Danny Brown, Tim Westwood - Statements on Giving Up Lean lyrics

Tim Westwood: Now, you've given up the syrup
Why is- the syrup down the sink why's that?

Danny Brown: I was getting too fat, man
I gained like fifteen pounds

Tim Westwood: For real?

Danny Brown: yeah
I like wearing Balmain jeans and Rick
Owens t-shirts you can't wear
Rick Owens looking pregnant
You know what I'm saying? You can't have the
Gucci Mane belly, man, to
Wear high-end fashion
You know what I'm saying? So one
Of 'em had to go

Tim Westwood: yeah, yeah, and
For real, I mean, gucci brought that
Little fucking belly into fashion, uh
Why he continued it, the -

Danny Brown: You know, that look cool when
You wear Coogi t-shirts and stuff
But once you start putting on -
Tim Westwood: Tight shit
Then you look like a skinny little fat guy

Danny Brown: yes and it's the worst

Tim Westwood: So why was
Syrup making you fat?

Danny Brown: It's the sugar
You're drinking a lot of sugar i might
Drink a 2-liter of soda a
Day by myself that's just too much
Soda to be drinking a day

Tim Westwood: Coming off the syrup
How long did you feel it took to
Get your mind off of it?

Danny Brown: About two weeks i
Mean your stomach is just
Real fucked up that's what's
So nasty about it
Everyone's talking about sipping syrup but
If you don't have syrup for three days your
Might shit on yourself

Tim Westwood: Oh it's that bad?

Danny Brown: You can't hold it
It's diarrhea but then
This is the other side is if you drink too
Much, you become constipated and you
Can't take a shit
That's why Gucci Mane's belly was like that
It wasn't that he was fat it's that he was
Bloated there was mad turds up in there

Tim Westwood: He was backed up!

Danny Brown: This is true
Though so, it's nasty, to
All the kids who think
Drinking syrup is cool, don't get
Me wrong it tastes amazing and
It might help you sleep at night, but all
The other side effects, it's not worth it

Tim Westwood: So the bloated stomach
Putting on the weight
Being backed up like a mother fucker-

Danny Brown: And then if you don't have it
You gotta shit like crazy you can't
Hold anything you might as well
Get some Imodium A-D and keep them
In your pocket like peppermints
Literally as soon as you
Start eating you might
Not even have nothing in your stomach, just
A couple drops of water a lot of people
Listening think it's like a glamorous thing
It's not man!

Tim Westwood: I can't even imagine
If I were gonna come off the
Syrup I'd be scared to fart
Danny Brown: But that's why people
Continue to drink and then
You have some people that drink
All the time and
Talk about it but you don't see the signs of
That so I think there's a lot of punks
I think there's a lot of studio sipping

Tim Westwood: You think so?

Danny Brown: They talk about but
They ain't about it

Tim Westwood: They ain't about it

Danny Brown: yeah they just promoting it at
The end of the day, yeah
It is for no reason

Tim Westwood: With that
Sleeping is good though?

Danny Brown: yeah and it was
Good for me to sleep, you're
Traveling to different time zones, you'd
Just be messed up
And then you have to go back
Out so to go home
And sleep for two days that
Would be great for me

Tim Westwood: That's how crazy it is
You just sleep for hours?

Danny Brown: yeah I would probably sleep
Like ten hours just out, real
Deep sleep you don't even know
You sleep that's the thing
That's why a lot of people die in they
Sleep because of some habit while you sleep
If something weird were to
Happen while you sleep
And you can't take care of it

Tim Westwood: And sometimes, man, you just
Shut down in your sleep
Everything just shuts down

Tim Westwood: So you have to
Travel with some lean?

Danny Brown: All the time! Last time I
Was with you I was drinking lean, remember?
Tim Westwood: How do you travel
With quantities of lean?

Danny Brown: Because you can take
Three ounces of liquid on
A plane you know, you can
Buy those travel things, just
Put three ounces in there
It could be shampoo, they don't
Know what it is, and if they do find it
It's my cough syrup i had a big
Bottle I had to break -

Tim Westwood: Just break it out-

Danny Brown: And get through but then you
Ain't out there drinking to be drinking
You out there to get your stomach right

Tim Westwood: Maintain and self-medicate

Danny Brown: It's nasty, though so
Don't drink lean, kids, don't drink lean

Tim Westwood: So
You think lean should go down the sink?

Danny Brown: Yes I don't think it should be
A drug that's glorified it's liquid heroin
It's an opiate

Tim Westwood: Nothing glamorous, man

Danny Brown: I mean
It tastes amazing! To have your
Brain go back to
That, it tastes amazing but once you
Get addicted to that taste
Man, it's just a brain thing
It's like a mental thing, you're just
Stuck there i haven't been drunk
In a month, month-and-a half
And not a day goes by that I
Don't taste it in my mouth

Danny Brown: I think it's just helping me
Because I'm gone if I was home
I'd be around people who drink

Tim Westwood: So
The road is your rehab but do you think that
You could slip back in two years' time?

Danny Brown: No, I don't even
Want to think like that
No it's not something you can do
Soci- it's not something you
Can do recreationally one sip
And you back it's like smoking
Crack or something it's nothing you
Can play around with
Be like "Let me taste your cup"

Tim Westwood: I used to smoke a spliff every
Day, smoke a spliff in the morning
And now I only smoke once a week

Danny Brown: Once you sip, you drink it, all
Day, every day like I say, man
It's a liquid form of heroin with you
Everybody know what heroin do to people

Tim Westwood: Well
I want to wish you good luck with that
You had some low moments what
Were those moments like, feeling like?

Danny Brown: I've been drinking
That shit for the
Last two years anybody who's
Been dependent on something for that long
You'll have emotional issues
As long as I'm not at home, i'll be fine

Tim Westwood: Now
You tweeted out during the low moments do
You feel like that was a cry for help
Saying you're going through a hard time?

Danny Brown: No
That was just one of those things that
I probably could've kept to myself
Twitter is a motherfucker sometimes
Sometimes your battery
Just needs to die but, you know
I'm the type of person that wears my heart on
My sleeve I don't live for nobody but me

Tim Westwood: What I understand is
That there was not enough
People reaching out to you not
Fans, but other artists
There were no artists who were
Reaching out to you

Danny Brown: No, I was just in my feelings
You know? At the end of the day
It was just me getting off drugs and
Being emotional and being in my
Feelings i was just feeling a type
Of way that day i'm
Over it now everybody that I
Felt like I cared about
That I do care about, that cares about me
They
Reached out to me they saw that shit, like
"What the fuck are you talking about?"
I was just tripping, man

Tim Westwood: Was the ASAP Mob there for you?

Danny Brown: Rocky was actually
Trying to call me
But, I didn't know it was his number
So I didn't pick up, so I missed
Out on Rocky chase talked to me, though

Tim Westwood: He's good people so, I wish you
The best of luck on your journey, man

Danny Brown: Thank you i'm still
Out there having fun, you know?