Lil Dicky Quotes

Lil Dicky

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 15, 1988

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?

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LeBron James - I'm such a big basketball fan, and to be in his body for a day and be able to just dunk at will, have that level of court awareness and size, oh my goodness, that would be a treat.

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Sometimes I want to be completely outlandish and funny, but sometimes I feel the need to prove myself as a rapper.

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'Ex-Boyfriend' is a really funny story that is that much funnier when you have visuals attached to it as opposed to just hearing it. I couldn't let a song like that go un-videoed.

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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've been working a lot with Benny Blanco; he's a producer. And I've been working with Diplo and a bunch of other people. Detail, Charlie Handsome. A variety of people.

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I have Kanye's ego to some extent.

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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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Finally, the day came where I put stuff online for the first time ever. The Lil Dicky video got a million views the first day. It was one of the best days of my life. It was the day I learned I was who I thought I was. It was a fantastic I-told-you-so moment.

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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 don't think any artist has really relied on music videos the way I do. It's almost like my radio.

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I feel like the Philadelphia sports teams are really good at having my back.

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In my heart, I believe I'm a top flight comedian and a top flight rapper.

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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.

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You hear a lot of rap songs about spending money. I thought, wouldn't it be funny to make a song about saving money because it's ironic, but beyond irony, I genuinely have pride in saving money.

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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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Deep down, I always had a belief I would get on the charts.

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Rapping works like a sport... the more you do it, the better you get at it.

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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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Deep down, I want to be a big rapper. I want people to love what I'm doing.

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