we're having a little conversation and I can just see her.
01:24:39.000
She like, nigga, I can whoop your ass, my nigga.
01:24:46.000
I put her in jujitsu, on some shelf, being in Michigan.
01:24:51.000
And then Detroit, and at the time, like, you know what's happening with LA, too?
01:24:55.000
How all the people are fucking robbing, like, when they see, like, celebrities, he's not at the crib.
01:25:03.000
Like, I don't know if you know, but, like, last week, Nas, we talking shit about Nas.
01:25:10.000
So, they look at, and they see when you have to do shit, and you're not home, man.
01:25:29.000
So yeah, they breaking in every nigga house, bro.
01:25:32.000
If you got a house in L.A., yeah, they gonna...
01:25:40.000
I feel sad because my little homie is a looper.
01:25:46.000
Now he just moved to LA. He's been out there for a few months and he's been doing his thing.
01:26:00.000
It's one of those type of situations where I can't tell him you shouldn't be out there because he's getting work out there.
01:26:33.000
Yeah, what did you do that someone shot your car?
01:26:38.000
I think it was like SUV and they got out of the car.
01:26:42.000
I didn't realize that someone shot the back of their car.
01:26:49.000
See, her and the other bitch that finessed the shit on the college tuitions.
01:26:58.000
You're talking about the scam where they were getting their kids into college.
01:27:06.000
See, that's how you know black people are racist, too.
01:27:11.000
Pfeiffer's was chauffeuring the actress 51 to a film studio when the male driver behind them got irritated that we're having a hard time finding the place, TMZ reported.
01:27:21.000
The outlet claimed that Pfeiffer's let the upset driver, who was allegedly shouting at them, While trying to squeeze in front of the car past them.
01:27:32.000
That's when the driver allegedly shot at Pfeiffer's and Richard's vehicle, striking the back end of the driver's side.
01:27:48.000
Denise Richard's husband shoots a lot of her OnlyFans content.
01:28:05.000
Only thing I saw is Denise Richards' husband shoots a lot of her OnlyFans content.
01:28:35.000
When you get into that world of taking photos...
01:28:37.000
Only thing I watch on YouTube is Wave 360 tutorials.
01:28:44.000
It says, the outlet know that Pfeiffer's 50 stayed with the Real Housewives alum as she powered through and worked for 12 hours.
01:29:47.000
They made a clip of Duncan and I, all the different costumes we've worn.
01:30:09.000
You know, when I first got on stage, I almost didn't.
01:30:19.000
I can get on stage and talk shit for whatever the fuck.
01:30:23.000
But the thing is, it's a friend group that I'm starting...
01:30:32.000
I'd rather bomb and be trash in my own presence and not around y'all.
01:30:55.000
You know what's fucked up, though, about comedy?
01:31:09.000
Actually, that was the first person that actually ever told me that I could ever do something in comedy.
01:31:15.000
Now I used to be, you know, my rap shit and do whatever.
01:31:18.000
And I would do festivals and out of nowhere, Hannibal Buress would just show up backstage.
01:31:33.000
But one day I was backstage and I was just talking shit.
01:31:37.000
And I was talking about, um, you play Mario Brothers, right?
01:31:44.000
And I was just like, um, Mario's like a home invasion rapist.
01:31:54.000
Why is he kicking them castle doors down, stealing princesses?
01:31:59.000
When did you know princesses had anything to do with plumbers?
01:32:04.000
And then you remember back in our day, his name was King Cooper.
01:32:20.000
It got so weird that they had to change his name into be Bowser.
01:32:27.000
Because they don't want to make you feel like...
01:32:34.000
Kickin' in doors to castles, you gotta think, if you play Mario Bros.
01:32:43.000
Bitch, boom, boom, boom, bitch, uh-uh, take this, uh-uh.
01:32:46.000
And then, you make it all the way to the princess, who said, this nigga named King Cooper, right?
01:33:06.000
The bitch never said she wanted to go with Mario.
01:33:17.000
If you play with Luigi, you can't beat no game with Luigi.
01:33:22.000
If you play Mario Brothers 2, like when you're picking the fucking rutabagas, that's what I call them.
01:33:34.000
At the end of the day, Mario Brothers was home invasion rapists.
01:33:39.000
And they trained a lot of kids into a lot of shit that we weren't supposed to be into.
01:33:44.000
What do you think things like Modern Warfare, like when people are playing these Modern Warfare games?
01:33:52.000
But do you think that people, when they play those games, like Urban Warfare games, they're very popular, right?
01:34:01.000
Yeah, Modern Warfare 2. So Modern Warfare is the big one, right?
