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I think fish is meat
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because it’s an animal, right?
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Is a fish an animal?
00:04
Yeah, it’s an animal.
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What is an animal?
00:06
A fish is an animal.
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An animal is anything with a soul, right?
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I think I’m really on a tangent here,
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I don’t even know.
00:12
We’re still talking about Nasacort, right?
00:14
[upbeat music]
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Yo, GQ, actually it’s the people who watch GQ.
00:22
Hi, I’m Dave and I’m a rapper who goes by Lil Dicky,
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and these are my essentials,
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can’t live without them.
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First thing’s first, warmth.
00:40
I’ve got this here blanket that is cream colored.
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I run cold as a human,
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if you touch my hands at any moment,
00:46
you might be shocked,
00:47
you’ll think I’m sick.
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So I put this blanket on me
00:50
just to keep my blood warmth up.
00:53
It’s not this blanket only,
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this is not my childhood blankee,
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I never had a blankee.
00:58
I guess now I do have a blankee,
00:59
but this blanket has a good texture
01:02
to where I bought four different versions of it,
01:05
different colors, scattered around the house.
01:07
Two people can fit under this,
01:08
I will wrap it around women when we’re watching movies,
01:12
brings bodies closer together
01:13
in a totally consensual, good way.
01:15
Nothing weird going on over here [laughs].
01:20
I can’t even express
01:22
how important these headphones are to me.
01:23
I actually can’t even make music
01:26
without using these headphones.
01:29
They’re so worn,
01:30
I’ve worn them down,
01:31
if you can see the gristle of the phone,
01:34
and they’re worn down in such a way
01:36
that it actually totally impacts the sonics of everything.
01:40
And it’s the only way I care to hear my own voice
01:42
when I record,
01:43
which is totally problematic.
01:45
If I lost these headphones,
01:46
I really don’t know that I’d be able to make music anymore.
01:49
I’m definitely being,
01:51
no, that is true, yeah.
01:52
If I lost the headphones,
01:53
I think I’d have to retire.
01:55
I doubt that the more a headphone exists,
01:58
the better it gets.
01:59
I think it’s pretty counterintuitive,
02:00
just in this case,
02:02
I don’t know,
02:02
it’s hard to explain.
02:03
I don’t know the phrasing or the words,
02:04
but there’s a sharpness to my voice
02:07
that if I have the brand new version of these,
02:10
it gets much duller.
02:12
And I need to feel not dull
02:14
because if I don’t like the way I sound
02:16
when I’m rapping, who will?
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When I put these on,
02:19
I really respect myself.
02:23
Just when I’m freestyling and I hear my own voice,
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I think, Oh my God,
02:26
you really are the one.
02:28
This is what I look like when I wear them.
02:29
The cord itself, disposable,
02:32
I’ve got 10 of these,
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doesn’t matter which cord.
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In fact, this cord sucks,
02:35
it’s too long.
02:36
There’s no reason I should ever have a cord this long,
02:39
it’s actually a burden.
02:40
When I freestyle,
02:41
it actually makes no sense ever.
02:43
I don’t understand how rappers
02:44
can go in the booth and freestyle,
02:46
like Jay Z actually freestyles brilliant prose.
02:49
When I freestyle,
02:50
it’s just gibberish.
02:53
A freestyle about my experience at GQ, okay.
02:56
Here I am today at GQ,
03:01
earlier I farted, P-U.
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I call this the Zohne,
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it’s a white noise machine.
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I call it the Zohne because it’s made by Zohne.
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Every night I sleep with this white noise machine on,
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it just sounds like [sighs] for the whole eight hours,
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and it’s so important.
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I’ve slept with a noise machine my entire life,
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I don’t like silence.
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You hear every creak,
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I think you hear your own thoughts more, perhaps, maybe,
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and I just wanna feel nothing
03:35
when I’m about to sleep.
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I wanna just hear just drone.
03:38
Women sometimes will sleep over
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and initially be very resistant of the white noise sound.
