Danny Brown on The Downside of Rap

So I'm already in my head . Like I will say a lot of people say like being a rapper is dangerous like you know , cause all the killings and shit like , but I would say being a rapper is dangerous in a sense because once you do it , you can't do nothing else , it ruined you . Let's just say OK , let's just say I was a rapper and then it failed .

Danny Brown on The Downside of Rap

I say that to say this , OK , as me as a kid from Detroit . Got good at rap . All right , I know how to rap .

Danny Brown on The Downside of Rap

Because it takes so long for it to happen , that happened . And now I'm 30 years old , it's a 30 year old rapper is like the , it's like a ticking time bomb at that point like how much time you got ? Really ?

Danny Brown on The Downside of Rap

The whole album , 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 , you know ? Yeah .

Danny Brown on The Downside of Rap

When I'm saying I'm the float . See , that's the thing about rap . Like um you know me , I was into comedy and so I took my whole shit from comedy to our raps .