01:34:06.000
There's another one, like Fortnite, similar style of game, but you're doing way different stuff the whole entire time.
01:34:12.000
But Modern Warfare is basically like you're at war.
01:34:24.000
If you're gonna play games and shoot niggas and being fun, that's not fun to me.
01:34:38.000
It's about some teenage kids that went to school and the murder happened and we gotta figure out the murder.
01:34:59.000
So you're like living, like you're playing the game as you're a character in this anime.
01:35:08.000
And you only know the story unless you beat the game.
01:35:10.000
There's a lot of games now that you have to go on a journey.
01:35:13.000
If you got caught up into the story and you love the video game, it's going to make you beat the game to know what happens in the story.
01:35:22.000
But they've been making Joker look sexy as fuck.
01:35:33.000
There's a lot of games now where you're basically going on this hyper-realistic journey.
01:35:39.000
It's not as simple as just going and pressing things and shooting things.
01:36:04.000
NBA 2K. That's what I was just talking about with Hannibal.
01:36:07.000
NBA 2K is like the nigga version of the metaverse.
01:36:21.000
They've been training us to get adapted to the metaverse.
01:36:24.000
Have you fucked with any VR? Have you done anything?
01:36:32.000
I might be too old for just having something on your head.
01:36:36.000
I mean, it's not actual what happens to content that I see.
01:36:43.000
Do you think that as it gets lighter, it'll get more easy to accept?
01:37:00.000
Bro, it's only one of the times the Batman VR. You played that?
01:37:08.000
The things that are really good to me are the shadowboxing ones.
01:37:11.000
Because you're having a boxing match against this robot.
01:37:19.000
That's what fucked me up on VR. That's why I don't fuck with it no more.
01:37:39.000
I beat it in three days, but I thought I was Batman for them three days.
01:37:42.000
I'm talking about, so day number two, ain't no bitch could talk to me.
01:37:48.000
The first day when I started, it was like, ugh.
01:37:51.000
But day number two when I was fully fledged, nigga, I was Batman.
01:37:59.000
That's the thing I love about video games, that I'd be able to escape into a whole other world, this and that.
01:38:08.000
But I think that's now where shit are starting to, with metaverses and shit is starting to collide a little bit.
01:38:23.000
That us going into some virtual world is inevitable.
01:38:26.000
And it's probably just a natural progression of what consciousness does when it can control technology to a certain point.
01:38:34.000
It probably gets to a certain point, then it creates an artificial technology.
01:38:38.000
Is it going to take 100 years before we're all doing it?
01:38:42.000
But we're going to be plugged in like the fucking Matrix.
01:38:49.000
But the Metaverse itself, I was reading something about how Meta's stock is down because of all this investment in the Metaverse, right?
01:38:59.000
That could probably also be because their Metaverse is different from what everybody else wanted.
01:39:04.000
They're trying to make their own thing, the corporate version.
01:39:06.000
I just told y'all I was talking about with Hannibal.
01:39:09.000
The nigga version of Metaverse is NBA 2K. If you play NBA 2K, my nigga, bro, you make your own character.
01:39:18.000
Whatever basketball player you want to be, like I want to be 6'6", 250, I want to play for Orlando Magic.
01:39:27.000
Then you're on that team, then you're playing it like every day, like literally playing like...
01:39:38.000
Like, even now, like, I play 2K games, like, oh.
01:39:49.000
They're so good right now and they're going to be so much better.
01:39:51.000
As addictive as they are now, imagine how addictive games are going to be in 20 years or 30 years.
01:39:57.000
Because 20 years ago, man, they were blocky looking.
01:40:06.000
I mean, I don't even want to say what I want to say.
01:40:18.000
My mouth was in front of the mic the right time when I said what I had to say.
01:40:25.000
When you click the button, and that's what's...
01:40:41.000
The power wash simulator people would just power wash.
01:41:02.000
This is all I've been talking about on my podcast for the past.
01:41:25.000
How is, when I finish the entire level, and then it's like two, it's like two, it'd be like some dirt under the table.
01:41:32.000
Bro, there's a simulation of driving a truck down an empty highway.
01:41:42.000
I feel like you're a person that will get into a video and you love it.
01:42:07.000
It's not about speed, it's about dropping shit off.
01:42:08.000
How is a truck simulator real with no lizard lots?
01:42:13.000
Is this how they're teaching this guy to drive?
01:42:17.000
And I want to be honest, the video I just clicked, that could be this, but I was just trying to find someone's craziest simulator.
01:42:32.000
My favorite drug dealer simulator, like on your own dispensaries and shit.
