50 Cent's a songwriter. He understood and liked my music, but he... by Danny Brown

50 Cent's a songwriter. He understood and liked my music, but he didn't understand me.

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There was a long time in my life where I made music that I thought my friends would like, or that I thought would get me a record deal, or what I thought I was supposed to make because that's what I was seeing in mainstream. I didn't know myself; I didn't find myself musically or, in real life.

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I love Michigan, to be honest. I don't think I'd live nowhere else. It's cheap! This is Detroit. A little bit of nothing gets you a lot of something.

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If I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to pu... by Danny Brown

If I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to put it out. It has to last months.

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From an early age, music was my only thing. You come from Detroit, you learn how to make the most of what you can do best.

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In terms of fashion, I think the biggest influence that I had was my father. My pops, he was really into men's fashion and read all of the magazines.

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I don't care about sex anymore. It's a headache. It's hard to trust people. You talk to a girl, and then she screenshots a text message.

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I would never design anything. I just think that's kind of wack. I hated every rapper fashion line that ever came out, you know what I'm saying? I would never try.

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I'm from my hood, and everybody knows me in my neighborhood, and that's cool, I can do what I want over there, but in other people's neighborhoods, I can't.

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90% trust peers on social networks (even strangers); only 15-18%... by Danny Brown

90% trust peers on social networks (even strangers); only 15-18% trust brands.

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At the end of the day, I think that I'm making music for me as that 12-year-old kid in front of my boombox every day. I try to think about, if I'm that little kid, what would he like?

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I dress for a certain type of girl that I like. Women dress for us, they dress to attract us, so we should at least show that gratitude to them, you know what I'm saying?

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Just knowing how to rap doesn't necessarily mean that you're a go... by Danny Brown

Just knowing how to rap doesn't necessarily mean that you're a good songwriter.

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You can't predict the number of years it will take for someone to find themselves, to mature into their own voice. When I got to be 30, I was finally writing like Danny Brown.

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