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I've never been on tour before, so I didn't even know what to expect.

But I imagine it would feel like freedom.

You know? Like freedom from having to create every day.

Freedom from being a prisoner of my own ambition.

And I could just have one task every night. Perform my music. But it's a lot

different making these songs in my studio by myself. I mean, every night

I'm out there and I really do...

face the music you know i'm seeing the crowd and i love my fans i really do but

some of them are ruining it for the rest of them because we're at a time right

now where our country is like eating itself alive and i'm up there making

jokes that i don't even know if i find funny anymore and like on top of that

every moment i'm like being filmed and scrutinized and like If I say the wrong

thing on stage or do the wrong thing, who knows what would happen? And I

thought this tour was going to be like me living, but it really just feels like

I'm survived.

I need to rebrand because I'm breaking down.

I just can't do it anymore.

So what are you saying?

He's saying he wants to cancel the rest of the tour.

Yeah.

Oh.

I'll be okay.

Think about Lincoln.

Everything that he went through.

Stay strong mentally.

So we're going to get through this as a unit.

Honestly, I just don't even know what the stock is anymore.

Like, it feels half-baked if we're stopping now.

Look, life isn't all about content. Everything is content, dog.

No, Gaeta, not everything is content. I'm not content.

I'm not content.

How does Jack Harlow... How do those guys' followers go up like this?

Harrison is a thief of joy.

Okay, 158, Dave, let's go. We got to go. We got to get ready for this call. I

need the two minutes. No, because I need to connect to the Wi-Fi because there's

no signal out here, Dave. So we need to be prepared. They're going to call any

minute now. Let me gather my whole... I know you want to cancel your tour for

your mental health, and I'm here for you, okay? Bieber did it last year. It's

not that big of a deal. It's okay. I love you, all right? I'm doing this with

you. I know. I love you, too. I just feel so bad for all my fans that bought

tickets. You can't feel bad for the fans. They're going to get a full

refund. Plus, your fans would rather have you happy and healthy. I would hope

so. And look.

And look, what did I say?

That's why I do what I do. You're buttoned up.

Yo, you got Mike and Dave.

Both. Yeah, it's Keith.

Oh, Keith, the big dog. What do we owe this pleasure to you?

What's up? Yeah, shut the fuck up. What you idiots are proposing is outlandish.

Dave here.

So, look, I just want you to know that I really put a lot of thought into this

decision to cancel the tour. It's not one I took lightly.

I don't know if you watch CNN these days, but, like, The nation is so

divided right now. Pretty toxic. Yeah.

Again, shut the fuck up and listen to me. You have been a thorn in this

label's side since we signed you. Yeah.

Jail? That's a good song still.

The shit in Korea?

Let's just keep this conversation purely domestic if possible. If we start

talking international issues, we're just going to be talking throughout. Yeah,

it's dirty. You refused to promote your album with the VMAs. You did a song with

Gator? Fucking Gator? It's Gator.

Yeah.

Sorry, folks.

Engine's being frisky, okay?

Am I on speakerphone? Take me off. No. Sorry about that, Keith.

Hold on. Let me talk to you outside, Keith.

This is the most mismanaged operation I've ever seen.

You've recouped about 18 grand out of a $400,000 advance, leaving... $382,000.

Right. And you've breached contract more than enough times so you will be hearing

from our lawyers.

Oh, you're going to get litigious?

Yes.

Okay.

That hurts.

But, look, I understand that, like, the Lil Dicky thing hasn't really popped off

the way that we all would have imagined it would, but I have a whole plan to

rebrand. Mike, take me off.

Hey, Keith.

Yeah, okay. Look, let us come back with a plan to show you that this is way more

cost-efficient, okay?

I am going to take care of this. I can prove to you this is a well-run machine,

you know? Let me show you that we can get our shit together here. I promise

you, even if it seems bad now, it's not.

Oh, yeah!

What the fuck?

What in the fuck?

Cliff!

Cliff! Cliff! Get away from the bus! Dave, get away from the bus!

Dave! Dave, get over here!

Get him away from the bus!

Oh, man, it was the rats!

The rats! The rats got in an undercarriage! What the fuck are you

talking about, bro? We're gonna fucking die!

All my shit is on there, bro!

You better ask somebody about me! My fucking laptop! My God, we are so lucky!

How much does a fucking bus cost?

Why are you worried about that shit? We could have died. Like, fuck all this

little dicky fucking shit.

Man, this is some real bad boy shit right here. I'm about to get this on the

story. IG, look.

