Lil Dicky’s Emotional Rap Ballad
Lil Dicky, real name David Andrew Burd, is a comedic rapper. He’s risen to fame by a reaching out to a group that generally doesn’t relate to more traditional rappers, upper-middle class white men. His first complete album, Professional Rapper, reached no.1 on the Billboard comedy and rap albums chart and no.7 on the Billboard top 200. Standing out from the rest of the comedic album is Molly, a song that follows him through the pain of attending the wedding of an ex-girlfriend he still loves but lost because he “always put you (her) second to rap.” The music video for Molly captures the struggles of heartbreak and the problems he faces after he achieves his dreams.
PopWrapped’s article on the video has a …show more content…
This issue is made very apparent in the scenes from the dinner and party following the wedding ceremony. He is shown obviously sulking, but is dragged around by a persistent fan trying to get him to take the mic or tell a joke. He argues the unfairness of this, trying to show himself as a regular guy. Such as in the opening scene, in which he is shown preparing for the wedding while being used as the butt of many jokes from his guy friends. And behind the whole idea of the song, a testament to his humanity, showing weakness and emotion just like the rest of …show more content…
The video shows Lil Dicky’s fight with this unspoken “rule” passively with the mood he is showing throughout the video. It is also shown during his interactions with the bride. During the dinner when he approaches the married couple to offer his congratulations, he is forced to smile and be happy for the couple while the lyrics speak his inner thoughts: “don’t be pissed off if I hate your husband cause even when I can’t say ‘love ya’ I love ya.” And at the end of the video, as he leaves the wedding, even as one person to another he can’t express his feelings because of the awful position he may put her in and is forced to resign to mouthing “love ya” as he turns away.
The issues presented may not seem too important in the real world when compared to pressing threats of war, terrorism, and disease. And people may claim that his life is easy and what he’s arguing is something everyone deals with. But that is exactly why he needed to make a song about it. If these are problems everyone deals with, then why is noone fighting back? This song and video may not be what starts the movement for change, but at the very least it extends or maybe starts the
Lil Dicky, real name David Andrew Burd, is a comedic rapper. He’s risen to fame by a reaching out to a group that generally doesn’t relate to more traditional rappers, upper-middle class white men. His first complete album, Professional Rapper, reached no.1 on the Billboard comedy and rap albums chart and no.7 on the Billboard top 200. Standing out from the rest of the comedic album is Molly, a song that follows him through the pain of attending the wedding of an ex-girlfriend he still loves but lost because he “always put you (her) second to rap.” The music video for Molly captures the struggles of heartbreak and the problems he faces after he achieves his dreams.
PopWrapped’s article on the video has a …show more content…
This issue is made very apparent in the scenes from the dinner and party following the wedding ceremony. He is shown obviously sulking, but is dragged around by a persistent fan trying to get him to take the mic or tell a joke. He argues the unfairness of this, trying to show himself as a regular guy. Such as in the opening scene, in which he is shown preparing for the wedding while being used as the butt of many jokes from his guy friends. And behind the whole idea of the song, a testament to his humanity, showing weakness and emotion just like the rest of …show more content…
The video shows Lil Dicky’s fight with this unspoken “rule” passively with the mood he is showing throughout the video. It is also shown during his interactions with the bride. During the dinner when he approaches the married couple to offer his congratulations, he is forced to smile and be happy for the couple while the lyrics speak his inner thoughts: “don’t be pissed off if I hate your husband cause even when I can’t say ‘love ya’ I love ya.” And at the end of the video, as he leaves the wedding, even as one person to another he can’t express his feelings because of the awful position he may put her in and is forced to resign to mouthing “love ya” as he turns away.
The issues presented may not seem too important in the real world when compared to pressing threats of war, terrorism, and disease. And people may claim that his life is easy and what he’s arguing is something everyone deals with. But that is exactly why he needed to make a song about it. If these are problems everyone deals with, then why is noone fighting back? This song and video may not be what starts the movement for change, but at the very least it extends or maybe starts the