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Danny Brown Believes Dave Chappelle Doesn’t Like Him Anymore

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Danny Brown is unquestionably one of the funniest rappers around, so it’s curious to hear how he’s butted heads with other comics. In fact, to hear that Dave Chappelle apparently doesn’t like him is one of the most surprising but simultaneously hilarious “beefs” to come up recently, although it’s not that serious at all. Apparently, this stems from when the rapper gave the comedian a joint before his stand-up set. Chappelle got too high, bombed, and apparently Danny refused to answer his calls, which he denied was the case. In fact, the Detroit MC even said “F**k your feelings, n***a” on his podcast and even referenced this on his new album, Quaranta.

“Smoke with Dave Chappelle, the n***a think I laced him,” Danny Brown rapped on “Dark Sword Angel.” “Knew it was the pack, he started talking about spaceships.” During a recent conversation with HipHopDX, he looked back on this and clarified that there’s no real tension or animosity here. “I think he don’t like me no more,” the 42-year-old chuckled. “I would love to [talk to him again] though. I just respect him so much, you know, and it just taught me a lot. Made me respect stand-up comedy a lot more, I will say that.”

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Elsewhere during this talk, Danny Brown also spoke on his relationship to stand-up comedy as a whole. “I can just be funny and talk s**t, but to actually write good jokes and s**t, I still don’t get it,” he reflected. “My favorite stand-up comedians was always the ones that, you know, you could laugh at and they had jokes, but they always leave you with that little gem. It’s kind of like you’re learning something, too. I want to be that good, and that takes some time. But, you know, with comedy you can be 80 years old and still be on stage cracking jokes. So I still got time.

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“I had all the say [in his VICE TV show Danny’s House‘s content],” he added. “But I just was so nervous at the time, so I didn’t really take that much advantage of it. They wanted me always to improv and go off-script, but I would always just stick [to my script] ’cause I was just so nervous doing it, man, you know? It’s a different time, man. Now, I’d be cr*zy.” For more news and the latest updates on Danny Brown, keep checking in with HNHH.

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Mo’Nique Recalls Hiding Her Bisexuality From Her Family Out Of Fear In New Standup Special: Watch

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Though she spent several years out of the spotlight after being cancelled among some of Hollywood’s most elite, Mo’Nique is back in a big way. Her most recent work comes in the form of a Netflix comedy special called My Name Is Mo’Nique, in which she chiefly comes out as a bisexual woman. According to the Precious actress, she spent many of her younger years ashamed of the fantasies she had and even avoided speaking to her family about such thoughts out of fear. Her grandmother, MiMi, apparently “could not come to grips that she had a gay daughter” of her own, causing “confusion” for the young girl at the time.

“And I felt cowardly when my grandmother left because I couldn’t tell my grandmother who her granddaughter really was,” the 55-year-old told the audience while breaking down in tears. “I adored how she adored me,” Mo’Nique added, recalling fond memories of MiMi’s affectionate nature. “I couldn’t tell my grandmother my secret thoughts and my fantasies ’cause I… Did not want her to leave this earth thinking she was a failure. Because had I told her my secret thoughts, she would have left thinking she had failed,” she later said.

Comedian Gets Vulnerable During My Name Is Mo’Nique Special

In a shocking revelation, Mo’Nique then admitted her bisexuality to the audience, noting that she’s “not all the way” lesbian. The Maryland native noted that she was never able to admit her truth to MiMi, as she found it incredibly difficult to confess her desires “out loud.” The embattled entertained continued, “Do you know how hard it is to keep a secret? Secrets cause cancer. When you’re born with that, there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it. Nothing. And please understand I tried.”

During her Netflix special, she recalled sleeping with “as many men as she could” to avoid any speculation of “something [being] wrong” with her. “I promised that I would never tell anyone, that I would take that to my grave. Because I saw how they treated the people in my family with that ‘disease.’ Because they made us believe it was a ‘disease,’ right?” Thankfully, Mo’Nique eventually found a confidant in her husband, Sidney Hicks. “‘I want to be with another woman sexually,’” she reportedly told him. “He looked at me so beautifully and so patient and so loving and said, ‘Bitch, me too,’” the starlet quipped. Check out the show’s full trailer below, and tap back in later for more pop culture news updates.

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