After a successful first run, Danny Brown will perform in his hometown Detroit as part of his Bruiser Brigade Thanksgiving Show and Pledge Drive on November 25 at Detroit's Majestic Theater.
In a philanthropic and socially conscious move, apropos to the career and music of Danny Brown, the artist has partnered up with InsideOut, Detroit's City Wide Poets Project (CWP) and has committed his time and money to assisting the troubled Detroit Public School Systems. Brown plans to lead city-wide poetry workshop for teens and young adults. According to XXL, the trailer for Bruiser Thanksgiving 2, the show and weekend, has been released.
Thanksgiving is an important holiday in Hip-Hop, as it gives rappers a chance to give back to the often impoverished communities from whence they came. The holiday has inspired turkey-giveaways and charities throughout the nation, supporting the growth and community-action necessary to help lift many of these cities out of poverty.
As Brown states, Donations for the pledge drive can be made on InsideOut page through November 12th.
News of the benefit comes ahead of a forthcoming Danny Brown effort, his last since 2013's triumphant Old, on which the 34-year-old rapper reminisces about his childhood in Detroit, the struggles he and his family had to endure, the difficult road to pain and the crippling self-doubt and loneliness of an artist. The album was incredibly well received, and propelled Brown to the top of critic lists and festival headlines.
Brown has also told fans he is writing a children's book that has taken "forever" to complete. Says the rapper, "It's really about self-esteem in black girls," he explain. "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."
