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" Danny Brown&amp;#039;s not your average rap star. A Detroit native with a record store clerk&amp;#039;s obsession with weird electronic music scenes and obscure avant-rock albums, he&amp;#039;s got a flow that defies most conventional hip-hop rules, a voice like a Hanna-Barbera cartoon character, and a way of dressing that looks something like a street crazy on an Adderall binge raided an edgy underground designer&amp;#039;s warehouse. Which isn&amp;#039;t too far from the actual truth. We&amp;#039;re still waiting on the release of his next full-length, Old, which will come out out on Fool&amp;#039;s Gold &amp;quot;whenever I get these samples all cleared.&amp;quot; But in the meantime, we sat down to talk to him about his sui generis fashion sense. Esquire.com: You&amp;#039;ve got a very unique style that it seems like people either love or hate. Where&amp;#039;s that come from? Danny Brown: In terms of fashion I think the biggest influence that I had was my father. My pops, he was really into men&amp;#039;s fashion and read all of the magazines. He was half Filipino \u2014 my grandma&amp;#039;s Filipino \u2014 so he grew up in a different household than the normal guy in the hood, but he was in the hood every day. So he just had a different outlook on shit. He listened to house music and a lot of shit. He had me when he was 16 so he was still young, so he was still up on the same shit I was up on when I was in middle school. He bought me my first Wu-Tang CD. With the fashion, it went hand in hand. I had Timberlands in the sixth grade. Every other kid had steel-toed boots like Jodeci, and I wanted those boots but he bought me these plain-ass brown boring Timberlands. But nobody knew what Timberlands were so all of these other kids would crack on me. By eighth grade, everyone in school had Timberlands, so from that point on the school looked at me like I was the total cool guy. And it went like that kind of my whole life. Being on the cutting edge of a trend \u2014 knowing it&amp;#039;s about to happen and doing it before it happens. ESQ: It&amp;#039;s good to challenge yourself. DB: Yeah. Now as I&amp;#039;ve grown up into myself, I think that women influence me. I dress for a certain type of girl that I like. Women dress for us, they dress to attract us, so we should at least show that gratitude to them, you know what I&amp;#039;m saying? A lot of girls might see me and hate how I dress but there are a lot of women who see me and love it, and those are the girls that I like. So I&amp;#039;m pulling them in. I&amp;#039;m like a peacock, you know what I&amp;#039;m saying? I gotta flash the feathers to get where I want to go!  Another shot from the McNairy SS13 look book  ESQ: I know you&amp;#039;ve rocked a lot of Jeremy Scott. Who else are you into that people might not expect? DB: I think Mark McNairy and Cassette Playa are my two favorite designers right now. They&amp;#039;re my friends too. Cassette Playa, I remember when she was doing stuff with M.I.A. and I liked what she was doing. So to know her, just to be friends with her? That&amp;#039;s big for me. I really love her shit. The shit she was doing three years ago is what everybody&amp;#039;s jocking now, so she&amp;#039;s kinda getting her props. McNairy, too. For McNairy to reach out to me... To be honest, I didn&amp;#039;t know him before that. Now he&amp;#039;s growing me up. It&amp;#039;s like McNairy opened the door to another fashion world, just being with him. I done a few look books before I did his \u2014 a lot of streetwear brands. And they do stuff different. They had all their shit together where they had boards and they knew the looks they wanted to do. But when I went to McNairy he didn&amp;#039;t have none of that shit. He just had clothes and he&amp;#039;d just look at me and freestyle an outfit right there. And every time I put it on I was like, &amp;quot;This is fucking amazing!&amp;quot; I couldn&amp;#039;t put that shit together. I just want to be able to have the mind that he has when it comes to dressing. ESQ: When you get dressed now, do you have an idea of what you&amp;#039;re going for? Or do you just put things together? DB: I think about it a lot, but I never go with what I thought about. It&amp;#039;s always a last-minute thing. I was breaking my brain with a Coachella outfit for weeks, but as much as I do that I always want to come out of the house and make it look like I didn&amp;#039;t give a damn about it. ESQ: But you do push things. A year ago even, people were like, &amp;quot;What&amp;#039;s up with Danny Brown and his tight jeans?&amp;quot; DB: And now everybody wears tight jeans. But mine cost a thousand dollars. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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