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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Danny Brown Got PUNCHED For Liking Michael Jackson' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-01-04. Transcript available.

- When you say you're getting interested in
like breakcore, you called it?
- Yeah.
- What, just describe what that is for you.
- Breakcore, I mean, digicore, breakcore.
It's just more like, like--
- Is it like Dance Dance Revolution?
That's what it sounds like to me.
- I would say it's kind of like a cousin
of like drum and bass and jungle.
- So it sounds British, right?
- Yeah, I mean, yeah.
It definitely influenced,
definitely a lot of samples from that.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- It's music that like on a rainy day,
you drive like a VW Golf, like a GTI.
- I just walk in the rain.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- That's beautiful.
- Yeah, you just walk in the rain with--
- Do you conceive of like, when you finish the song,
have you ever, do you ever conceive of like,
I've written the, that's a perfect song?
Or do you like--
- I never say perfect song,
'cause I always want to get better.
I feel like with music is never, you never,
you know, like even Bowie did it till he was gone.
You know, so it's like, you get,
and it's one of the eldest albums he made.
- Is he your goat?
- Black Star?
- Yeah.
- It's so good.
- That's what I'm saying, so like--
- I could only listen to it twice,
because I was too sad.
- Yeah, I ain't about to go back.
- I was too sad.
- I'm not running Black Star back.
- He's your number one?
He's one of your number ones?
- I mean, definitely a huge inspiration,
but I would say I wasn't around for that time
to where I'd seen the impact,
but just reading, you know, studying, doing the history,
I definitely could get some inspiration from there.
I would say Prince, too, kind of like that.
- Yeah, Midwest.
- Mm-hmm.
- Did you ever meet him?
- No, I wish.
- I wish too.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, he would be so mean to me.
- That same thing I was literally thinking in my head,
like he probably like, what the fuck.
- Can you imagine how mean he would be?
- I mean, but I wouldn't have it no other way.
- The artist, I'm so excited to meet him.
- I mean, I wouldn't be disappointed by that.
That's what I would say.
You know how they like never meet your idols type shit?
I would just like expect that from him.
- He was mean to his friends.
- If it was nice to me, I'd be like, oh shit.
- He hated Michael and Michael, like,
just was completely unfazed by it.
That rivalry was the funniest rivalry in the world.
- I can't pick between them two.
- I was Michael growing up.
- Of course I was too, but once I got old enough,
I realized the genius of Prince.
- When Michael did the dick grab thing,
when I was a little kid, I would see it on TV
and I started doing it and then I would get in so much trouble.
- Mike me up, man.
I got my ass whooped fucking with Mike.
- Really?
It was not cool to like Mike?
- I mean that bad video came out and you remember
he was in the subway, being bad and shit.
- And those are real bad guys in the video.
He got real bad boys.
- I know, I was getting bullied on the playground
and I thought, you know.
- You thought your butt is mine?
You were trying to do your butt is mine?
- I know, I just thought do what Michael do
and get up out of this, you know what I'm saying?
So I hit the oh and got punched right in the mouth.
- You thought that was real fighting?
- I was the music in my life, you know?
It was always a part of me.
- You thought that was how a person fights?
- I didn't know, but yeah, I did try to break out
a bad routine before the scrap and got my ass whooped.
- Imagine if it worked.
- So embarrassing, I'm glad we moved.
- Dude, you have to move schools.
You have to move schools out there.
- Yeah, I think you're right.
But yeah, I got my ass whooped.
- I mean that is something.
- I didn't even realize you can punch people
in the mouth to then.
Like damn, this nigga just, I just saw that shit on TV.
- It was like second grade?
- And it sounded the same.
No, this was kindergarten.
- Kindergarten.
- Oh, that follows you to 12th grade.
- Oh, shit.
- Oh yeah, you got, because it had to have been so funny.
- Or no, it maybe it was first grade.
- You would be like this?
- It maybe it was first, 'cause I remember, yeah,
'cause we moved mid-semester type shit,
so it was first grade.
- You had the nicest parents in the world.
- No, they were already planning to move.
- Getting out of dodge when you embarrassed.
- They were already planning to move.
It just lined up right.
But yeah, I got punched in the fucking face.
- Did you have to learn how to fight?
- I don't think I ever did.
- I don't think I ever did either.
I just realized, just punch 'em in the mouth first.
- You have to go first.
- Yeah, that's all I ever did.
Even if you get your ass whooped after,
everybody gonna remember, you filed on 'em first.
So yeah, I just took that motto.
