DAVE (2020) s03e06 Episode Script
#RIPLilDicky
1
DAVE: I've never been on tour before,
so, you know, I didn't
even know what to expect,
but I imagined 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,
like, in my studio by myself.
I mean, every night I'm out
there and I really do, like,
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.
A-And, like, on top
of that, every moment
I'm, like, being filmed and scrutinized,
and, like, if I say
the wrong thing onstage
or do the wrong thing, who
knows what would happen?
A-And I thought this tour
was gonna be, like, me living,
but it really just
feels like I'm surviving.
I need to rebrand
'cause I'm breaking down.
(SIGHS) 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.
(DAVE SIGHS)
We'll be okay.
Think about Lincoln.
Everything that he went through.
Stay strong mentally.
'Cause we're gonna get
through this as a unit.
Honestly, I just don't even
know what this doc is anymore.
Like, it feels half-baked
if we're stopping now.
Look, life isn't all
about content, okay?
Everything is content, dawg.
No, Gata, not everything is content.
I am not content.
I'm not content.
(SIGHS) How does Jack Harlow
How does this guy's
followers go up like this?
- EMMA: Comparison is the thief of joy.
- (PHONE CHIMES)
DAVE: None of those fucking
phrasings today, okay? Those idioms?
They're ill-kempt. Do I need
to wear this mic anymore,
- now that you're not interested in
-
- EMMA: Who cares?
- GATA: Come on, man.
Okay. 1:58, Dave.
Let's go. We got to go.
- We got to get ready for this call.
- The call's at 2:00. I need the two minutes.
No, 'cause I need to connect
to the Wi-Fi because there's
no signal out here, Dave.
- Wi-Fi connects instantaneously.
- So we need to be prepared.
- 'Cause they're gonna call any minute now.
- Look, just 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. I love my fans.
- You can't feel bad for the fans.
They're gonna get a full refund.
Plus, your fans would rather
- have you happy and healthy.
- (PHONE RINGING)
- I would hope so.
- And look.
- And look. What did I say?
- They're calling.
- And they're early. You're
- That's why I do what I do.
- You're buttoned up. Hey.
- Yo! You got Mike and Dave.
- Both.
- KEITH (OVER PHONE): Yeah, it's Keith.
Oh, Keith. The big dog.
What do we owe this
pleasure to you uh
- What's up?
- Hi.
Yeah, shut the fuck up.
What you idiots are
proposing is outlandish.
Dave here. (CHUCKLES)
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 gonna be talking for hours.
- Yeah. It's dirty.
You refused to promote
your album at the VMAs.
You did a song with
Gator? Fucking Gator?
- It's Gata.
- Yeah, it's Whoa!
- Whoa! Whoa!
- (METAL SCREECHING)
Sorry, folks. Engine's
being frisky, okay?
KEITH: Am I on
speakerphone? Take me off.
MIKE: No. Uh, sorry about that, Keith.
Let me 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.
Whoa. You're gonna get litigious?
Yes, and to put it even more simply,
we just don't believe in
this Lil Dicky shit anymore.
(LAUGHS): Okay.
That is 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 speakerphone now.
Hey, Keith. Yeah, okay,
- l-look, let us come back with a plan
- I can't hear.
- to show you that this can be way more
- I can't hear.
cost-efficient. Okay?
I am going to take care of this.
I can prove to you
this is a-a well-run machine, you know?
Let-let me show you that we
can get our shit together here.
I promise you, even if it
seems bad now, it's not
Holy shit!
(SOFTLY): What the fuck?
- What the fuck?
- Cliff.
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 wires down
in the undercarriage.
What the fuck are you
talking about, bro?
We could have fucking died.
- All my shit is on there, bro!
- (SCREAMS)
- We're alive. We're alive.
- You better ask somebody about me
- My fucking laptop!
- My God, we are so lucky.
How much does a fucking bus cost?
- (MOANS)
- I ain't worrying about that shit.
We could have died. Like
fuck all this Lil Dicky fucking shit.
Man, this some real Bad
Boys shit right here.
I'm about to get this on the Story.
IG, look
Fuck. Ain't no goddamn service.
♪
MIKE: 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
CLIFF: This is all y'all's fault.
