However, the songs “How Can I Become a Bawlaa” and “All K” serve to double down on Dicky’s ignorance. Now, this track could potentially be defended as a hard satire if it existed in isolation. It seems that Dicky doesn’t understand that it isn’t appropriate to celebrate white privilege, especially through the medium of hiphop. He dedicates the first verse to rapping about how great it is to be white, the second verse how great it is to be a man. It’s a track where Lil Dicky celebrates his white privilege in a hip-hop song. The track “White Dude” in particular proves it. However, when I checked out his mixtape, “So Hard,” I found a few tracks that made it crystal clear that Dicky does not get it.
With Lil Dicky, I saw the potential for an alternative, and more exciting than that, one that spoke to my own human experience. I don’t have these experiences and likely never will. I understand that life in the hood is hard, and we should celebrate success, but I can only connect with it so far. It’s like I hear the same verse reinterpreted over and over again since the Bling-era. I’m not interested in your diamonds, money, cars, women, or your drugs. In this track, I saw the potential for something that I had been yearning for years – an artist who can utilize the tools of hip-hop to tell stories outside of the traditional culture. Also, Dicky’s bars were intricate and well delivered. The song worked because it was playful and funny. The song is an expertly performed, hilariously written song about a guy who feels inadequate when he meets his girlfriend’s gorgeous ex. I first heard of Lil Dicky when the video for his song “Ex-Boyfriend” hit the front page of Reddit. Lil Dicky, or Dave Burd, is a rapper from Pennsylvania. Lil Dicky consistently misses the mark without respecting or even really understanding the culture he’s trying to be a part of thus creating dissonance within his career that riddles his songs with problematic content, robbing him of the opportunity to be genuinely insightful, and hurting other potential artists in his lane. With the release of his new music video, “Freaky Friday,” I felt I had an opportunity to clarify my feelings about David Andrew Burd, known to the rest of the world as Lil Dicky. This is as much an op-ed as it is an attempt to find catharsis, as I find Lil Dicky’s career to have gone from exciting to frustrating.
However, at this point, I feel I’ve meditated on his presence enough to flesh out my opinion properly. Lil Dicky has been on my radar since his debut, and I’ve often brought him up on the podcast over the years. Much to Brian’s chagrin, I’ve often defended Dicky’s place in the game to little avail.
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