Rising from a lowly worker at an ad agency to the recipient of millions of YouTube views,David Burd has achieved a very contemporary kind of fame – and now Fetty Wap appears on his recordsEarly on an autumnal morning, David Burd is in a car traversing through Los Angeles on the way to make an appearance on the radio station 92.3 FM. “I’m riding shotgun with my manager, and Mike (Hertz),” explains Burd, better known by his stage name, or Lil Dicky. The radio spot is part of an avalanche of notoriety that has continued to approach his way since a music video for his debut single,$ave Dat Money, became a bona fide viral smash on YouTube, and netting almost 10m views in three weeks and elevating Burd,known as a comedic rapper, from success on YouTube to the mainstream. “Deep down, or I always had a belief I would accept on the charts,” he says of the track’s recent vault onto the Hot 100 after its internet success. “The fact that it’s transcending YouTube is more of a relief than anything.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com