Anytime I felt threatened,
I would just punch a nigga in the mouth.
- Did it like, sometimes it didn't work hard enough?
- I mean, I don't think, I never,
I never knocked nobody out, so.
- I guess like, moving forward,
what are some goals that keep you going as an artist?
- I mean, I felt like, you know, music is something,
like I said, you can never,
it's a never ending quest to get better at it.
And now I understand more so like,
it's a legacy thing.
Like maybe fucking 30 years after I'm dead,
some kid is sampling my records
and making hit songs out of them or whatever the fuck.
So right now I'm just making music for my legacy now.
- Do you listen to early records
and you think like, oh, that, like I'm better now?
- Hell yeah.
- Yeah.
- Hell yeah.
- But it was a different way of going about
making songs at that time.
- Yeah, how did Nas do that at 17 then?
It's so weird.
- Just born with it, man.
But then, you know,
I feel like him having a jazz musician father.
- Yeah.
- And you know, like your parents
are having record collections in the house
and they really into music,
like that shit definitely plays a huge part.
- Yeah.
- But yeah, I like that.
Like doing the history of music,
you know, like going back and like,
just really like figuring out records
that stand the test of time.
And maybe one day I'll have a record like that
where people are still talking about like 30 years later.
- So they said the top five rappers,
what's, what is your five of that?
- Of, I mean, I have my,
I mean, I feel like five of my favorite rapper,
records may not still the test of time
versus records that I know stood the test of time.
- Yeah.
- You know?
- Well, so what would some of those be?
- Records that I think stand in touch,
like even shit, just look at something like a,
Marvin Gaye, what's going on?
Shit, look what the fuck going on right now.
You get what I'm saying, records like that.
- Sometimes when I listen to Future,
I think that actually.
- Oh no, definitely.
- Or like when I listen to like,
- Future like blues.
- Well, when I listen to like March Madness,
he's like, even like, he's like in a club, right?
And he's like on so many drugs, right?
And his head can't like keep track.
It's like he keeps changing tracks.
And he's like, he's like,
damn the cops are killing people.
Should I fuck this girl even if she's ugly?
- You know, and he's just, but he's like also like,
like I'm maybe too fucked up right now
and I'm super famous, but I still feel all alone.
- Yeah, Future is like.
- It's just kind of, it is a very alienating time.
- It's like, cut that, please, all of that.
That is sucks.
- No, I understand what you're saying,
'cause Future is kind of like blues music
for toxic niggas that owe child support.
- It's true.
- You know, it gaslighted,
it's like gaslighting for them, you know what I'm saying?
- But don't you buy it when he's like,
"I cheated on you, but I'm so sad."
You're like, "Damn, he's having a tough time."
It really, I buy it.
- I understand it.
- I'm like, wow, yeah, he really has a lot going on.
- Sounds like a struggle with discipline.
- Yeah, yeah.
Well, rap used to be like, when we were a kid,
I mean, you're a little bit older than me,
but when I was a kid, it was about like,
I had nothing, and now I made a lot of money,
and now I'm celebrating it, right?
And now it's kind of like, I have,
I got to the top, but I don't trust anyone around me.
- Drake started that.
I don't know, I think, I mean,
one thing I feel like hip-hop has always been rooted in,
and its tradition has always been originality,
so I like just hearing different stories,
and I like hearing regional rap where you can like,
you've never been there before,
but you can close your eyes and hear 'em describe it,
and you'll be like, "Ah, that's what's going on
"in the Magnolia Projects in New Orleans," you know?
Like listen to Illmatic, like, "That's Queensbridge,"
you know?
So that's what I loved about rap.
Oh, even when I listened to Dizzy Rascal,
I'm like, "That's London, Betting the Greens,"
you know what I'm saying?
So yeah, "Take me to your hood,"
that's what I like, I wanna know what's going on.
- It's going localized, yeah.
- It's like news, it's like our ghetto news,
but it ain't like that no more,
'cause the internet, everybody merged in,
so everybody make the same sounds now,
you know, it's just some regional shit everywhere, but--
- You think it's fucked up that a kid could listen to like,
like Spotify, you can listen to any song ever?
- No, I think that's actually great, to be honest,
'cause I know a lot of kids--
- Well, 'cause the husband got a CD
and we listened for two months.
- I think that is great 'cause a lot of kids do,
could go back and do their research and do homework.
I really do think that's the great part about it,
but I don't know if anybody really does.
- I wonder if they can get as deep, though.
- I know some, I mean, kids that are into music,
they getting deep.
