![]() “But at the same time I want people to respect the skill behind it. “It’s easy to take what I do as a joke, because a lot of times I am joking,” he says from his hotel room at the Sixty Lower East Side the morning after the concert, while packing up his bag to head to Colorado, where he’ll perform at Red Rocks. ![]() Paak, and Dave East.) The nod of approval isn’t lost on Dicky, who is 28, white, Jewish and has only been at the rap game for three years. (Among this year’s inductees are Lil Yachty, Lil Uzi Vert, Desiigner, Anderson. Past freshmen include Kid Cudi, Lupe Fiasco, Wiz Khalifa, Big Sean, Meek Mill, Kendrick Lamar, Future, Iggy Azalea, Chance the Rapper, and Fetty Wap. To be selected as part of XXL magazine’s Top 10 Freshman is to be anointed one of hip-hop’s rising stars. “I say abortion, you say pro choice!” he commands into the microphone. “I can’t really rap the way rappers rap I drive a 2002 Toyota Avalon,” he says, before falling back into his alter ego character, dressed in a D.A.R.E. This is the man, after all, whose tours have been called “Looking for Love” and “(Still) Looking for Love.” ![]() It’s the XXL Freshman Live concert, and Burd – stage name: Lil Dicky – is playing to his audience, pulling a girl up onstage and giving her a lap dance then, revealing his romantic side, sending her back into the throng with a bouquet of flowers. “Who’s got a discreet blunt they can pass me?” he calls to the crowd. ![]() one Tuesday night in late June, and David Burd has just taken to the stage of the Playstation Theater in Times Square. ![]()
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