

Growing up, he idolized Larry David, Adam Sandler, and Seth Rogen.

Now I will look to destigmatize genital herpesġ6. I can't emphasize how stressful this process was. The first episode of Dave actually begins with Burd at an STI check-up, which is based on a real-life event. Well, he spent a wee bit of cash on “$ave Dat Money,” but otherwise made a profit. Hyper-neuroticism isn’t the only Jewish stereotype he wears on his sleeve - Burd loves a bargain, so much so that he made a music video with Fetty Wap and Rich Homie Quan without spending any money. One more note about his mom, Jeanne Burd: Her ringtone is Lil Dicky’s “Earth” and she described him to the New York Times as “not afraid to say what was on his mind and he was always fearless and confident.”ġ1. Relatable! Also, please listen to the interludes. I’m probably as neurotic as I am because my parents were overprotective and made me think about shit all the time.” I think who I am as a person has a lot to do with my parents, and I think that’s important to show. “My parents are just absurd characters, and classic Jewish parents so I felt I had to document it. “You couldn’t fake something like that,” he told Canadian Jewish News.

Those interludes on the phone with his parents in Professional Rapper ? Yup, they’re real. It’s the reason I am who I am, is my dick. And it should be taken seriously, because it’s the thing that’s always weighed on me my whole life. When really it’s the biggest truth of my life that I’m revealing. Because then it just makes it a dick joke. “I like that people can watch and be like, ‘Oh, he’s probably just joking’… But then at the same time, I hate it. In an interview with The Ringer, Burd elaborated: The surgeries Burd got on his lil dick straight out of the womb have affected him his entire life and is the basis for his alter-ego stage name, Lil Dicky. About that stage name: He has Hypospadias, a birth defect where the opening of the urethra, the tube where urine comes out of, is on the underside of the penis instead of at the tip. when i began my career he went out of his way to talk to me on the phone and give me advice. Lil Dicky tweeted after Miller’s passing, “when i began my career he went out of his way to talk to me on the phone and give me advice.
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Fellow Jewish rapper Mac Miller gave him advice when he was starting out. “I feel like 4th of July in America is about celebrating our homeland, and I think it’s cool to be in my religion’s homeland on such a day.”Ĩ. Birthright rejected him - can you believe? On his first trip to Israel in 2017, Burd performed two sold-out shows in Tel Aviv and ventured on a DIY Birthright trip with a camel ride and visits to religious sites. I’m not observant in the slightest but I definitely identify culturally with it.”ħ. “I think I’ve overblown my Judaism in terms of how actually observant I am. Lil Dicky believes he’s in the running for most Jewish rapper in the game, but identifies with Judaism culturally, not religiously. After seeing him perform at his Jewish summer camp, Camp Kweebec, hip hop group 112 asked Burd to open for them: “I was this little rapping kid and they liked me.”Ħ. Burd’s defense? “ What am I gonna do, buy a couch when I’m 28-years-old?”ĥ. Burd used his bar mitzvah money ($6,000) to fund “Ex-Boyfriend,” the first music video on his debut mixtape “So Hard.” Were his parents on board? Not really.
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After quitting his job Burd raised $100,000 with a Kickstarter to fund his absurdly hilarious music videos for Professional Rapper, his 2015 full length album.Ĥ.