I can't say, like, kids that I've known,
but they all making music, though, so.
They do, and some kids right now have more knowledge
about old school shit than me,
and I'll be like, "What the fuck?"
- Yeah, for me, it's just like, I think that like,
when I, I would go to the mall, I get one CD,
and it'd be a month, and I would just like,
I think that I needed that time to like,
just listen over and over and over again,
to really get something, but these kids,
I feel like you could just keep changing
to like, different things, and it's like,
I wonder if they could like, really just absorb it.
Like, I remember me and my cousin got dark side of the moon,
and we were like, 11, and we turned off all the lights,
and we pretended to be high.
- No.
- We like, imagine like, one day we're gonna be high,
and it worked, and it's sick, dude.
- Yeah, I mean, I've done it before.
I think everybody needs one acid trip,
dark side of the moon.
- Oh, you've done it to dark side of the moon?
- Yeah, I've done it.
- Unreal record.
- I mean, it made me appreciate it a lot more.
- Really? - Yeah.
- I like it, regular south.
- I didn't, I can't say it.
I mean, yeah, it's definitely a different experience.
- I love the Floyd, dude.
- What's your favorite song on dark side of the moon?
- The first one.
- The time?
- No, no, time isn't the first one.
- I definitely don't know the tracks.
- Fing it away, the moment, no, that's time.
No, no, the first track is, uh.
- Yeah.
- What is it?
- Breathe.
- Breathe?
How does it, what is it?
- The way that shit start.
- Keep going, Zach.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, that shit.
- That's the hardest shit.
- That's so sick.
Best band ever, dude.
- Do you remember that song?
I don't wanna know.
- Yeah.
- If you're playing me, keep that on the low.
- You know what song, uh-uh.
- That guy's like getting, this is the cuck anthem, bro.
- Yeah, that is correct.
If you listen to a lot of those songs
and you just think about it, like, you'd be like,
man, they trippin'.
I remember that one Backstreet song
where they just singin' about
gettin' a boner on the dance floor.
- Which is that called?
- Like, when we always grindin'.
- I get so excited.
- Ooh, how I like it.
- It's all about gettin' a boner.
- But I can't fight it.
- It's dancing real, so at the Bar Misfits,
I went crazy. - You makin' it hard for me.
- They just singin' about boners.

Danny Brown Got PUNCHED For Liking Michael Jackson

- When you say you're getting interested in
like breakcore, you called it?
- Yeah.
- What, just describe what that is for you.
- Breakcore, I mean, digicore, breakcore.
It's just more like, like--
- Is it like Dance Dance Revolution?
That's what it sounds like to me.
- I would say it's kind of like a cousin
of like drum and bass and jungle.
- So it sounds British, right?
- Yeah, I mean, yeah.
It definitely influenced,
definitely a lot of samples from that.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- It's music that like on a rainy day,
you drive like a VW Golf, like a GTI.
- I just walk in the rain.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- That's beautiful.
- Yeah, you just walk in the rain with--
- Do you conceive of like, when you finish the song,
have you ever, do you ever conceive of like,
I've written the, that's a perfect song?
Or do you like--
- I never say perfect song,
'cause I always want to get better.
I feel like with music is never, you never,
you know, like even Bowie did it till he was gone.
You know, so it's like, you get,
and it's one of the eldest albums he made.
- Is he your goat?
- Black Star?
- Yeah.
- It's so good.
- That's what I'm saying, so like--
- I could only listen to it twice,
because I was too sad.
- Yeah, I ain't about to go back.
- I was too sad.
- I'm not running Black Star back.
- He's your number one?
He's one of your number ones?
- I mean, definitely a huge inspiration,
but I would say I wasn't around for that time
to where I'd seen the impact,
but just reading, you know, studying, doing the history,
I definitely could get some inspiration from there.
I would say Prince, too, kind of like that.
- Yeah, Midwest.
- Mm-hmm.
- Did you ever meet him?
- No, I wish.
- I wish too.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, he would be so mean to me.
- That same thing I was literally thinking in my head,
like he probably like, what the fuck.
- Can you imagine how mean he would be?
- I mean, but I wouldn't have it no other way.
- The artist, I'm so excited to meet him.
- I mean, I wouldn't be disappointed by that.
That's what I would say.
You know how they like never meet your idols type shit?
I would just like expect that from him.
- He was mean to his friends.
- If it was nice to me, I'd be like, oh shit.
- He hated Michael and Michael, like,
just was completely unfazed by it.
