"We got into a bad car accident as kids. Me, my little cousins, my brothers and sisters, we got hit by a garbage truck. I remember waking up, laying in the middle of the street. Thankfully, none of us died. I was gone from kindergarten for like a month. When I got back to school, there was a show-and-tell kind of thing. I just got back, so I didn't have nothing to show or tell."
"Because his parents were young, they partied. They would often ship their kids out on the weekend to whoever was available to watch them. That's where I was exposed to a lot of bullshit, he says. I wanted to be a rapper, so I had to have something to rap about. But I didn't start getting into trouble till I was 18."
Danny Brown is a rapper, songwriter, podcaster, and occasional actor from Detroit, now on his sixth studio album, Stardust. He grew up as the oldest of four with very young parents; his father often occupied the latest video-game consoles and his parents frequently partied, which exposed him to chaotic situations. Brown began rapping as a child after a serious car accident and performed throughout school. He supported his early music by dealing drugs and served eight months in jail in 2007. Brown has moved away from that life; Stardust is the first album he wrote entirely sober.
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