Fuck. I didn't know it was that. These are servers.

There's still no cell service out here.

Damn, I fucking left my meds on the bus.

My Adderall was on that bus, too. I didn't take my Adderall today, so...

This is all y'all's fault.

Y'all left the food that drove the rats to the food that caused the explosion.

Cliff, if you don't hurry the fuck up... Dita, we have to save that. Are we

really in that type of situation?

Yes.

I'm trying to cool down. It's hot as a motherfucker out here.

Who's Lil Dicky?

I don't know.

But R.I.P. Lil Dicky.

Wait.

What? Whoa.

Oh, my God.

Oh,

I need to wash my hands.

Oh, finally, Wi-Fi.

You got the Wi-Fi?

I don't know how they just did all the fucking traveling and the wandering.

Hey, will you share the password, please?

I'll just share it with you, Mike. You need to get me water because I've never

been more thirsty.

Yo, what the fuck?

Wait, are you guys seeing this?

What? Drinks, can I get you guys? Just give us a minute, please. A minute.

What's going on? This shit ain't cool, man.

Is it another mass shooting?

Everyone thinks you're dead.

Some what? Dead. I'm getting sorry for your lost texts. I'm getting calls.

I have 90 unanswered texts that are just like, yo, sorry, bro. I didn't know what

was going on, bro. Like, what the fuck?

That's my sex doll, man. How many Instagram followers did you have this

morning?

Like, I don't keep track.

It's like 847,000 or something.

Oh, you've got 2.9 million now. No, I don't. 2.9 million? In, like, three

hours? Everybody thinks you're dead.

It's the number one trending topic on Twitter, bro.

My mom has texted me, bro. I don't know what the fuck to do. Oh, my God.

Hashtag RIP Lil Dicky? Holy shit. This is exactly the...

Dory. Okay, I need the Wi-Fi right now. Someone give me the Wi-Fi. Yeah, I need

it. Dave, can I talk to you on the phone for a second? Yeah, give me a second. I

just want to... What are you... What are you doing?

Real fast, outside.

Real fast, outside.

Give me my phone right now. Just one minute, please.

Mike, you always... Hey,

can I have my phone back so I can tweet to the world that I'm not dead, please?

Yeah, yes. Yes, we can do that. We can do that. Thank you. Or we don't.

We don't at all.

What? Just for a short amount of time, a little period of time, we do nothing. I

don't understand. I'm not going to let people think I'm dead.

My mom thinks I'm dead. Give me the phone. I have to call my parents, man.

My mom thinks I'm dead.

Listen. Listen to me for two seconds, please.

Okay, just... Your streams are up.

Way up.

Give me my phone back. And I'm talking so way up that we could recoup the

label's losses, all of them, in one day.

One day? I did the math. One day.

This could fix our entire situation.

If we just play into this little misunderstanding just a little bit, you

know, and... We can't do that, man. L's. Why not? Think about L's. And he's got

pub on most of those songs. He produced almost the whole thing.

He's broke as shit.

Trending right now. On Twitter.

Everywhere. That's crazy.

Or Gator. Gator streams through the roof.

It's absurd what's happening right now. Even Emma, the documentary. It's like,

think about the eyes. It's R.I.P. Lil Dicky. That's trending. That's my name,

okay? I'm going to deal with the fallout. It's already fucking trending,

dude. The internet has it. It's gone.

It exists, Dave.

You know, and at some point you're going to come forward and go, hey, I'm not

dead, obviously.

It's going to be weird. No, because you didn't control the narrative in the

first place. You're just saying, hey, I'm not dead, you guys.

And what's the difference in doing that right now or tomorrow morning? It's

like... Man, you're playing with fire here doing this. Why? We didn't do

anything.

Let's do nothing.

I really wish I was on my Adderall right now.

It's the first time in ten years that I haven't been on my Adderall.

My brain is not able to fucking process this shit. There's a lot of money coming

in. Let me process it, okay? That's what I'm here to do. Do I even want more

attention? I mean, this is the same music that I just canceled my tour for

because I was so ashamed by it.

Why do I want more eyes on that?

I need to do a whole rebrand.

What's a better rebrand than coming back from the dead?

This could be huge.

Massive. We just let it drag out a little bit longer.

Uh-huh. Yes.

I don't even have to check Twitter. I don't even have to know about this. No.

I don't know.

Look, I've... I've got to tweet that I'm alive. I have to tweet that I'm alive.

Give me my phone.

Hold on. Hold on.

