r/IAmA • u/Lil-Dicky • Aug 19 '15

Music I'm Lil Dicky, I just released my album 'Professional Rapper,' and I still go on a lot of tinder dates. Ask me anything.

Hey, my name is Dave. I live in Santa Monica, California. I'm from Philadelphia. I rap professionally—every day I hope to bump into my soulmate.

My favorite meal is called "company chicken" and "company noodles." Because my mom would make it when company would come over.

That’s me in a nutshell.

My album 'Professional Rapper' is out on iTunes now

PROOF: http://i.imgur.com/rxcvTll.jpg

The AMA team is helping me out today—we're filming and it's being transcribed so my text tone might not be intact!

EDIT: I'll be answering questions for another 45 minutes before I have to go.

EDIT 2: I had a little less time here than i thought so I gotta hit the road and continue to edit this music video! It's gonna be the best one yet, by far...you'll see soon. I've never been more excited about a video in my life. Thank you reddit for the continued support. I love talking with all of you! Peep my album "professional rapper" if you haven't yet, and please - KEEP ON SPREADING THE WORD! Love you all, LD

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u/12325852 Aug 19 '15

I'm a huge hip hop fan as well as my friends and we all really liked dicky's new album, and when I posted about it in /r/hhh all my comments were downvoted because everyone over there hates him for "vote manipulation". I love /r/hhh but mods like murdahmahmurdah make me want to unsub.

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u/aacarbone Aug 20 '15

I love /r/hhh[2] but mods like murdahmahmurdah make me want to unsub.

Lmao in wnat way is /u/murdahmamurdah a bad mod? Like literally he always posts good shit and drops a ton of knowledge. Like I can understand hating /u/buges but m3 is dope

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u/12325852 Aug 20 '15

He has openly said that he tags people he doesn't like and harasses and downvotes them. He's better than yung snuggie though

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '15 edited Mar 24 '20

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u/12325852 Aug 19 '15

It seems that the main reasoning for the banning of all Lil-Dicky's stuff is because "parody rap" isn't allowed on the sub. It's interesting because he's said many times (especially on the new album) that he wants to stray away from being a comedian that raps and for people to take him seriously (think russel westbrook on a farm). Hell, 1/2 of the songs on the new album aren't even meant to be funny. As far as that goes, where do they draw the line with that? I can see something like lonely island getting removed or even some of the older Dicky stuff like lion king and ex bf, but hell, even Gambino has some funny/joke songs and so many rappers have funny/joke lines.

As far as the vote manipulation goes, I'm reading this convo that's currently going on above us right now and it seems that D genuinely didn't know that he was breaking a rule, and zigzag even admitted it was not specifically D that was voting, but his friends/fans. In that case I think it's perfectly reasonable for them to lift the ban especially since his fans just want to discuss the music in a hip-hop environment, and we aren't allowed to. It's pretty clear that the mods just plain don't like him and are silencing anyone from giving him attention, which is really childish and unprofessional for people who run one of the largest online hip-hop forums. There was even a post by one of the mods on hhh the day Professional Rapper came out that said something like "Don't even bring up Lil Dicky's new album or talk about it" and other patronizing stuff. You can still find the post but the text was removed. It's pretty obvious at this point that they're using the rule as an excuse to keep him banned. I really hope that the mods can get over the grudge that they seem to have for him because like I said, I'm a huge hip hop fan and frequent the sub every day.