That rivalry was the funniest rivalry in the world.
- I can't pick between them two.
- I was Michael growing up.
- Of course I was too, but once I got old enough,
I realized the genius of Prince.
- When Michael did the dick grab thing,
when I was a little kid, I would see it on TV
and I started doing it and then I would get in so much trouble.
- Mike me up, man.
I got my ass whooped fucking with Mike.
- Really?
It was not cool to like Mike?
- I mean that bad video came out and you remember
he was in the subway, being bad and shit.
- And those are real bad guys in the video.
He got real bad boys.
- I know, I was getting bullied on the playground
and I thought, you know.
- You thought your butt is mine?
You were trying to do your butt is mine?
- I know, I just thought do what Michael do
and get up out of this, you know what I'm saying?
So I hit the oh and got punched right in the mouth.
- You thought that was real fighting?
- I was the music in my life, you know?
It was always a part of me.
- You thought that was how a person fights?
- I didn't know, but yeah, I did try to break out
a bad routine before the scrap and got my ass whooped.
- Imagine if it worked.
- So embarrassing, I'm glad we moved.
- Dude, you have to move schools.
You have to move schools out there.
- Yeah, I think you're right.
But yeah, I got my ass whooped.
- I mean that is something.
- I didn't even realize you can punch people
in the mouth to then.
Like damn, this nigga just, I just saw that shit on TV.
- It was like second grade?
- And it sounded the same.
No, this was kindergarten.
- Kindergarten.
- Oh, that follows you to 12th grade.
- Oh, shit.
- Oh yeah, you got, because it had to have been so funny.
- Or no, it maybe it was first grade.
- You would be like this?
- It maybe it was first, 'cause I remember, yeah,
'cause we moved mid-semester type shit,
so it was first grade.
- You had the nicest parents in the world.
- No, they were already planning to move.
- Getting out of dodge when you embarrassed.
- They were already planning to move.
It just lined up right.
But yeah, I got punched in the fucking face.
- Did you have to learn how to fight?
- I don't think I ever did.
- I don't think I ever did either.
I just realized, just punch 'em in the mouth first.
- You have to go first.
- Yeah, that's all I ever did.
Even if you get your ass whooped after,
everybody gonna remember, you filed on 'em first.
So yeah, I just took that motto.
Anytime I felt threatened,
I would just punch a nigga in the mouth.
- Did it like, sometimes it didn't work hard enough?
- I mean, I don't think, I never,
I never knocked nobody out, so.
- I guess like, moving forward,
what are some goals that keep you going as an artist?
- I mean, I felt like, you know, music is something,
like I said, you can never,
it's a never ending quest to get better at it.
And now I understand more so like,
it's a legacy thing.
Like maybe fucking 30 years after I'm dead,
some kid is sampling my records
and making hit songs out of them or whatever the fuck.
So right now I'm just making music for my legacy now.
- Do you listen to early records
and you think like, oh, that, like I'm better now?
- Hell yeah.
- Yeah.
- Hell yeah.
- But it was a different way of going about
making songs at that time.
- Yeah, how did Nas do that at 17 then?
It's so weird.
- Just born with it, man.
But then, you know,
I feel like him having a jazz musician father.
- Yeah.
- And you know, like your parents
are having record collections in the house
and they really into music,
like that shit definitely plays a huge part.
- Yeah.
- But yeah, I like that.
Like doing the history of music,
you know, like going back and like,
just really like figuring out records
that stand the test of time.
And maybe one day I'll have a record like that
where people are still talking about like 30 years later.
- So they said the top five rappers,
what's, what is your five of that?
- Of, I mean, I have my,
I mean, I feel like five of my favorite rapper,
records may not still the test of time
versus records that I know stood the test of time.
- Yeah.
- You know?
- Well, so what would some of those be?
- Records that I think stand in touch,
like even shit, just look at something like a,
Marvin Gaye, what's going on?
Shit, look what the fuck going on right now.
You get what I'm saying, records like that.
- Sometimes when I listen to Future,
I think that actually.
- Oh no, definitely.
- Or like when I listen to like,
- Future like blues.
- Well, when I listen to like March Madness,
he's like, even like, he's like in a club, right?
And he's like on so many drugs, right?
And his head can't like keep track.
It's like he keeps changing tracks.
And he's like, he's like,
damn the cops are killing people.
Should I fuck this girl even if she's ugly?
- You know, and he's just, but he's like also like,
like I'm maybe too fucked up right now
and I'm super famous, but I still feel all alone.
