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" I'm not a big festivalgoer as in, like, a citizen. "
Lil Dicky
Big
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" I've always been totally enamored by hip-hop. I wouldn't say I liked it exclusively growing up. It was, like, that and alt-rock. But I always preferred it. It set a tone for everything I wanted to do in life. "
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" My whole initial goal was to be a comedian, so it's not like I chose to do a TV show out of nowhere. It's kind of always been goal to do a TV show. "
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" Deep down, I want to be a big rapper. I want people to love what I'm doing. "
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" Obviously, my aspirations are to be considered one of the best. Like, anyone rapping should have that mindset. "
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" Usually, I think of the song, and then the video plays out in my head as I'm writing the song. I started rapping to become a comedian, so I'm certainly thinking about the visual component of things beyond just the music most of the time. "
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" I grew up when Chris Brown was, like, an icon. He was my ringtone when I was in high school. "
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" I was lucky enough to be in the studio with Drake and Kanye before I put 'Freaky Friday' out. I showed them the video before I put it out. "
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" Working at the ad agency showed me just how possible things were from a production standpoint. "
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" Growing up, the one thing I noticed was that everyone seemed to laugh at my jokes wherever I went. "
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" People see a 'South Park' episode, and there's racially insensitive jokes - nobody bats an eye because they're expecting that in that context. In hip-hop, they don't expect that kind of thing because it's a white person in a predominantly black world. "
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" I grew up upper middle class. "
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" I would say that I don't make music quickly; like, my process has been very slow, and my bar is very high, and I don't really rush to make music just to get something out there. "
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High
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" I remember, in fifth grade, doing a report on the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin as a rap. It was just an easy way to get an A back then because everyone was turning in boring stuff. "
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" I feel like the Philadelphia sports teams are really good at having my back. "
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Feel
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" It's impressive to the girl that I'm texting that I have my own emojis. It adds to my charm as a man seeking love. "
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" One time, I performed 'Save Dat Money' with Justin Bieber. I was at his album release party, and he was like, 'Do you want to do the song?' I was also on a date, so the date met Justin Bieber, and I couldn't have looked cooler. "
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" I'm a relatively cheap person who, to me, it's not cool to overspend; it's cool to get a great deal. "
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" I spent two years making music in San Francisco for my first mixtape. Initially, I was not at all doing this to be a professional rapper, a touring rapper. I didn't think I had that talent level in me. "
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Me
" It's not that I'm playing a rapper. I definitely feel like I'm a legitimate rapper. I just think that, who I am, there's more to me than just being a rapper. "
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" I'm pretty self-aware, and I am an embarrassingly flawed human being in a ton of ways. "
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" I care most about what rappers think about me as a rapper, and I've gotten a lot of praise. I think rappers understand I'm a really good rapper, and that means more to me than a random person, you know, 'cause they know what goes into making rap music. "
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" I'm not ever going to stop rapping. I love rap. "
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I Love
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" Being funny is my biggest differentiator, and I think I'd be a fool not to use that, and there's nothing I enjoy personally more than making a human being laugh. But then, I also think I have a serious side to me. "
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" By putting this music out, I think I genuinely eliminated 80 percent of the previous jobs I was qualified for. "
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" I have never been more physically tired than after that first song of my first concert. "
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" I can't really rap the way rappers rap; I drive a 2002 Toyota Avalon. "
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" Like, I haven't even tried a cherry before, because I'm such a picky eater, and I behave like a 9-year-old. "
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" Deep down, I always had a belief I would get on the charts. "
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Belief
" It's hard to form actual legitimate relationships. "
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Relationships
" I knew I could rap a little bit, which is not the most unique way for being funny. The more I did it, the better I got at rapping, and then I fell in love with the craft of it, and the possibility that I was a good rapper was very intriguing. "
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