The song was made to raise awareness about the environment, pollution, and climate change. He also gained attention for his 2019 music video " Earth", which featured many singers and actors including Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Ed Sheeran, Shawn Mendes, Kevin Hart, Wiz Khalifa, Charlie Puth, Katy Perry, and Leonardo DiCaprio.
In 2018, his song " Freaky Friday", featuring Chris Brown, became a worldwide hit. He released his debut album, Professional Rapper, in 2015. He came to prominence with the release of the music video for his song "Ex-Boyfriend" in 2013, which became popular with more than one million views on YouTube in 24 hours. Dicky’s celebrity-wrangling skills have only become more formidable: He scored his first Top 10 single in 2018 with the cheeky body-swapping Chris Brown collaboration “Freaky Friday,” while his 2019 eco-themed charity single “Earth” corralled A-list guests like Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, and Ariana Grande to contribute their finest animal noises on what was essentially an R-rated alt-rap answer to “We Are the World.” And then the following year, Burd’s dream of becoming a TV star finally came true: On the FXX comedy series Dave, Burd presents a fictionalized Curb Your Enthusiasm-style spin on a rap success story that was already stranger than fiction to begin with.David Andrew Burd (born March 15, 1988), better known by his stage name Lil Dicky, is an American rapper, comedian, and actor. Dicky laid on the class-clown meta-rap schtick extra thick on his skit-heavy 2015 full-length debut Professional Rapper, but his musical ambitions were no joke-this guy could battle-rap against Snoop Dogg one moment and then craft sensitive power ballads with Panic! At the Disco’s Brendon Urie the next.
But while his 2013 single “Ex-Boyfriend” went viral with its profane yet charmingly self-deprecating commentary about his sexual inadequacies, Dicky’s flow couldn’t be denied: Combining rapid-fire rhymes with a unique nasal rasp, he sounded like Eminem with a three-packs-a-day habit. As a well-to-do kid growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Burd (born in 1988) knew he didn’t have the natural street cred to pass himself off as a genuine rapper he initially picked up the mic as a gimmick to break into the world of film and television as a comedic actor. Depending on your vantage point, Dave Burd, aka Lil Dicky, is either America’s funniest rapper or its most rap-savvy comedian, thanks to a persona that’s part Compton, part Catskills.
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