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They’ll say, This is unbearable,
03:45
I don’t even wanna be here anymore.
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And by the morning, they’ll say,
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I’m getting one for my own house
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because I had such a great time with you.
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I think part of it is because of your personality,
03:55
another part of it might be because of your Zohne.
03:58
Oh man.
04:02
Initially I purchased this neck pillow for flights,
04:04
but there’s something that’s so ergonomically unsound
04:07
about my studio set up at home
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combined with my frail just spine and posture choices,
04:14
that makes it an absolute requirement for me to wear this
04:18
when I rap and record.
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This is my natural posture,
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look at how it is without it.
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I’m doing this for four hours straight.
04:29
I do my best rapping at 9.30 a.m.,
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fresh out of the shower,
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contact lenses in,
04:34
I’m seeing clearly,
04:34
there’s two screens up.
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And then around one p.m.,
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I’ll notice a soreness in my neck,
04:40
only from holding my head up.
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I put this on and from about 1.30 to six,
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I’m wearing this.
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Half the music you’ll ever hear from me,
04:50
when I’m recording it,
04:51
it’s me wearing this thing.
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You should know that.
04:54
It doesn’t take away any of the swag you think it might,
04:57
it actually adds value.
04:58
I feel more like a performer when I wear it.
05:00
It’s a futuristic thing,
05:01
you know how Nelly had the bandaid,
05:03
people used to wear goggles, chains even,
05:06
this is kinda my thing, I think.
05:08
It’s not really making waves yet,
05:10
but we’re doing this piece
05:11
and maybe more people will see it.
05:15
Nasacort, seems pretty self explanatory
05:17
but no one can really rap effectively with a stuffed nose.
05:21
My nose is just always stuffed,
05:22
one time I went to the ENT,
05:24
the ear, nose and throat doctor,
05:25
and he couldn’t believe that I lived life this way.
05:27
My nose is stuffed 95% of the time,
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I can’t even smell.
05:31
I have no sense of smell,
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and sometimes it gets stuffed to such a degree
05:35
that I can’t even breathe.
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So I can’t rap that way, again,
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so this is,
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I probably put too many squirts in.
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It says, I think, uses,
05:47
doesn’t even say the amount you should or should not use.
05:50
I know you shouldn’t be doing eight squirts a day
05:53
on each nostril.
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So I spray it,
05:56
and it clears me up,
05:58
at least momentarily,
05:58
and there’s no residual odor.
06:01
I’ve taken other versions of this
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and there’s this taste.
06:05
No, not with Nasacort.
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Where do I begin?
06:13
This is Harry,
06:14
he’s an alien,
06:15
one of the best friends I’ll ever have.
06:17
He’s been around since I was eight,
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and I’m 31,
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so I’ll do the quick math real quick.
06:24
31, 21, so 23 years.
06:29
Big nose, mouth underneath,
06:32
I’d draw him a lot.
06:34
Like if I was at a restaurant
06:35
and there were crayons and napkins to draw on for children,
06:40
I would draw Harry.
06:42
What?
06:43
He also doesn’t talk.
06:45
I don’t actually believe that he is a real thing,
06:48
but it doesn’t mean he’s not important.
06:52
My cream, every night you’re probably wondering
06:55
what’s this guy doing at 9.30 p.m.
06:58
Is he in the gym getting shots up?
07:00
Is he collaborating with Kanye West?
07:03
No, I’m putting cream on my face.
07:06
I don’t know what it does,
07:08
but I’m normally so greasy.
07:10
You know those things that you buy at a Walgreens
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where it’s a thin sheet of plastic
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and you put it on your face and it becomes clear
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and you can see how much grease you have?
07:20
Before this cream,
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if I put that on my face,
07:22
the sheet would evaporate.
07:24
It would evaporate due to the grease,
07:28
I’m so greasy.
07:30
Press your finger on my head
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and you’re disgusted,
07:32
until this cream.
