Danny Brown on The Downside of Rap

The Joe Rogan experience . My rap career is a total different world than what this is . My rep career would say what made that bad is that I , I've started a little too old so I didn't really get recognition or you know , until I was 30 years old .

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

And you gotta think I've been trying to do this my entire twenties . So when I started to be a rapper , get recognition for it and being that I had a bitter attitude towards it . You get what I'm saying ?

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

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 .