Daniel Dewan Sewell (born March 16, 1981), better known as Danny Brown, is an American rapper, singer and songwriter from Detroit, Michigan.

He gained major recognition after the release of its follow-up, XXX (2011), which received critical acclaim and led him to be named "Artist of the Year" by Spin and the Metro Times.

She raised her three children and a host of others in the middle house; the one to the left she paid cash for in the '90s from her long time neighbor; and the one on the right was her parents' home that she inherited when they died."

"[11] Brown began his career in a hip hop group called Rese'vor Dogs, alongside fellow Detroit-based rappers Chips and Dopehead.

After a lack of success with Roc-A-Fella, Brown returned to Detroit and eventually linked up with Detroit-based producer Nick Speed.

[8][9] In 2010, Brown befriended fellow American rapper Tony Yayo of G-Unit, and they recorded their collaborative album Hawaiian Snow (2010).

It received numerous critical accolades, including being named the best hip hop album of the year by Spin.

Thankfully, Brown is also hilariously funny, an endlessly inventive rapper driven to cook up outrageous variations on standard rap boasts.

[21] XXX was also named the 6th-best album of 2011 by Passion of the Weiss, which called it "an uncomfortably honest self-portrait made even more remarkable by the fact that Danny Brown is alive to tell the story.

[24] On March 13, 2012, Brown released the visual treatment for the brandUn DeShay-produced track "Radio Song" from XXX.

[25] In 2012, Brown was featured on the cover of XXL as part of its annual "Top 10 Freshmen list" along with fellow then-up-and-coming rappers Hopsin, French Montana, MGK, Iggy Azalea and Roscoe Dash, among others.

[26] The Fader enlisted both Kendrick Lamar and Danny Brown to cover the front pages of its 2012 Spring Style issue.

[27] In a January 2012 interview, singer Jennifer Herrema revealed that Danny Brown would be featured on the second album by Australian electronic music group The Avalanches.

[39][40][41] In October 2012, Brown was featured on the soundtrack to the film The Man with the Iron Fists on a track titled "Tick, Tock," alongside fellow American rappers Raekwon, Joell Ortiz and Pusha T.[42] On October 24, 2012, Brown released the music video for a song titled "Witit," taken from the deluxe edition of XXX and his OD EP; later that day after Complex kept referring to his next album as Danny Johnson, Brown took to Twitter to reveal the correct tentative title to be ODB.

On February 14, Brown appeared alongside ASAP Rocky and Russell Brand, on Griffin's late-night talk show where they played a dice game called "Suck breast?

[49] On March 1, 2013, Brown and American record producer Baauer, announced their upcoming "Worst of Both Worlds" Tour.

The brief tour, which only hit the West Coast, made stops in Austin, Texas, Tucson, Arizona and San Francisco, California.

[54] On May 3, Brown announced through Twitter that Old would feature guest appearances from Freddie Gibbs, Schoolboy Q, Mr. MFN eXquire, Scrufizzer, ASAP Rocky, Ab-Soul, Charli XCX and Purity Ring.

[55] He also said the production on the album was handled by Paul White, Oh No, Rustie, Skywlkr, A-Trak, Darq E Freaker and Frank Dukes.

[57][58] On July 23, Brown was featured rapping alongside Insane Clown Posse in the music video for their song "When I'm Clownin'.

[63] In November 2013, Brown was featured in the interactive music video for American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's 1965 hit single "Like a Rolling Stone.

"[64][65][66][67] In January 2014, Brown guest starred in the Fox animated TV series Lucas Bros. Moving Co., voicing a character named Jumanji in the first-season episode "A/C Tundra."

[68][69][70] On January 22, 2014, Danny Brown made his network television debut with a special performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.

[71][72][73] In April 2014, Hot Soup, one of Brown's early mixtapes, was re-released as a double LP and 7-inch with 7 bonus tracks for Record Store Day.

[75][76] On July 10, 2014, Brown opened for Macklemore & Ryan Lewis in front of 37,500 people in Marlay Park, Dublin.

On July 11 and 12, Brown opened in front of 100,000 fans for Eminem's sold-out concert at Wembley Stadium in London.

[86][87][88] In August 2016, Brown appeared on The Eric Andre Show, alongside ASAP Rocky, Nocando, Open Mike Eagle, and Go Dreamer, in a segment titled "Rapper Warrior Ninja".

[91] In June 2019, Viceland announced that Brown would star in a talk show titled "Danny's House" produced by Derrick Beckles.

[100][101] The daughter of his high school girlfriend, he stepped in to raise her when the girl's biological father was convicted of murder before her birth.

[102] In a June 2022 interview, Brown alleged that Die Antwoord member Watkin Tudor Jones attempted to force Yolandi Visser on him, and further assaulted him while sat on his lap by forcibly kissing him on the neck at an afterparty in Paris, France.