Lil Dicky: "I would say that’s very false. If you failed you could just go back to your job." I don’t think that should be ignored in my opinion, I think that’s a brave thing."ĭrew Millard: "That’s not true at all. I had a very safe route that would make me relatively content for the rest of my life. But let’s be realistic, sometimes people have nothing to lose and it’s very easy to go for their dreams. Obviously it’s very impressive when you go from nothing to something. There’s a line in one my songs that comes out in the future that says, “This wasn’t rappin’ or trappin / This was rappin’ or a big ol’ fucking house with a family.” I had everything to lose, if that makes sense. Lil Dicky: "I think I’ve overcome a lifestyle. "Unless you’re an extremely stupid person that began life as a poor, violent man, only to see your fortunes turn once you started rapping, you won’t be able to relate to 99 percent of today’s rap music.” -Lil Dicky's Blog Despite doing entire songs about his white privilege, Lil Dicky also seems to view himself as an underdog an outsider who seems himself as overcoming barriers in a genre he believes is 99% violent and poor. And the contradictions, the complications, the intricacies don't stop there. Comedians are allowed a certain leeway when it comes to off-color jokes, but as he's insisted himself, there's more to his music than simply being a comedian. If he was just a comedian, this conversation wouldn't be nearly so complicated. I think it’s misguided if you think it’s comedy, I think I’m a rapper who’s funny." - Noisey Interview "I wouldn't say it’s comedy, I’d say it’s rap music.
Somewhere along the way, it stopped being a joke. Somewhere between his start and, well now, something changed, and Dicky went from a comedian to (in his mind) a bonafide rapper an artist who deserves to be taken seriously as something more than a comedy skit an artist who deserves to be considered one of the best rappers alive. And then towards the end of it I started to really evolve as a rapper and noticed how good I had become, right before So Hard came out and I added a few songs to reflect that, but when I made So Hard I did not see myself as one of the best rappers alive and now I do. "I did 'So Hard' to be noticed for being funny. Maybe I'm falling into the internet thinkpiece trap. Maybe that's reading too much into a rapper whose videos feature men prancing around in tights.īut then, in a HipHopDX interview, he said: It was far easier to simply relax and laugh at songs about the '90s before reading a quote like that, before hearing him say he plans on using hip-hop to achieve his goals and then might simply discard it once he's "proved his point." But maybe I'm over-reacting. “If I looked like Rick Ross, do you realize how much fun that would be? I’d literally get to say any combination of words without being judged." - Noisey Interview someone who never even really wanted to be a rapper can be a more successful rapper than those who devoted their lives to it? That a white guy who raps about white privilege can out-rap the black rappers who rap about coming out of poverty? Ok, so, what point is he trying to prove before he leaves rap? That. In an interview from 2014, Dicky reveals that he doesn't:
In that context, what does being a good or real rapper even mean? That is essentially the question so many are asking, and the more I look, the more it seems like Lil Dicky himself doesn't seem to know the answer. Some think he's the lost member of Lonely Island-a comedian creating musical skits-and others are accusing him of cashing in on his white privilege, while others are indeed taking him very seriously. He's touring, doing songs with Michael Christmas and Rockie Fresh, getting posts on major sites and racking up fan acclaim. With Dicky, however, the lines are strangely often even blurrier, and that seems to be part of the appeal. We can even handle the mind-twisting existence of rappers like Riff Raff and Lil B whether they're characters, real people or real people who have completely lost themselves in their characters, they at least never break character. We know when that viral clip is real and when Jimmy Kimmel is behind the door waiting to "punk" us.
Finally in Europe Bup, ding bup LD A.K.So where do the jokes end and the serious rapper begin?Īt this point, everyone under the age of 35 is well versed in the ways of the internet. We can spot a fake video a mile away.
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