In some sense, they want everybody from the city to move to the outskirts and suburbs so they can take over-not saying white people or black people, just rich people. Action Bronson, Earl Sweatshirt announce NBA Leather Tour. You can see neighborhoods now that were straight crackhead central, and now it’s hipsters building gardens. What’s going to happen to the city? They trying to stress us out so much to make us leave, so they can take over. It’s not grown men, because we’ve been through cases already, we scared to do shit, we don’t want to go back to jail. Because that’s who’s out here shooting people, that’s who’s breaking into your house, that’s who out here robbing. I would’ve been concerned with fixing schools and community centers and things for kids to do with they time.
Had you been in charge of Detroit, what would you have done differently? I would’ve been more concerned with youth shit, because that’s where the future is. You ride around and see how fucked up it is. A new football stadium, new baseball shit, but economically it declined. But now I’m a grown ass man and it’s worser. We always thought things would get better. They was about to do this, to build some new shit.
For the entire time that I’ve been living-born and raised here-we always had some hope that shit was about to change. What do you think about the bankruptcy? At the end of the day, it’s probably something that should’ve been done 10 years ago.
Read below and scroll down for the full run of dates we have so far–and don’t forget to bring your tactical helmet and a couple full metal jackets. Danny had some pretty interesting shit to say about the shadows currently falling across Motown when FADER mag put him on the spot recently. Could be they just haven’t locked down all the dates yet or could be that Detroit is not the best market for doing shows right now, what with being officially bankrupt and whatnot. Despite a quick stop in Grand Rapids to bless the Chicagoland side of Michigan, Brown’s hometown of Detroit is conspicuously absent from the itinerary. Canadian border for shows ranging from Philly to Quebec. Yesterday Detroit player Danny Brown announced dates for his ‘2 High 2 Die’ tour with Queens’ own Action Bronson AKA the rap game’s Richard Pryor & Gene Wilder (though based off that tour name, they are aiming for something closer to the hipster generation’s Meth & Red) who will be jointly dipping and diving back and forth across the U.S.