- Yeah, Future is like.
- It's just kind of, it is a very alienating time.
- It's like, cut that, please, all of that.
That is sucks.
- No, I understand what you're saying,
'cause Future is kind of like blues music
for toxic niggas that owe child support.
- It's true.
- You know, it gaslighted,
it's like gaslighting for them, you know what I'm saying?
- But don't you buy it when he's like,
"I cheated on you, but I'm so sad."
You're like, "Damn, he's having a tough time."
It really, I buy it.
- I understand it.
- I'm like, wow, yeah, he really has a lot going on.
- Sounds like a struggle with discipline.
- Yeah, yeah.
Well, rap used to be like, when we were a kid,
I mean, you're a little bit older than me,
but when I was a kid, it was about like,
I had nothing, and now I made a lot of money,
and now I'm celebrating it, right?
And now it's kind of like, I have,
I got to the top, but I don't trust anyone around me.
- Drake started that.
I don't know, I think, I mean,
one thing I feel like hip-hop has always been rooted in,
and its tradition has always been originality,
so I like just hearing different stories,
and I like hearing regional rap where you can like,
you've never been there before,
but you can close your eyes and hear 'em describe it,
and you'll be like, "Ah, that's what's going on
"in the Magnolia Projects in New Orleans," you know?
Like listen to Illmatic, like, "That's Queensbridge,"
you know?
So that's what I loved about rap.
Oh, even when I listened to Dizzy Rascal,
I'm like, "That's London, Betting the Greens,"
you know what I'm saying?
So yeah, "Take me to your hood,"
that's what I like, I wanna know what's going on.
- It's going localized, yeah.
- It's like news, it's like our ghetto news,
but it ain't like that no more,
'cause the internet, everybody merged in,
so everybody make the same sounds now,
you know, it's just some regional shit everywhere, but--
- You think it's fucked up that a kid could listen to like,
like Spotify, you can listen to any song ever?
- No, I think that's actually great, to be honest,
'cause I know a lot of kids--
- Well, 'cause the husband got a CD
and we listened for two months.
- I think that is great 'cause a lot of kids do,
could go back and do their research and do homework.
I really do think that's the great part about it,
but I don't know if anybody really does.
- I wonder if they can get as deep, though.
- I know some, I mean, kids that are into music,
they getting deep.
I can't say, like, kids that I've known,
but they all making music, though, so.
They do, and some kids right now have more knowledge
about old school shit than me,
and I'll be like, "What the fuck?"
- Yeah, for me, it's just like, I think that like,
when I, I would go to the mall, I get one CD,
and it'd be a month, and I would just like,
I think that I needed that time to like,
just listen over and over and over again,
to really get something, but these kids,
I feel like you could just keep changing
to like, different things, and it's like,
I wonder if they could like, really just absorb it.
Like, I remember me and my cousin got dark side of the moon,
and we were like, 11, and we turned off all the lights,
and we pretended to be high.
- No.
- We like, imagine like, one day we're gonna be high,
and it worked, and it's sick, dude.
- Yeah, I mean, I've done it before.
I think everybody needs one acid trip,
dark side of the moon.
- Oh, you've done it to dark side of the moon?
- Yeah, I've done it.
- Unreal record.
- I mean, it made me appreciate it a lot more.
- Really? - Yeah.
- I like it, regular south.
- I didn't, I can't say it.
I mean, yeah, it's definitely a different experience.
- I love the Floyd, dude.
- What's your favorite song on dark side of the moon?
- The first one.
- The time?
- No, no, time isn't the first one.
- I definitely don't know the tracks.
- Fing it away, the moment, no, that's time.
No, no, the first track is, uh.
- Yeah.
- What is it?
- Breathe.
- Breathe?
How does it, what is it?
- The way that shit start.
- Keep going, Zach.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, that shit.
- That's the hardest shit.
- That's so sick.
Best band ever, dude.
- Do you remember that song?
I don't wanna know.
- Yeah.
- If you're playing me, keep that on the low.
- You know what song, uh-uh.
- That guy's like getting, this is the cuck anthem, bro.
- Yeah, that is correct.
If you listen to a lot of those songs
and you just think about it, like, you'd be like,
man, they trippin'.
I remember that one Backstreet song
where they just singin' about
gettin' a boner on the dance floor.
- Which is that called?
- Like, when we always grindin'.
- I get so excited.
- Ooh, how I like it.
- It's all about gettin' a boner.
- But I can't fight it.
- It's dancing real, so at the Bar Misfits,
I went craz