Y'all left the food that
draw the rats to the food
that caused the explosion.
ELZ: Cliff, if you don't
hurry the fuck up
Gata, we have to save that.
Are we really in that type of situation?
- Yes.
- (SCOFFS)
I'm trying to cool down, man.
It's hot as a motherfucker out here.
(BIRDS SQUAWKING)
Who's Lil Dicky?
MAN: I don't know.
But R. I. P., Lil Dicky.
Wait.
What?
Whoa.
- I'm gonna sit in that booth.
- (EMMA SIGHING)
Oh, my God. Got food.
Ugh. I need to wash my hands.
- I'm so dirty.
- EMMA: Oh. (SIGHS)
Finally, Wi-Fi.
- (GROANING)
- Oh, you got the Wi-Fi?
I don't know how the Jews
did all the fucking
traveling and the wandering.
Hey, will you share
the password, please?
GATA: I just shared it with you, Mike.
You need to get me water 'cause
I've never been more thirsty.
- (PHONES CHIMING)
- Yo. What the fuck?
- Wait. Are you guys seeing this?
- Nah, nah.
WAITER: What drinks can I get you guys?
- Just give us a minute, please.
- GATA: I mean, bro
- DAVE: What's going on?
- this shit ain't cool, man.
- EMMA: This is insane.
- Is it another mass shooting?
Dude, dude, dude, dude,
dude, dude, dude, dude, dude.
Everyone thinks you're dead.
- Thinks I'm what?
- Dead.
I'm getting "Sorry for your loss" texts,
I'm getting calls. I
have 90 unanswered texts
that are just like, "Yo, sorry, bro,
didn't know what was going
on, bro." Like, what the fuck?
MAN (OVER VIDEO): R. I. P., Lil Dicky.
DAVE: That's my sex doll legs.
How many Instagram followers
did you have this morning?
Uh Wait, I don't keep track.
Like 847,000 or something?
Well, you've got 2.9 million now.
No, I don't.
2.9 million in, like, three hours?
ELZ: Everybody thinks you're dead.
It's the number one trending
topic on Twitter, bro.
- ELZ: My mom has texted me, bro.
- That's crazy, man.
- ELZ: I don't know what the fuck to do.
- DAVE: Oh, my God. #RIPLilDicky?
Holy shit. This is
exactly the story I needed.
Okay, I need the Wi-Fi right now.
- Someone give me the Wi-Fi.
- ELZ: Okay, yeah. I need to
Dave, can I talk to you
outside for a second?
Yeah, give me a second, I just
want to see what's going on
EMMA: What are you
what are you doing?
- No.
- Talk outside, just for two seconds.
- What are you doing? Stop messing
- Real fast.
Outside. Outside. Real fast.
Outside, outside, outside.
- Give me my phone right now.
- Just one minute. Please.
- Give me my phone.
- GATA: Mike, you always tripping, man.
I'll go.
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.
- Yeah. Thank you.
Or we don't
- we don't at all.
- What?
Just-just for a short amount of
time, a little period of time,
- we do nothing.
- I don't understand.
I'm not gonna let people think I'm dead.
My mom thinks I'm dead.
- My Give me the phone.
- Listen. No, no, no, Dave.
- I have to call my parents, man.
- Shh
- My mom thinks I'm dead.
- Listen. Listen.
Listen to me for two seconds, please.
Okay, just Your
streams are up. Way up.
- Give me my phone.
- 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 this, man.
- Elz. Think about Elz.
- We're not doing this.
I mean, he's got pub
on most of those songs.
He produced almost the whole thing.
He's broke as shit.
GATA: Trending right now.
On Twitter. Everywhere.
ELZ: That's crazy.
Or Gata? Gata's streams
through the roof.
- It's absurd, what's happening right now.
- Okay, they're not
Even Emma, the documentary, it's like
- think about the eyes that gets.
- It's #RIPLilDicky that's trending.
That's my name, okay?
I'm gonna deal with the fallout.
It's already fucking trending, dude.
The Internet has it, it's gone.
It-it exists, Dave. You know?
And at some point, you're
gonna come forward and go,
"Hey, I'm not dead, obviously."
- That's gonna be weird, and that's gonna be
- 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
Y-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.