01:42:39.000
Look, this is the video that we're playing, Joe.
01:42:53.000
Weed Farmer is a Weed Farmer game with fake water.
01:43:13.000
For some reason, I think that would be like, if I would think like who I'm selling this video game to.
01:43:27.000
Like he was talking to a pilot about engines and all kinds of different things.
01:43:31.000
Part two, Tony, me and Tony, I got me and Tony.
01:43:33.000
Tony does these all the time, these flight simulators.
01:44:14.000
Bro, these niggas been finessing and been making so much money off RuneScape for years.
01:44:30.000
The RuneScape with how it happens with video games.
01:44:43.000
Why do you wish you were on the other side of the fence?
01:44:45.000
Because I ain't getting none of that RuneScape money!
01:44:59.000
Somebody, I thought he was a RuneScape type man.
01:45:11.000
Don't cut this out, because I feel like people will know, but like, damn, they will get what I'm talking about.
01:45:15.000
Like, damn, Joe seems like a runescape type of nigga.
01:45:18.000
It's like a little bit of like a World of Warcraft kind of thing.
01:45:28.000
Those World of Warcraft games, or what was the other one that existed, the big one before that?
01:45:39.000
But there was another game that Duncan got sucked into.
01:45:46.000
Duncan got addicted hard to one of those fantasy games, where you're like...
01:45:53.000
Like, there's a lot of other people, and you're doing tasks together and shit, and you're in the forest with elves and shit.
01:46:15.000
I just feel like there was a game that was like, maybe it's World of Warcraft.
01:46:19.000
I don't remember which one it was, but it was one of the first of those games where people just kind of lost their life to.
01:46:25.000
There was a dude who was the manager of the comedy store, and this dude's face was pale.
01:46:33.000
Yeah, well, he definitely has played StarCraft.
01:46:48.000
And he was like, I'm so good at making money in the game and so bad at doing it in real life.
01:46:55.000
These niggas have been selling CS gold skins and shit.
01:46:58.000
These niggas have been millionaires on video games.
01:47:04.000
You can sell some of the stuff that you earn in the game, right?
01:47:12.000
See, the thing is for me in video games, a lot of people look at me like I'm a super gamer, but I play their games in a sense to review them.
01:47:24.000
I play games because I don't want to tell people that I think something is trash that I didn't have nothing to do with.
01:47:37.000
Right now, the new game, I can't even think of the name of it.
01:47:44.000
But the whole game is about starting your own cult.
01:47:51.000
So you start your cult and you know, so the whole shit is about, you know, running a cult.
01:48:02.000
I don't, you know, if you think like Modern Warfare, Call of Duty type thing, inspires people to shoot people.
01:48:08.000
I wonder if like starting a cult would inspire people to start a cult.
01:48:20.000
How many people that are in a cult think they're in a cult?
01:48:35.000
Yeah, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.
01:48:42.000
But no, when I think about it, I could have started a fucking cult in Detroit.
01:49:09.000
I mean, if some bitchy be like, oh, you gonna let me pee on you?
01:49:25.000
See, this is before me, before I was a one-woman man.
01:49:31.000
But this video game thing, like this cult thing you do, at least it's like cartoony, right?
01:49:42.000
That would be a creepy fucking game if you started a realistic cult.
01:50:10.000
See, the thing is about making rap songs and shit is like, you can be as cool as you want with rap songs, but it's cool as hell to rhyme words.
01:50:24.000
Like, you can rhyme words that sound cool and it's just like, you know, it not have nothing to do with fucking comedy or nothing, but it's funny.
01:50:35.000
And so now you're telling me to get on stage and be funny without the rhyming funny words.
01:50:43.000
Yeah, but you're already doing it when you're doing your podcast.
01:50:56.000
If you don't have to do it tonight, if you want to do it in the future, you can prepare for it.
01:51:07.000
And that was, God told me, oh, you're going to be a rapper.
01:51:12.000
Try to be a rapper and try my best to be a rapper and rap as much as I could.
01:51:19.000
If I grew up in fucking some weird suburb and I wasn't a black nigga and rap wasn't just a thing around me, would I have been doing comedy?
01:51:35.000
Or shit like that, so I feel like when they talk about 100 hours, I only think I'm good at rapping because I did 100 hours.
01:51:47.000
100 hours, everybody's like, damn, that's all it takes?
01:51:52.000
Oh, I definitely did over 10,000 hours when it comes to rap.
01:51:58.000
I think that's probably the case with everything, to get good at it.
01:52:08.000
But I think you have a head start, because I think some of your hours already count.
