What's Next For Rap? w/ Your Old Droog | The Danny Brown Show

The Danny Brown Show

YMH Studios

Society & Culture, Comedy, Music, Music Commentary, Comedy Interviews, Relationships

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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SPONSORS: https://capl.onelink.me/vFut/uu6cof5i #CashAppPod As a Cash App partner, I may earn a commission when you sign up for a Cash App account. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. Head to https://acorns.com/DANNYB or download the Acorns app to get started. Danny Brown is joined by Brooklyn’s own Your Old Droog for a raw and hilarious deep dive into hip-hop, creativity, and the culture. From linking up with the legendary Madlib, to the kind of pressure that forges timeless music, Danny and Droog swap stories and drop gems every rap fan will appreciate. They also break down MF DOOM’s genius marketing, show love to the next generation of rappers, and, of course, take a few wild Danny detours — including why Germans might just be a little scary. 📌 In this episode:Cooking with MadlibWhy pressure breeds classicsGiving props to the young generationMF DOOM’s marketing wizardryWhat’s next for rap Have a question for Danny? Hit us up at danny@thedannybrownshow.com The Danny Brown Show Ep. 171 https://xdannyxbrownx.com https://store.ymhstudios.com Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:07 - Working With Madlib 00:04:33 - Stop Thinking Like That 00:08:11 - Your Ears Aren't Ready 00:09:27 - Pressure Breeds Creativity 00:12:00 - What's Next For Rap 00:14:18 - MFDoom's Marketing 00:17:16 - Ask Danny 00:23:02 - Performance Artists 00:24:10 - Deep Dive 00:27:00 - Capturing Everything 00:28:01 - This Year For HipHop 00:29:38 - FMK 00:32:15 - SPIN THE WHEEL Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This October, a remarkable true story comes to the big screen. I have Tourette syndrome, and it makes me tick. In the film, critics are calling powerful and life-affirming. The problem is that people don't know enough about Tourette's. I can sit here, but I can help this lad. Laugh out loud, funny and uplifting. That young man would not harm a fly, and he makes a damn fine cup of tea With a brilliant lead performance
0:22.1	It's unmissable
0:23.1	Starring Robert Arameo
0:24.9	Maxine P, Peter Mullen
0:26.4	And Shirley Henderson
0:27.6	I swear in Cinemas October 10
0:29.9	It's the Danny Brown show
0:32.3	Sit back, relax you already now
0:34.1	Why you're making studios
0:35.3	It's the Danny Brown show
0:37.3	We're about to get live Let's goait Studios. It's the Danny Brown show. We're about to get live. Let's go. It's the Danny Brown show. Sit back. Relax. I already now. Why you're made studios? It's the Danny Brown show. We're about to get live. Let's go. Yo, yo. What's up? Do. It's the Danny Brown show coming to y'all from Yameh Studios here in beautiful Austin, Texas.
0:59.8	Almost had a brain fart.
1:01.5	I mean, I think it's this coffee or something, man.
1:04.2	I'm really running low on fumes.
1:07.0	I woke up.
1:07.7	It wasn't the fact that I woke up too early.
1:27.6	I did the dumbest shit you can do as a 40 year old man. And that would be I was laying in my bed and I was on my way to sleep because you know me. I'm old. I go to bed at 9 p.m. But it wasn't working out. And sometimes I have to tell myself that I need to stop putting this pressure on myself to go to bed at 9 p.m. to wake up at 5 a.m. because sometimes it just doesn't work out like that. But while I was
1:33.5	laying in bed, I remembered that I had a bag of smart pop flaming hot Cheetos popcorn. And I thought to myself,
1:41.0	wouldn't it be great if I just got out of bed and ate half this bag to myself in the dark in the kitchen where no one notices?
1:50.4	So yeah, I did that scarfed down, drank like three Coke Zeros because my mouth was on fire.
1:55.3	Woke up this morning with my stomach playing a Rack City beat.
2:00.4	So yeah, it woke me up way too early so I didn't get as enough sleep as I was like. So now I'm, yeah, so now I'm drinking coffee. But shout out to y'all. Shouts out to my non-binaryans in the booth. Hey, man, why I got to be plural this time, bro? What the fuck? You know, you can be like a Sheneid O'Connor type.
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