I've got to figure out what I'm going to tweet.

LeBron.

LeBron. LeBron follows me? LeBron, Ramon James follows you.

Oh, it's not the real LeBron?

What? Yeah, no. His middle name is Ramon? Yeah, yeah, that's LeBron James.

Yeah.

It's okay, buddy.

I know. I know.

I know.

This is a big moment.

I know.

I worked so hard. You did.

And LeBron, Ramon, James recognize that.

Okay?

But think about this, Felix. I mean, who's next now? Drake? It's like... Oh,

man. Oh, my God.

This is fucked up.

So, we're gonna... One night. One night.

Tomorrow morning, we're gonna say that the bus blew up, we had no service, we

were wandering around the desert. That's exactly what happened. We had no idea

this was happening. Not an idea. By the time we arrived at service, we found

everything out. And the second we have to tell a lie, I'm out. I don't see any

lies. Do you?

No. No, good. Okay, we should get out of here. I'll get everybody.

Because, you know, we gotta just move.

We can't. We shouldn't be here?

Yeah, we should move. We should move. We should move.

Okay. We're alive, Dave! LeBron!

Ramon James!

What?

You guys, we gotta go. It's fine.

Please. It's all right.

Thank you.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Mom! Oh, I'm so happy you picked up. Look, everything is fine. We're all

okay. I'm not dead.

There's nothing to be concerned about. Hang on a second. Your father just

dropped potatoes. I couldn't hear you. I just dropped one potato.

Have you guys not been on your phone all day today? No, we're playing bridge all

morning. What's going on? This is a very complicated situation, so just don't ask

all your usual questions, but essentially the bus blew up. Oh, my God!

What happened? I can't hear.

Everyone is okay.

But there's this, like, Internet rumor going around that I'm dead.

Who's dead?

What happened? Did somebody commit suicide? Look, I'm going to make things

very simple. Listen to these instructions.

Don't go on your phone all day.

Don't talk to anybody.

Just sit at home and do nothing. Can you please do that for me?

No. Wait. We're having dinner with the Mendelssohns tonight.

No. Cancel. You have to cancel.

It's hard to reschedule with the Mendelssohns. They live in Conshohocken.

What? We have to reschedule with the Mendelssohns? I don't care. There's like

bigger things at stake. I will explain everything in more detail later. I have

to go.

I love you both. Drive safe. See you soon.

Love you both. Drive safe. See you soon. Okay, I love you.

Mike, you call your dad, bro.

Um, I just had the strangest phone call with my sister. This is so weird. This

whole thing is so weird. They sat as hell in my hood, too, man. But I told

them we good. You know why, LD?

Huh? Because we top 20 on Spotify, my guy. Okay, I told Allie the deal, and

she needs to hear everyone's voices. We're top 20?

Hello? Allie's on the phone. Oh, Allie. Oh, I forgot to. Hey.

We're okay. Good, Allie. We good, yo. Top 20 on Spotify, baby.

This is not important at all. I'm sorry. It's just not. We need cash. Does

anybody have cash?

If we're going to stay at a motel tonight, we can't use a credit card.

They're traceable. What's the issue if it's traceable? You said we're doing

nothing wrong.

We're not doing anything wrong.

If traceability is an issue, we were just on the phone.

That's two different things, two different systems.

I think I see a pawn shop over there.

Pawn shop.

Does anybody have anything we can pawn?

I ain't got shit.

Come on, man.

This is

crazy, man.

Look who's catching up.

God, you sound like you're eating gravel.

It's so loud.

If I wasn't on Adderall, I would be like 5,000 pounds. I can't stop.

Oh, they put it out. Good for them.

That's smart.

Whoa.

Post Malone just dropped an I'm Drunk acoustic remix.

No, he didn't. Yeah, he did.

That fucking tattooed rat.

I literally DM'd him the second I made that song because I knew he'd be a

perfect fit for it, and he didn't even respond.

Get that shit taken down.

How'd the label take it down? No, Dave, this could be huge. Trying to ride my

fucking death?

Oh, think about this for a second. I know I said tomorrow, but it's a down

week on Billboard. Nothing new dropped.

Okay. I'm saying it's Monday night. It's almost Tuesday. Billboard stops counting

streams on Thursday.

Are you telling me that there's a legitimate shot at a number one here?

I'm telling you that I've been running the numbers all day long.

and Penis has an album, and I'm drunk as a single, have a very good chance of

being the number one album and the number one single in the country at the

same time.