This is 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 on?
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.
Oh, what 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, I don't even
have to check Twitter.
Why did I I didn't have to know
- I don't even have to know about this.
- No.
I don't know.
Look, I've
I got to tweet that I'm alive.
I have to tweet that I'm
alive. Give me my phone.
- I understand.
- Hold on. Hold on.
Got to figure out what I'm gonna tweet.
"LeBron"
- LeBron.
- LeBron follows me?
LeBron Raymone James follows you.
Oh, it's not the real LeBron?
What? Yes, no.
- His middle name is Raymone?
- No Yes, yes!
- That's LeBron James. Yeah.
- This is LeBron?
(CRYING SOFTLY)
It's okay, buddy.
I know, I know.
I know. This is a big moment.
(DAVE WHIMPERS)
- I know.
- It's like
- I worked so hard.
- You did.
And LeBron Raymone
James recognized that.
Okay?
But think about this, dude.
I mean, who's next now?
- Drake? It's like
- Oh, man.
- Oh, my God.
- (EXHALES)
This is fucking
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.
'Cause, you know, we got to 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 Raymone James!
DAVE: I'm alive.
♪
- MIKE: You guys, we got to go. Come on.
- Fine.
- Let's go, please.
- CLIFF: Have to eat.
- EMMA: So annoying.
- Come on. Thank you. Thank you, thank you.
- Thank you.
- GATA: Man, let me get my phone, man.
(DOOR CLOSES)
Hi, honey.
Mom, ugh, 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-hang on a second.
Your father just dropped
potatoes, I couldn't hear you.
- I just dropped one potato.
- What
The Have you guys not been
on your phone all day today?
No, we were playing bridge
all morning. What's going on?
It's a very complicated situation,
so just don't ask all
your usual questions,
but, essentially, the bus blew up
Oh, my God.
- Just listen, please.
- What happened?
I Shh, I can't hear.
Everyone is okay,
but there's this, like,
Internet rumor going
around that I'm dead.
- Who's dead?
- What? What happened?
Did somebody commit suicide?
Look, I'm gonna 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 Mendelsons tonight.
No. Cancel. You have to cancel.
It's hard to reschedule
with the Mendelsons.
They live in Conshohocken.
What, we have to reschedule
with the Mendelsons?
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.
- CAROL: Okay. I don't understand,
- but I never do.
- Love you both, drive safe.
- See you soon. Bye.
- Okay, I love you
Mike, you call your dad, bro?
- Um
- ELZ: I just had
the strangest phone call with my sister.
DAVE: This is so weird.
This whole thing is so weird.
They sad as hell in my hood,
too, man, but I told 'em we good.
- You know why, LD?
- Huh?
Because we top 20 on Spotify, my guy.
Okay, I told Ally the deal,
and she needs to hear everyone's voices.
- We're top 20?
- ALLY (OVER PHONE): Hello?
- Ally's on the phone.
- Oh. Ally.
- Oh, I forgot to Hey.
- Dave?
- We're okay. - God, you're fine.
- GATA: Good, Ally, we good, yo.
- Top 20 on Spotify, baby.
- Do you guys have any idea
what the past four hours has been like?
I What are you doing?
Y-You need to stop and tell
- everyone that you are not dead.
- No, we don't have to
- You cannot let anybody
- This is not important at all.
- (DISCONNECT TONE)
- I'm sorry, it's just not.
- EMMA: What are you doing?
- We need cash. Does anybody have cash?
If we're gonna stay at a motel tonight,
we can't use a credit
card. They're traceable.
What is the issue if it's traceable?
You said we're doing nothing wrong.
We're not doing anything wrong.
And if traceability's an issue,
we were just all on the phone.
That-That's two different things.
Two different systems.
Hey, I think I see a
pawnshop over there.
Pawnshop.
Does anybody have anything we can pawn?
I ain't got shit.
Oh (SCOFFS)
Come on, man.
Y'all fucking tripping, dawg.
(PHONES CHIMING)
MIKE: This is crazy, man.
(CRUNCHING)
DAVE: Look who's catching up.
God, you sound like
you're eating gravel.
- So loud.
- You know,
if I wasn't on Adderall,
I would be, like, 5,000 pounds.
