DDG is forward of his time. As a YouTuber-turned-rap star, the multihyphenate entertainer has a singular perspective on the rap sport. A rap sport that has seen extra content material creators easing their manner in lately. The Pontiac, Mich. native opens as much as XXL in regards to the controversy surrounding his fashionable new music “Pink Dreads,” doing a joint undertaking with streamer PlaqueBoyMax, the brand new music he is engaged on and extra.
Coming off a viral hit within the type of the music “Pink Dreads” with PlaqueBoyMax, DDG has one other hit on his palms. The observe, launched final December, is shrouded in a little bit of controversy after the producer demanded more cash and received the observe faraway from YouTube. “Pink Dreads” remains to be up on streaming providers. DDG explains how the observe sadly fell aside regardless of it getting traction on-line.
“As soon as I get a foul style in my mouth, I am cool off it,” DDG tells XXL within the video beneath. “I add movies on daily basis. I livestream on daily basis. I am not married to no content material…Hits come on daily basis. You simply gotta discover it.”
Following the “Pink Dreads” debacle, DDG launched a brand new music known as “The Methodology” this month and is presently engaged on a brand new undertaking.
“This yr is about pushing out music constantly and simply rising as an artist,” he shares. “I am doing loads of issues directly. Lastly tapping into this livestreaming factor, making music on dwell and this and that. I really feel prefer it’s a distinct segment and positively one thing that is going to take off.”
DDG has pioneered a wave and he is unselfishly encouraging others to observe in his footsteps. He first began vlogging in 2014, and has since created an empire for himself that has expanded into making music. DDG desires different streamers to start out rapping, too.
“I hate being the one artist that is doing each,” he explains. “If it was extra people who do that very same factor as me, taking music critical, occurring tour, doing issues that artists do, we might take over.”
See DDG weigh in on the “Pink Dreads” controversy, Kendrick Lamar’s Tremendous Bowl halftime present, how TikTok has harm the music trade, the brand new undertaking he is engaged on and extra.