07:34
Morning, apply the cream,
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night, apply the cream.
07:38
I think you can see facially,
07:40
I’m certainly coming into my own,
07:43
I’m really I think thriving romantically, sexually,
07:47
and I’m just ready to explode in 2020.
07:49
So recently somebody sent me an Oculus,
07:52
the tool that allows you
07:53
to enter the three-dimensional realm.
07:55
I knew there were games to play on it and whatnot,
07:57
but the first thing I did,
07:59
like I’m sure everybody does,
08:00
I looked into VR porn.
08:03
Well, that’s the only reason this is here.
08:04
[laughing]
08:05
I don’t do anything but watch porn on this.
08:08
I know there’s a lot of cool things you can do,
08:11
I’m sure there’s something great I could do with the NBA.
08:13
Feel like you’re court side,
08:14
but really, no,
08:15
this thing comes into play around 12, 12.30 a.m. every night
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and it’s a real to-do.
08:20
It’s crazy, it’s really cool.
08:23
People were saying,
08:24
Don’t do this,
08:25
you’re gonna disappear from the face of the earth,
08:27
you’re gonna stop dating.
08:28
No, it has not replaced actual romance or women,
08:32
it’s just replaced two-dimensional masturbation.
08:36
Water bottle, it seems simple but it’s a constant
08:38
because, first off,
08:39
the worst thing that can ever happen to somebody, I think,
08:43
is that they’re thirsty, I think.
08:45
If you died of thirst that would suck,
08:47
so I stand by that comment I think.
08:51
Being thirsty is horrible.
08:52
Obviously, we’re in the middle
08:53
of a huge environmental crisis
08:54
and we shouldn’t have plastic bottles around at all times,
08:57
that’s so wasteful.
08:58
So I’ve got this old,
08:59
I call it my pink thing.
09:01
Fill it up with water,
09:02
the technology is insane.
09:03
The water’s cold,
09:04
it stays cold forever in this thing.
09:06
I could have cold water in it in the fridge,
09:08
take it out,
09:08
put it in the desert, I think.
09:11
Actually, I’m not sure,
09:12
but it should,
09:12
I think it should.
09:15
Thirsty right now, actually.
09:21
Like it just came out of the fridge.
09:23
Last thing is already here,
09:25
and it’s my body.
09:26
No, I’m just kidding,
09:27
it’s my rubber band
09:28
that I keep on my left wrist at all times.
09:30
Ever since I was in fifth grade,
09:33
because I used to wear the hairbands
09:34
of girls that I had a crush on,
09:36
but it actually turned kinda territorial.
09:38
I wanted to wear my hairband.
09:40
So just to keep everybody satisfied,
09:43
I started wearing just the Whole Foods rubber band
09:46
on my left wrist.
09:47
I’ve had a Whole Foods rubber band on my left wrist
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for about 17 straight years.
09:51
Not the same one,
09:52
they stretch out.
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One will last about three weeks
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before it gets too lose and full of lint.
09:56
There were times where I’ll do a concert or something
09:59
and I’ll crowd surf because I’m cool,
10:02
and somehow the rubber band will get ripped off my wrist
10:05
and then I won’t realize it until two hours later,
10:08
and I’ll be shocked and feel so uneasy
10:11
until I can get another one on my wrist.
10:13
People think that I wear it
10:14
to do the self correction thing, no,
10:17
and I hate,
10:18
boy, do I hate when people come up to me and go,
10:21
What’s this for?
10:22
And stretch it out.
10:23
It happens all the time,
10:24
and I wanna spit in the person’s face when they do that,
10:27
but I don’t because I’m well adjusted.
10:30
Thanks GQ, these were my essentials,
10:32
I’m not saying that you need to do what I do,
10:35
but obviously I’ve reached a pinnacle in terms of success
10:38
and if you wanna adopt the things that I do,
10:41
go for it.
10:42
I think it’s cool,
10:43
and thanks for watching.
10:48
That was cool.