Danny Brown Says He’s Writing a Children’s Book Inspired by Dr. Seuss
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Danny Brown is busy at work on the follow up to 2013′s Old, but that’s not all he has planned. In an interview with Australian radio station Triple J (as pointed out by FACT), which you can listen to above, Brown said he’s working on a children’s book inspired by Dr. Seuss and his 13-year old daughter.
“It’s been taking me forever to finish. It’s really about self-esteem in black girls, I guess,” he said. “You know how black women do so much—process their hair, change their eye color—it’s really about a little girl who does all these things to herself and changes herself and she realizes she’s just better off the way she is.”
He added: “It’s something for my daughter… I want it to be real Dr. Seuss-y… The Grinch, Green Eggs and Ham, and One Fish, Two Fish—what was going on in that guy’s brain to be able to write those things?” (One imagines a Brown-styled take on these classics; perhaps One Dip, Two Dip, I Dip, You Dip?)
Brown also told Triple J he’s been recording with regular collaborators Paul White and SKYWLKR, and that he recently worked with the Alchemist in Los Angeles for a week. He also purchased a house in rural Michigan with its own studio. And he’s signed with an agency for voiceover work.
Read “Top Underdog”, our feature from last year on Brown.
Watch Brown on an episode of Pitchfork.tv’s “Over/Under”:
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