01:52:12.000
It's like you're transferring your education from a different school.
01:52:15.000
So, me doing this podcast, I'm going to do the podcast, and then just hanging around with someone, Tom.
01:52:24.000
I look at y'all guys, like, in a total different light.
01:52:28.000
And then y'all be like, oh, you can do this shit.
01:52:57.000
Every album I put out has sold less records every time.
01:53:06.000
You know how they say, like, a person, like, if you don't change anything that you do, you're, like, retarded.
01:53:16.000
Like, every album that I made is the same album in some sense.
01:53:20.000
But I'm just tinkering with what I thought was bad the last album and just trying to make a better album with every album.
01:53:47.000
In the world of rap music we'll be dealing with.
01:54:03.000
Is it possible to not be involved in a record deal with a company?
01:54:07.000
If you believe in yourself that much, but we need the money from the record companies to make us keep going.
01:54:15.000
They're providing the initial investment that gets you going.
01:54:20.000
So, but at the end of the day, when they give you that initial investment, all they do is just tie you in.
01:54:44.000
It's not what people say about when you go on Metacritic.
01:54:51.000
So my whole shit was about as long as I get a high score in Metacritic and, you know, whatever.
01:55:05.000
Motherfucker can die, and they're going to Google what was the best reviewed albums in 2022, and they're going to see Danny Brown.
01:55:14.000
So my whole shit was that, and I did that, and...
01:55:27.000
Does it concern you, the amount of time that you'd have to do stand-up for to get good at it?
01:55:49.000
I thought about that, and I was like, man, yeah...
01:56:08.000
And a lot of times I think about me being a rapper.
01:56:11.000
Is that just because the environment that I grew up in?
01:56:17.000
I just literally lived in fucking the hood, and that was the coolest shit to do.
01:56:23.000
I could do comedy then, but it wasn't a cool thing to push comedy for me at that.
01:56:29.000
But everybody was cool with me being a rapper, so...
01:56:32.000
Do you think if there was comedy, if it was a cool thing to do comedy, you would do that?
01:56:43.000
You know when your teacher asks you what you want to be when you grow up type shit?
01:56:52.000
So it got to the point where I stopped saying I want to be a rapper.
01:56:55.000
And I would say I want to be a stand-up comedian.
01:56:59.000
But then the teacher would ask me to do stand-up comedian shit.
01:57:06.000
Because I remember one time the teacher asked me, we had like a...
01:57:10.000
You know, like a holiday program we gotta put on for this shit.
01:57:22.000
And I had like a poetry thing that I was gonna do in this shit.
01:57:29.000
And I remember just reading this shit, and I was like, man, this shit, whack.
01:57:34.000
Like, I knew me to myself, like, reading the poems and shit.
01:57:38.000
Like, I can make some ill shit way better than this.
01:57:46.000
Instead of me doing the actual poems I was supposed to do, I just started just doing random raps.
01:57:51.000
And then the whole class, like, the school, everybody, like...
01:58:00.000
And I was like, damn, you know, like, that's probably what I should be doing then.
01:58:09.000
Like, even then, like, I was, um, I rapped the entire time.
01:58:13.000
Like, I would go to school, like, being in, like, middle school, like, sixth grade or whatever the fuck.
01:58:18.000
It'd be always one kid that'd pop up and try to, like, rap and, like, be a rapper.
01:58:25.000
And I'd just be, like, just sitting in a corner to myself, like, and this would be, like, my time to shine.
01:58:34.000
But from that one day, it would make me the most popular kid in school instantly.
01:58:41.000
Literally happened, like, Bro, I did every year in school.
01:58:52.000
I bust a rap, and then the whole entire school looked at me different.
01:59:02.000
Because I actually learned how to write a rap was from one of my, like, a kid, Kevin Willis.
01:59:18.000
But this nigga would show up on some throwback shit.
01:59:35.000
And you want to hear the fucked up part about it?
01:59:51.000
That's why even when y'all talk about comedy, like, I can do it.
01:59:55.000
I just don't, you know, I'm just, you know, I'm just being a bitch-ass nigga about it.
02:00:05.000
And then you do it, and you realize, oh, maybe I can get better at this.
02:00:26.000
Just make sure you time it out to five minutes.
02:00:35.000
I don't think too many people get as lucky as me.
02:00:40.000
And it's to me to fucking take care of the blessings and really appreciate them and go hard with it.
02:01:07.000
Because I was the hot rapper for five years, and I did that.
02:01:11.000
And I was able to push it to start hanging with y'all niggas and do comedy shit.
02:01:15.000
And then it kind of like pressed it here and there to where it wasn't like no dick riding shit.
