Lil dicky professional rapper review tv#
You’ve already sh– yourself on TV and shared your weirdest sexual kink. There are so many premises even in shock sitcom TV that would have a hard time getting to screen. Sure, but also I can’t think of a show where the main character talks about his misshapen privates in the pilot and then ends the season with… we won’t spoil it, but the episode doesn’t start out great. I just saw different things I admired as a consumer and thought about what I wanted to tell and it ended up being a combination of these things rather than me trying to make it like, “I want this to be a combination of Atlanta/Curb/Girls/Entourage.” It wasn’t like we tried to do that, but what ended up happening was you have a little bit of all this in one. It’s not like, “Oh, because Girls is unabashedly being truthful and honest, this show is.” It’s not an instinct to be like Girls, but I do love Girls. I watch a bunch of TV and I say, “I like this from this show and this from this show,” but I think it’s rare to find a show that checks all the boxes this show does, because I wanted it to be so multi-dimensional. Curb Your Enthusiasm, obviously a huge impact. Will Smith really defined what cool was to me, and his career path is a path I aspire to achieve. Growing up I was the biggest Fresh Prince of Bel-Air fan. Were there other sitcoms you watched growing up that you looked to for inspiration when you were putting this together?Ī little bit. I wanted to hire a cast where people are being themselves as much as possible, because that’s when the acting feels like it almost transcends acting. He’s so natural in the show, he doesn’t even really seem like he’s acting. GaTa really is bipolar and deals with a lot of that stuff on a daily level and a lot of that story comes from reality. Going through adulthood and dealing with that sexual insecurity when you’re born and you have a different penis. I was born and had surgery on my penis, and it was a big thing with me when I was a kid. Give me an example of one of those story lines that was inspired by true life that might surprise people who think, “There’s no way that really happened…”Īll the stuff about my penis is real. But I would say it’s inspired by the story of my life, but there’s a lot of really honest truths in it too. There are elements of things that have happened word-for-word, elements that were kind of inspired by something that kind of happened, and things that are definitely made up. It’s not autobiographical, but I’d say it’s semi-autobiographical. That makes it hard to know if it’s straight autobiographical, a blend, or are the writers just nuts? That’s the reality, and I lean into that for sure.Ī lot of times, artists will say, “Well, the show was inspired by my life, but it’s not really about my life.” It seems like you’re suggesting that it is very much about your life, or hews to actual stories from your life that you’ve adapted for the show. Of course, but it’s so different from what you think of when you see rappers on TV and in movies… It wasn’t really done from a perspective of shaming.
I guess it’s my approach to hip-hop to an extent. I talk about lesser, more mundane, slice-of-life things in the show because the context of the show I was comparing to other comedies, not other rappers. Maybe that was more of a goal of my music, as a rapper, to be more relatable.
I think it’s kind of like how I am as a person. Unlike you, Diddy and Jay-Z are always telling you how great they are and never letting on that, for instance, they have a misshapen penis due to surgery as a child. Your character’s struggles in the bedroom and with his confidence are super-relatable. The show is the opposite of what you often think about with rappers: braggadocio, flossing, supreme confidence. It all makes for a Curb Your Enthusiasm-level of cringe mixed with sweet emotion that has drawn raves from everyone from Sia to Madonna and turned Burd into a legit sitcom star.īillboard caught up with Dicky before the Dave finale to talk about pooping your pants, how his parents feel about his new career, and when we’re finally going to hear that second album. It’s a warts-and-all-plus-plus look at a down-deep sweet guy whose on-the-mic confidence belies his absolute terror at most social situations. See How Lil Dicky, Paul McCartney, Bill Nye and Many More Are Celebrating Earth Day
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