His new material creeps closer and closer towards actual hip-hop that is comedic, rather than comedy-rap. He’s on a tour that he funded through Kickstarter, and is readying an album entitled Professional Rapper. Lil Dicky isn’t going anywhere-his newest video, “Lemme Freak,” has roughly 2.4 million views on YouTube. At his worst, he is a defensive, clueless asshole who, to quote the writer Sam Rosen, is “constantly lamenting the fact that he is not Black while simultaneously celebrating the spoils of white privilege.”
The clip finds Dicky both explaining and indulging in the minutiae of white male privilege, rapping about how his name “ain’t stupid,” how “I go on dates, never have to worry about getting raped,” and “I know I’m being condescending in my rhymes / but my premium channels mean Tyler Perry’s never live.” Dicky demonstrates this by pissing on a cop car, laughs at a black man for having deodorant streaks in his armpit, and beating a black man-who, it is implied, has no idea what a tennis racket is-at tennis.Īt his best, Lil Dicky crosses Big Sean’s goofy wordplay with Larry David’s satirical eye, or a one-man Lonely Island with better flow. The blog post continued, “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.” A month later, he would release the music video for “White Dude,” perhaps his best-and most incendiary-song. “Every single rapper raps about shit I can’t relate to,” Lil Dicky wrote in a blog post titled “Mission” on April 25 of last year, the same day that he released his music video for “Ex-Boyfriend,” which would go on to earn a million views in 24 hours.
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