Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Lil Wayne was one of my favorite rappers. "
Lil Dicky
Rappers
Wayne
Favorite
Related Quotes:
" Deep down, I always had a belief I would get on the charts. "
Lil Dicky
Down
Always
Belief
" 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. "
Lil Dicky
Hip-Hop
People
World
" 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. "
Lil Dicky
Funny
Way
Unique
" I think my TV show is gonna be my big thing, so I'm pretty focused on that, and I think doing that will lead to all of the other opportunities I want, to jump to movies and other stuff, but it starts with that. "
Lil Dicky
Movies
Opportunities
Think
" I always dreamed of being an entertainer. So, my whole life to some extent, or from the age that I can remember onwards, I knew I was going to have to make some sort of attempt at being noticed for being funny. "
Lil Dicky
Going
Remember
Life
" I was a business major at the University of Richmond, and after I graduated, I took a job at a corporate ad agency. I had comedic dreams, but I also had a realistic look at what I had to do when I left school: maybe I'm funny, but maybe I'm one of a hundred thousand funny people, you know? "
Lil Dicky
Dreams
Business
Funny
" Working at the ad agency showed me just how possible things were from a production standpoint. "
Lil Dicky
Possible
Just
How
" I don't think any artist has really relied on music videos the way I do. It's almost like my radio. "
Lil Dicky
Music
Radio
Think
" I don't necessarily think that when I graduated college, I had a plan to work at an ad agency. I had a plan in terms of getting the best job I could, like, just whatever normal job. "
Lil Dicky
Plan
Work
Best
" A part of me wants to rely less and less on comedic visuals and make more substantial standalone music. And get a sitcom on TV where I can let my comedy do the talking there. "
Lil Dicky
More
Music
I Can
" I grew up upper middle class. "
Lil Dicky
Upper
Class
Up
" The way you respect hip-hop is by being true to yourself. "
Lil Dicky
Hip-Hop
Yourself
You
" I think, between me and Chris Brown, if you combined our games, you'd get, like, a real Division I basketball player. "
Lil Dicky
Games
Basketball
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. "
Lil Dicky
More
Me
Think
" I don't spend a ton of time interacting, but I feel like I probably do more than most rappers/artists. I just find it interesting to be able to communicate with fans. It's cool. "
Lil Dicky
Find
Feel
Time
" I feel like the Philadelphia sports teams are really good at having my back. "
Lil Dicky
Back
Feel
Philadelphia
" 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. "
Lil Dicky
Life
Growing
Say
" In my heart, I believe I'm a top flight comedian and a top flight rapper. "
Lil Dicky
Believe
Flight
Heart
" 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. "
Lil Dicky
Think
Music
Time
" I wanted to explain that just because I'm rapping in this funny way doesn't mean that I'm not worthy of actually being evaluated as a rapper. "
Lil Dicky
Mean
Way
Funny
" I grew up when Chris Brown was, like, an icon. He was my ringtone when I was in high school. "
Lil Dicky
He
Up
High
" 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. "
Lil Dicky
Talent
Think
Me
" 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. "
Lil Dicky
Party
Song
Want
" I think people just have to realize that music grows, and hip-hop evolves. I mean, everything evolves. "
Lil Dicky
Hip-Hop
Think
Realize
" My fears are never about failure - it's about extreme success. "
Lil Dicky
Fears
Success
Never
" I always have to poop right before I do a concert. I don't feel nervous, but I think that must be my body reacting. "
Lil Dicky
Must
Always
Think
" Like, I haven't even tried a cherry before, because I'm such a picky eater, and I behave like a 9-year-old. "
Lil Dicky
Tried
Before
Cherry
" I will be in a position where I can afford the Bugatti, but I most certainly won't be buying it. "
Lil Dicky
Position
Will
I Can
" I can't really rap the way rappers rap; I drive a 2002 Toyota Avalon. "
Lil Dicky
Toyota
Drive
Rap
" 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. "
Lil Dicky
Enjoy
Think
Laugh