Danny Brown and Quadeca flip the script wide open on Book of Daniel, the mind-bending opener to his latest Warp Records plunge Stardust, hitting digital shelves November 7, 2025 and it crashes in like a late-night vision quest, those glitchy loops and frantic flows pulling you straight into the chaos of chasing stars while the ground shakes.
Brown’s always been the guy who turns his demons into dispatches from the edge, and this collab with Quadeca amps that up to eleven. They cooked it in scattered sessions between tours, Quadeca handling production with his signature warped electronics—think pitched-down samples crashing into trap snares, layered with these ethereal synth washes that nod to his own Scrapyard vibes.
Thematically, it’s a raw unraveling: biblical nods to prophecies gone sideways, mixed with bars on addiction’s grip and the hollow glow of internet fame, like Daniel in the lion’s den but the beasts are likes and trolls. Brown’s gravelly delivery bounces off Quadeca’s more melodic hooks, creating this tense push-pull that feels both confessional and unhinged, bridging old-school rap grit with hyperpop’s fever. Early previews from the announcement clip had heads nodding to how it sets a tone that’s less party and more reckoning.
Stardust isn’t just Brown’s next drop; it’s a 14-track fever of boundary-blurring rap, pulling in voices like underscores on the glitchy Copycats, Jane Remover for some icy introspection midway, and Frost Children adding vapor trails to the back half. The whole thing orbits this idea of stardust as fleeting highs—cosmic highs, sure, but grounded in the mess of recovery and reinvention post-Quaranta. It clocks around 45 minutes of shapes-shifting energy, from the opener’s frenzy to a closer that fades into ambient haze.
X has been simmering since the September reveal, with fans stacking predictions on how Quadeca’s touch flips Brown’s formula, threads buzzing about that leaked line teasing a subtle jab at collab egos, and tags like #StardustDanny lighting up with “this might top Atrocity Exhibition” takes. If Quaranta was the therapy session, Book of Daniel feels like the breakthrough.
Dive into the Book of Daniel lyrics below and unpack its raw narrative. Don’t miss other Stardust tracks for more of Danny Brown’s unhinged genius.
| Lead Vocals | Danny Brown & Quadeca |
| Songwriter | Danny Brown & Quadeca |
| Music Producer | Quadeca |
| Label | Warp Records |
| Release Date | November 7, 2025 |
| Song Language | English |
| Copyright © | Warp Records |
Lyrics of Book of Daniel by Danny Brown
[Verse: Danny Brown]
Before They Chisel The Last Four Numbers On My Tombstone
Know I Left So Many Sons Behind, Could Fill A Group Home
Inspired Your Favorite, So Label Me The Greatest
This Road Was Filled With Potholes ’til I Came Through And Paved It
Made It Out A City Where Most Just Give Up
Downplay The Hard Work And Say It’s Just Good Luck
Used To Write Rhymes ’til I Start To Tear Up
Lost A Couple Punchline ’cause The Ink Smeared Up
Now I Made It Past A Decade, Who The Top? Dot And Thebe
And That’s Me, The Big Three, Don’t Give A F**k What They Say
Don’t Care About The Sales Unless We Moving Them Bills
And Got Fronted A Load From Mexican Cartels
But It’s Still Life Or Death, It Ain’t Hard To Tell
And Interviews Snitching, Still To Make A Sale
It’s A Cold World Out There, Keep Your Snorkels Zipped Up
Doing Anything For Content, See Them Numbers Go Up
How We Go From Mixtapes To Clickbait?
Try To Play Me, Tell Me How My Fist Taste
F**k Punching In, I’ma Write ’til My Wrists Break
So They Can See The Words Every Time They Hit Play
Rewind A Couple Times To Understand What I’m Tryna Say
Still Be Doing This If The Pay Was Minimum Wage
A God Mc, ’cause He Talk Through Me
Just A Vessel With A Message, In Due Time You’ll See
Was An Addict With A Habit ’cause This Life, Couldn’t Grasp It
Now It’s Magic When I Sit Behind The Mic With A Passage
Sorta Like The Book Of Daniel, Was Trapped With Them Lions
But I Believe, Interpreted My Dreams, I Know Who I Am
I Walk Around This Earth With My Head Held High
’cause I Know I Told The Truth, And This Game Is A Lie
Sleeping Real Good At Night ’cause I’m Proud Of Myself
Say A Prayer When I Wake Up Because That Rehab Helped
When I Didn’t Have Hope, I Was Turning To Dope
Drinking ’til I Passed Out ’cause I Just Couldn’t Cope
Everything I Went Through Had Me Drowning On The Surface
Discovered Who I Am, Now I Know My Life Purpose
So It Was All Worth It, Now Just Pay Me Mind
I Put My Lifetime In Between The Paper Lines
Every Album Is A Chapter, When I Die That’s Life After
So Go Back And Listen, See I’m More Than A Rapper
Don’t Care About Awards, Not What I’m Doing It For
Believe In Yourself,
And Don’t Have A Care In The World About What Anybody Think
Can’t Piss What They Drink
When The Fat Lady Sings, Just Know You Lived Your Dreams
[Chorus: Quadeca, Danny Brown]
Don’t Be Scared (Nah), It’s Alright (Yeah)
We’re Gonna Make It By The End Of The Night (Let’s Go)
Rain Or Shine (Uh), It’s Alright (Yeah)
We’re Gonna Make It By The End Of The Night
Come On, We’re Outta Here,
We’re Outta Here, Gone, Gone (Go, Go, Yo, Uh, Yeah)
Come On, We’re Outta Here,
We’re Outta Here, Gone, Gone (Uh, Uh, Yeah, Yeah, We Out)
