
Here’s a transcript of our conversation, which has been edited and condensed for clarity. The Ringer sat down with Burd last month to discuss those gifts and curses. It’s the reason I am who I am, is my dick. And it should be taken seriously, because it’s the thing that’s always weighed on me my whole life. When really it’s the biggest truth of my life that I’m revealing. Because then it just makes it a dick joke. “I like that people can watch and be like, ‘Oh, he’s probably just joking,’” Burd said. Throw a rock at the street and see if anybody else would put their biggest insecurity front and center for the world.”īurd’s unexpected challenge is convincing viewers that the most absurd aspects of the show are the most real, especially his birth defects, which have led to intimacy issues. “The fact that he did this is awe-inspiring. “This is a show that’s thinking with your brain about your dick,” Schaffer said. For one of his most famous songs, “$ave Dat Money ,” Burd made a video without spending any money.
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A sixth of those are from the 2018 single “Earth,” which featured cameos from Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Kevin Hart, Adam Levine, Shawn Mendes, Snoop Dogg, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Lil Yachty, Ed Sheeran, Joel Embiid, John Legend, and the Backstreet Boys, plus about a dozen other musicians. The videos on Lil Dicky’s YouTube channel have a combined 1.5 billion views. At 25, he quit a prestigious job in advertising to start rapping under the name Lil Dicky (a name that makes a lot more sense now). Burd grew up white, Jewish, and affluent in suburban Philadelphia. It is an unexpected source of adversity for someone who has faced relatively little of it. “Everything that you saw in that show, everything is totally real,” Burd told The Ringer in an interview last month. Burd says that when he urinates, he has to cover the second hole with his finger or he’ll have two streams flowing in two different directions “like a Super Soaker.” One of those surgeries accidentally created a second hole.

In the third episode, “Hypospadias,” Dave explains he was born with a rare birth defect in which, according to the Mayo Clinic, the urethra is “on the underside of the penis instead of at the tip.” He underwent more surgeries.

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As a result, there’s so much scarring down there.” He goes on to explain that he believes during those surgeries, doctors grafted skin from his testicles onto his penis, which means “my dick is made of balls.” So immediately they had to go in and do all types of surgery to it. When I was born, I came out of the womb with a tangled urethra. “I know this is going to sound so absurd,” Dave Burd tells the doctor, “but before I can show you my penis, I do have to explain a few things about it to you. In the first scene of Dave, the rapper known as Lil Dicky is being examined by a urologist.
