
Sometimes your mission finds you. For Daniel Sewell, a Black-Filipino kid from Linwood, Detroit, his career was never a choice. Danny never learned how to rap, words came together in his head even at elementary school age. Borrowing the name of his favorite Reservoir Dogs character, Danny Brown found joy ripping into the twisted corners of the genre, both solo and with his crew Reser' Vor Dogs (since re-christened "Bruiser Brigade.") The problem was that few outside the city paid him much mind, save for a brief dalliance with a Roc-A-Fella Records A&R. [...]