Danny Brown enters his sober era, with wild ‘Stardust’ still intact

Rapper Danny Brown marks a new chapter in his life and art when he brings his Stardust tour to San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom on Tue/25. For an artist who has spent more than a decade redefining the edges of independent rap, this moment marks a meaningful shift: a veteran of the blog-era now entering his sober era, finding reinvention not through nostalgia but through experimentation.

Brown’s story begins far from the Bay, but its contours mirror the type of creative resilience San Francisco audiences understand well. Born in Detroit to teenage parents, he grew up surrounded by rhyme and rhythm. His mother read him Dr. Seuss books until he spoke, and once he did, he spoke in rhyme. His father, a house music DJ, tuned the household to a steady pulse of electronic sound. By kindergarten,