Detroit rapper Danny Brown caused a stir while on tour in Australia yesterday (May 1) after his refusal to credit a photographer’s image of him turned into him getting ready to catch the fade with a guy who called him out for it, Music Feeds reports.
It all started when photographer Michelle Grace Hunder shared a shot of Brown on Twitter — the cover image of this story — that she’d taken at his Melbourne gig. The rapper posted it to his 259,000 followers on Instagram, only without a photo credit. Lauren Ziegler, the editor of the Howl & Echoes site Hunder was shooting for, sent Brown a quick DM asking if he could credit the photographer.
Instead, he accused her of being “butt hurt” and deleted the image from his feed.
Subsequently, she is no longer a fan.
Here’s the conversation, shared on Twitter by Nic Kelly, another Australian media/music guy.
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Later, Danny ranted some more about the issue on Twitter, even getting some support from U.K. grime artist Skepta.
Kelly called him out again and Brown responded, with things escalating between the two to the point that Brown was giving out his hotel address and lacing up his figurative gloves for a fade with the 20-year-old. Brown’s side of the beef has already been deleted from his Twitter account, but Kelly shared the screenshots on his own feed.
In the end, there seem to be two lessons here:
1) Artists, credit your photographers, and 2) Danny Brown don’t give a fuuuuuuuuuuck.