I've told you that the only way I'm going to be satisfied in life is if I

have a number one on Billboard, I know.

I know it's a really dumb way to live your life, but I... No, you want to be

acknowledged at a given point in time by the industry as the best, and you'll

have achieved your dream and be free.

I say this all the time. A lot, yeah, but I'm listening.

So what does that mean? Two more days and then we get number ones?

Look at me.

But that's lying.

What's lying? That's lying. If we don't come out, you said we agreed on tomorrow

morning. There is no lie to be told. You didn't say anything. You didn't do

anything. Gabe, you're not on social media. You're off the grid.

You're off the grid.

I'm never getting off my phone. This is the most interesting content in the

world. Everyone's talking about me. You're gone.

You want to be number one? You're gone.

I gotta find a way to get more radio play, like right now.

I'm gonna go get food. Stay here. Don't move. I'm serious. Please. I gotta sit

here like Anne Frank all night?

You know, you kind of look like her when you shave. Oh, my God!

What? What happened?

Drake.

Drake liked my last tweet.

He knows who I am.

I have to dance. No!

I have to respond. Don't do that, Dave. I'm getting LeBron.

Do you want your dreams to come true? I have to DM these men.

Do you want your dreams to come true?

Good. Then you got to be patient, Dave. You said you want to rebrand. What

better time to think about a rebrand than right now in this room by yourself?

Let me do my thing. You do your thing. And then the whole world is going to be

watching when you decide to reveal finally who the real Lil Dicky is.

Uh-huh.

Okay. I'm on it.

Good fucking shit, Mike.

Is this Keith?

Keith, it's Jim Marrera.

I'm an attorney. I represent David Byrd and Mike Sperry. Yes, I know it's been a

long day over here. You can imagine how we feel, you know.

Yeah, well, crazy thing. Mike told me about a conversation you guys had

earlier, prior, before.

Yeah, no, I know. I can't imagine the guilt you're feeling.

Everyone over there, really.

Yeah, no, no, we're praying. I'm praying. I'm praying myself that they're

missing, but the likelihood is high that they were.

incinerated uh-huh well i'm curious to know is the label going to be supporting

dave's album posthumously uh-huh the boys said yo there was something about

radio maybe did they get radio play and um yeah well they never really felt

supported most of the time keith let me let me call you right back keith

You left these.

Thank you.

They seemed expensive. I didn't want you to lose them.

Thanks.

L.D., what's that stand for?

Landon Donovan.

Landon Donovan is an American soccer player of the U.S. men's team.

U.S.A.

U.S.A.

This is all making me feel crazy.

Here's one you can weigh in on.

MGK, who I've never even met, mind you, so I have no idea why he's posting about

me in the first place, wrote, I'm so sorry about what happened in Germany.

What is this guy talking about? I've never even been to Germany.

Is he just, like, apologizing in general for the Holocaust?

That's all he wrote?

Yeah.

Strange. Yeah.

LeBron is listening.

What is this?

Yeah. Very important. Got to keep this top of mind. LeBron is listening. We got

to remember that.

Who is LeBron?

Is he a Nazi? No, no. Anne, you are safe here.

LeBron is actually the opposite of a Nazi. He's a crusader for justice on and

off the court. He's got, like, schools and really carries himself well.

He followed me today, so it's pretty cool.

He's tracking you?

No, no, no, no. Following, uh, hmm, how do I explain the Internet to Anne Frank?

in life can be obtained, like, through this box.

And through this box, you can communicate with everybody on Earth,

pretty much.

You know, then I was having some... LeBron could unfollow me at any moment,

which is, like, a really troubling reality.

And that's something that I need to, like, keep in mind as well, because I

really gotta figure out how I'm gonna get out of this whole thing.

Get out of...

this this entire situation are you kidding i was worried about scrutiny

before what about now i've like opened up such a i mean what am i gonna do like

go to a park and be like i'm alive and hope that goes over well like i don't

think i even properly contemplated my exit strategy you know it's like what

are they gonna people are gonna eat me alive potentially or not uh but you know

my life could end at any moment

What I mean by that is not, like, end my life in the way that you were clipped. I

mean, like, today in America, they can kill you while you're alive, which, in

my opinion, is worse than being dead.

Although I can't speak to, I don't know how you were killed.

How did you die? Was it like a... In a camp. In a camp, so it was like a slow

death. I kind of always imagine, like, people running up and, like, Osama bin

Laden style, just like... Uh, but...

Yeah, cancel culture is a total nightmare.