02:01:22.000
To where it looked like I was trying to like...
02:01:29.000
To where I got the fucking podcast with time though.
02:01:32.000
So if you watch me as being a Danny Brown fan, you super watched my whole progression of this shit to get to here.
02:01:44.000
The people that are super fans of me, they get this shit and they do it, they're like, oh, this is what he supposed to be doing.
02:01:50.000
This nigga been like, bro, this nigga been fighting for this.
02:01:54.000
So for me being here talking shit is like, bro, I supposed to be here doing this shit.
02:01:59.000
The only thing I don't understand is just because I think I love the writing aspect.
02:02:12.000
You said the only thing I don't understand, I like the writing aspect.
02:02:15.000
Because the shit you write don't necessarily mean you can go on stage and it can be funny.
02:02:35.000
Sometimes you write something and it's good right away.
02:02:54.000
Like, people that I really respect with this comedy shit, they're like, no, you can do this shit.
02:02:59.000
And it's like, bro, like, I would be retarded not to try.
02:03:12.000
Your writing thing is not much different than any other kind of writing.
02:03:16.000
It's just expressing your thoughts and getting it down on print and just put it in on a computer and And it really is a lot of it is about the time spent thinking about the subjects that when you're writing you have to think about these subjects like a lot of people like to write in their head which is great too but when you write when you're looking at a piece of paper or when you're looking at a screen and you're typing now you're really thinking about it and it's extra time thinking about it.
02:03:46.000
So let's just say if I come up with Four punchlines.
02:04:03.000
I write four lines, three lines that come up with that, and then that's the fourth line because that's the big line.
02:04:19.000
If you think about it, so all I gotta do is have these, all I gotta do is figure out four punchlines.
02:04:32.000
So I would come up with these four lines, write these punchlines.
02:04:36.000
It don't matter what the song is to it, I will figure these out.
02:04:42.000
Now what we're coming to realize is like, that's what stand-up comedy is.
02:04:47.000
So the entire time where I thought I was being a rapper and I was writing raps, I was lightly writing...
02:04:55.000
When I talk to other rappers, they don't write raps like that.
02:05:06.000
I was doing stand-up the entire time, and I didn't realize it.
02:05:15.000
Like last night, if I hear a punchline, like there's something that I think is funny to myself.
02:05:22.000
And last night it was, um, I was talking to them about it before the last podcast.
02:05:33.000
That's the most, I get why they call it deviled eggs.
02:05:39.000
I'm a, you gotta get your protein however you can get it.
02:05:43.000
But, alright, we were talking about abortions and this and that.
02:05:52.000
But they took you, they scrambled you up, then put you back into the mix, then fed you the next.
02:06:00.000
This is like the most, like, gruesome shit you can do to anybody.
02:06:07.000
You gonna tell me, bro, if you take my shell...
02:06:10.000
You take me, all my skin, and you're going to take all this, throw some mayonnaise and some...
02:06:16.000
Do you know that deviled eggs are eggs that are not fertilized?
02:06:21.000
This is not like a logical premise, because those eggs aren't fertilized.
02:06:30.000
A fertilized egg is an egg when the rooster fucks the hen, and then the egg could become a person.
02:06:42.000
Because you're talking about gruesomely turning up what it means to be you.
02:07:01.000
They're building a chicken coop in my house right now.
02:07:21.000
And if it really was you were eating babies, it makes sense.
02:07:24.000
But most people know that that's not really what's going on.
02:07:29.000
It's like one of them things where someone has to...
02:07:35.000
You know, sometimes you have some funny ideas and you don't realize that it's not logical.
02:07:46.000
Yeah, yeah, that was the one I thought was really funny.
02:07:49.000
Well, Danny Brown, we're gonna work on some stuff then.
02:07:53.000
We're gonna come up with a fucking game plan in five minutes tonight.
02:07:57.000
Don't tell me that, because I'm really serious about it.
02:08:12.000
And the last thing they want to see is a nigga like me.
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And get good at this shit and then blow and then be fired.
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I don't think, like, Danny, you can't think like this.
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But you're saying it over and over and over again.
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Whoever's gatekeeping comedy, they're not good.
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Most comedians, most comedians, if you're killing it, would be happy.
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I would love to be able to make music without any...
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Like when I can get to the point in my life where...
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Right, you wish you could just do whatever you enjoy and then make money off of it.
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So I can't sit around and act like it's not a big deal.
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That's on my Twitters and fucking Instagrams or whatever the fuck is that.
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I suck to be on fucking Joe Rogan and have nothing to sell.