Lil Dicky Called His Shot (throwback to 2015)
The Kevin Clancy Show
Barstool Sports
4.9 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In 2015 we sat down with Lil Dicky in the greenroom of Irving Plaza and he called his shot that he would one day have his own TV show. We talked using rap to get him into entertainment, Dave vs Lil Dicky, finding his soulmate, getting started in rap while working in marketing, and he even gives KFC some advice on rap battles.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, barstool listeners, you can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify |
| 0:04.3 | or YouTube. |
| 0:05.5 | Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:08.3 | Back in 2015, Lil Dickie was performing at the Irving Plaza on his professional rap |
| 0:13.1 | tour. |
| 0:14.1 | At that point, his rap career was a success. |
| 0:17.3 | His internet career was a success. |
| 0:19.8 | But as he sat down with me, I got a much deeper and much more introspective Lil Dickie |
| 0:24.8 | than I ever knew imagined. |
| 0:26.4 | I had thought of him as just this funny guy who could rap and tell jokes. |
| 0:30.0 | When I sat down and talked with him, turned out he was much deeper than that, looking for |
| 0:33.9 | his soulmate, talking about romance and purpose and meaning in this world. |
| 0:38.8 | And he also called his shot. |
| 0:41.4 | And one of the most confident, cocky, smart displays I've ever heard, he explained exactly |
| 0:48.3 | what his plans were to succeed in this industry. |
| 0:51.5 | To go from funny guy to rapper because there was no barrier of entries for a guy like him |
| 0:56.2 | to be in the rap game, then take that success and parlay it into his own television show, |
| 1:02.0 | which is a field he admittedly had zero ties or connections in. |
| 1:06.2 | The dude knew it was common, he knew exactly what he was going to do. |
| 1:09.2 | He called his shot Babe Ruth style and five years later, his show on FXX Dave is a massive |
| 1:15.8 | success. |
| 1:16.8 | I mean, I'm talking massive success. |
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