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Getting Down with Danny Brown

Noisey caught up with Danny Brown to discuss Adderall come-downs and camping.

Our super-enthusiastic friends over at VICE Netherlands recently got to kick it with the cutest MC with the stupidest hairdo, Mr Danny Brown. Our Dutch colleagues claimed that Danny “enables shy boys from the Dutch countryside to love him like pregnant women love rolled herring”, which is about the most Dutch sentence ever.

Anyway, for their festival guide, they quizzed DB on everything from getting fucked-up on Adderall, the joys of slumming it suburban-style and, foot fetishes.

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NOISEY: First thing’s first, what’s the best Adderall story you have?

Danny Brown: I guess the craziest one was the first time I ever took it. I saw an MTV documentary about it, and it didn’t seem like a bad thing to me, and I thought to myself. 'Shit, I might use this shit for writing raps and shit,' you know? So I took it and went out to buy a notebook and then I wrote a song. It was actually the first song I recorded for The Hybrid, and it was called "The Hybrid," which is how I came up with the title of the album and the whole moniker. So I guess the first time I ever did it, it brought forth this whole wave. I’m actually, like, crashing off Adderall right now. I just wrote mad songs, so… Yeah, I’m always crashing, haha.

How bad is it? Amphetamine crashes aren’t good, I hear.

Yeah, it sucks! At the end of the day you just… it just makes you unhappy. There’d be a lot of times where I'd be like, "What the fuck am I mad at?" And then I just think about all the shit that’s been going good for me, and I know it just has to be an Adderall comedown, just something fucking with my social skills. I take Aderall so much sometimes I don’t even know what I’m coming down off. It’s like a bipolar thing. For some reason I’ll get upset, or just get sad. And there will really be nothing for me to be upset or sad about. The only thing that does fuck me about it is that it just makes me emo as fuck, you know?

Read the rest over at NOISEY.