Inspired by Daughter, Rapper Danny Brown Writing Children’s Book
According to Pitchfork, Danny Brown has a children’s book in the works. Inspired by his 13-year-old daughter, Brown is writing on black girls and self-esteem.
“It’s been taking me forever to finish. It’s really about self-esteem in black girls, I guess. 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. 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?”
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