Quaranta #otw

rollingstone.com/music/music-features/danny-brown-drugs-rehab-new-album-1234800909/amp

Danny Brown sits quietly at a hotel restaurant table in Manhattan’s West Village, staring off into the distance with a stoic expression. The outdoor seating area is absent of any other guests besides the rapper and his manager, but he’d stand out even in a crowded room: Today he has on a vibrant look that includes a blue-gradient collared shirt, an extremely baggy pair of jeans, and the bright red, Astro Boy-esque MSCHF boots that had the internet in a chokehold earlier this year. When a waiter comes by to take any beverage orders, Brown immediately asks him to take away the alcohol menu. “I’m in a good space mentally,” he says afterward. “I’m happy and stuff. I just don’t want to be around that right now.”

Brown sees his seventh studio album, Quaranta, due out this fall, as a chance for closure. It’s his most personal album by far, a confessional spurred by pain, isolation, and hitting rock bottom. Compared with his past works, he sounds more serious and focused, taking aim at his own shortcomings along with mediocre rappers. “It was almost like, ‘I got to get it out,’” he says. “I didn’t know how long I was going to be living. It was one of those ‘I’m going to say what the f*** I want to say on this s***. I’m going to let everybody know how I’m feeling.’”

Danny Brown staring off into the distance with a stoic expression

Somebody generate an ai image of this

Is this pasta

Read the link you poltroon

My man said poltroon

14g a DAY is just f***ing insane tolerance or not. I’m so glad he’s in a better place and his perspective is way better, the whole article is def worth the read

“As recently as last summer, he claims, he was taking up to 14 grams of psilocybin mushrooms each day. “I think that really f***ed my brain up,” he says. “Because I can lay down and get ready to go to bed, and I can see visuals and s***. A person that never took mushrooms before, they’d be freaked out by the s*** I see when I close my eyes.” These days, he’s sleeping eight to 10 hours a night. “I guess I’m catching up for all the sleep that I wasn’t getting when I was d***ging. And I’m having vivid, movie dreams.”

Judging by this interview, dude is down bad in a cudi type space where he’s trying to front like he’s doing better.

If you need a drink menu taken away you’re not ok (although this was probably just done for dramatic effect on the interview, still)

he did seem ZOOTED on some of them podcast episodes slurring real bad. stay away from yakubs nectar

!dream Danny Brown staring off into the distance with a stoic expression

@Googootz

I don't even get how he was feeling anything off of them because to the best of my knowledge shroom tolerance can build up really quick

I remember taking about 14g once and then an eighth a few days later and feeling nothing but a stomach ache on the eighth

bro you took 14gs???

Yeah, got a zip with three friends

Everyone else took their portion and threw me the rest assuming it was a fourth

Weighed out a fourth at homie's place and realized there was basically another fourth in there

I don't know what it is but psychs and a lot of substances don't affect me that much

My go to reasoning is that I've been through a lot of dangerous and difficult situations that leave me very grounded, if that makes sense

But yeah I was cooling off the fourth so I ate the rest and honestly it's some of the most 'normal' I've ever felt

Was seeing a lot of the same things my imagination shows me regularly except with the shrooms I was able to shed a lot of my survival chains and just be with my visions and dreams

Walked to my homie's place and when I passed some cops instead of flashing back to when police have endangered my life like I usually do I was awash in a million man march full of revolutionary spirit

Was definitely laughing a lot throughout the day and at some point when I really wanted to smoke I got stuck on how good ground up weed felt between my index and thumb but for the most part I was basically all there

Loved it

Shrooms got me feeling childlike, that same high you get when you first smoke weed i love them

Crazy what it can shed or unlock from you

Ive never gone above 6g tho maybe i should give it a try

You're not wrong but I've never thought of shrooms as bringing on childlike wonder, I'll think on that after the next time I do them

If you think you can handle a higher dose and it would be useful/enjoyable sure but you know best on that front

I don't want to recklessly encourage anyone to do a massive amount of something that could potentially be very damaging