Yeah, you make coffee in that.

Coffee.

Coffee? No, it's good.

I don't know if you guys even had stimulants, but... Did you have Adderall

back then?

I'm not on my Adderall.

And it's... I don't know if that's why this is happening.

Oh, my God, they just added six of my songs to Rap Caviar. That's 14 million

new listeners.

Is that what you want?

Listeners? Yeah.

How many listeners is enough?

Uh, that's a big question, Anne, but I don't know. You can really never have

too many.

But the more listeners you have, the more scrutiny, right?

And scrutiny leads to feeling like everything could just end, you said,

right?

Very good memory, Miss Frank.

It was ten seconds ago.

True.

What is this?

Your shirt?

Whip? Oh. What is this?

Whip, yeah, whip.

Whip? It's like a contemporary dance.

It's actually not even that contemporary. It's pretty old at this

point. But it's like I normally have to, like, stand to do it well. But, hey, how

did you deal with all the scrutiny as far as your diary?

You know of my diary?

Oh, my God, yeah. Everyone knows of your diary.

Everyone? Yeah, I mean, I don't know if every single... I mean, it's one of the

most popular books of all time.

How... How did it happen?

How did it happen? Like, I don't understand the question. Like, how did

it get published?

Uh, I can... I'll use the box.

This is the advantage of the box.

Okay, it says here that your diary was published by your father.

Ann, nobody came out of the Holocaust looking better than you.

No, Ann, you came across really well in the diary. You got nothing to be

concerned about. Everyone loves the diary. You're like a treasure of the

Holocaust.

No, Ann, no, you're safe. You're safe here. Where are you going?

Hey, uh, we gotta go.

Elsa's over it. I almost keyed a man in the face, and Gaeta's ramping up real

bad. Leave now. Yeah, we gotta go. We should go. I bought a van, by the way,

so I'll meet you out front with it. We need to keep control of the narrative.

The narrative.

Here, meet me out front.

Being back in L.A., honestly, is just the right move for the next phase of

this.

It's a full media operation at this point. Yeah, we got to come out of it

right. I mean, your audience has gotten way, way bigger.

Yeah.

Oh, that's my phone.

Can you grab that? I don't want to. Yeah.

What was it?

Your brother.

Oh, put it down. I'll hit him later.

Okay. I read it about your dad.

Yeah, our dad has Alzheimer's.

It's like a recent development.

I am so sorry, Mike. It's totally cool. My brother's been taking care of him,

and the deal was that I'd take him to L.A., put him in one of those, you know,

it's just a living home. The tour's done, and the tour's done.

On one hand, he's never going to remember being an emotionally abusive

asshole, but he's also never going to forget to call me a failure when he sees

my face, that's for sure.

Hey, you've managed the hell out of this situation, Mike.

I'm serious. Oh, Dave, come on, man. It's fine. It's totally good.

Honestly, I don't even want to think about it because that's why I did this.

I took this tour because I just... I wanted to be with you and get that...

We're not going to let my dad rain on this parade.

I mean, look at what we're about to pull off.

Yeah. The number one song in the country and the number one album in the country.

It's fucking crazy. You just got to lay low for two more days. 48 hours.

Please, lay low. No one's going to see me. And then everything that you've ever

wanted. That's crazy.

You called it.

Do you remember that? Do you remember that email that you sent me before you

uploaded your first video at Destiny Manifesto? Oh, my God. I forgot all

about that.

Read it to me.

You want me to pull it up? Right now, do it.

All right, fuck it.

Lil Dicky isn't just my rap name.

It's my actual destiny.

That's so stupid.

I'm taking my biggest insecurity, parentheses my penis, and turning it

into my biggest superpower.

I'm sick of seeing people pretend to be one thing even when they're not.

That's not Lil Dicky, and I will never change who I am.

Just to be successful.

Just keep going.

I'm doing this for everyone out there who believes they can do something.

The right way.

I will always hold up my end of the bargain.

I will never take shortcuts.

I will never sell my soul.

I don't care how long it takes or how hard it gets.

I will not stop.

Because that is my responsibility.

And whatever happens, I can accept that. Because that is my destiny.

Today is the day that I am reborn.

And Lil Dicky will live forever.

I don't want to get a number one like this.

Yo. Are you?

Are you Lil Dicky?

Yeah.

Aren't you supposed to be dead?

Yeah, I'm not.

Whoa. Can I get a picture? Yeah.

Yo,

it's Lil Dicky, bro.

He's alive?

He's alive.