I can't stop.
H-E-A-R-say, why, that's hearsay ♪
DAVE: 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
'cause I knew he'd be a perfect fit
for it, and he didn't even respond.
Get that shit taken down.
- Have the label take it down.
- No, Dave, this could be huge.
Trying to ride my fucking death?
- No
- 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-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 am telling you that I've been
running the numbers all day long,
and Penith as 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 gonna 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.
- 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?
(LAUGHS) Look at me.
But that's lying.
- What's lying?
- That's lying.
If we don't come out and
Uh, you said we agreed
- on tomorrow morning.
- There is no lie to be told.
You didn't say anything,
you didn't do anything.
- I got to look this shit up.
- Dave, 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.
- (SIGHS)
I got to 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 got to sit here like
Anne Frank all night?
You know, you kind of look
like her when you shave. I
- Oh, my God!
- What?
- What happened?
- Drake.
Drake liked my last tweet.
- Mm. Mm.
- He knows who I am. I have to DM him.
- No! Dave, don't-don't do that, Dave.
- I have to respond.
- I'm DMing LeBron!
- Dave! Do you want your dreams to come true?
- I have to DM these men.
- Do you want your dreams to come true?
- God!
- 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 gonna be watching
when you decide to reveal, finally,
who the real Lil Dicky is.
Uh-huh.
(LAUGHS SOFTLY) Okay.
I'm on it. Good fucking shit, Mike.
(DOOR CLOSES)
(EXHALES)
(PHONE CHIMES)
ROBYN (OVER PHONE): Dave.
It's, um, it's, um, it's me.
It's it's Robyn. Um
And
(SIGHS)
I can't believe (RAGGED INHALE)
Ugh, this is stupid.
(LINE RINGING)
(NEW YORK ACCENT): Hello. Yeah, hi.
(CLEARS THROAT) Is this Keith?
Keith, it's Jim Morera.
Yeah, I'm an attorney.
I represent David Burd.
And Mike Spera. 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.
Uh, 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 gonna be supporting
Dave's album posthumously?
Uh-huh.
The-the boys said, you know,
there was something about radio, maybe.
That they'd 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 ex pensive. I
didn't want you to lose them.
Thanks.
LD.
What's that stand for?
Uh, Landon Donovan.
Landon Donovan is an
American soccer player.
The U. S. men's team.
Ah.
USA. USA.
♪
DAVE: 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."
Uh, what is this?
Yeah. Very important. Got
to keep this top of mind.
LeBron is listening. We got
to remember that, it's
Who is LeBron? Is he a Nazi?
No. No. Anne, you are safe here.
Uh, 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?
So, every fact that exists in life
can be obtained,
like, through this box.
And through this box,
you can communicate
with everybody
on Earth, pretty much.
Y-You know, when I was
hiding from the Nazis
LeBron could unfollow me at any moment,
which is, like, a
really troubling reality.
And-and that's something
that I need to, like,
keep in mind as well. Because
I really got to 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've even
fucking properly contemplated
my exit strategy.
You know. Fuck. 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.
Uh, what I mean by that is not, like,
end my life in the way that you were
clipped. I mean, like, uh,
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
- I-In a camp.
- In a camp.
So it was, like, a slow death.
I-I kind of always imagined,
like, people running up and,
like, Osama bin Laden-style,
just, like (MIMICS GUNFIRE)
- Uh, but
- (CLAPS HANDS)
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.
(PHONE CHIMES)
Oh, my God. They just added
six of my songs to RapCaviar.
That's 14 million new listeners.
Is that what you want?
Uh, listeners?
Yeah.
Uh, how many listeners is enough?
Uh
That's a big question, Anne.
But, uh, I don't know. You
can really never have too many.
But more listeners you have,
the more scrutiny. Right?
And scrutiny leads to feeling
like everything could just end,
you said. Right?
Very good memory, Ms. Frank.
It was ten seconds ago.
Uh, mm, true.
What is this? Uh, your shirt.
- "Whip"? What is this?
- Oh.
- Whip. Yeah, whip.
- Whip?
Uh, it's like a contemporary dance.
It's actually not
even that contemporary.
It's pretty old at
this point. But, uh
It's like, uh
I normally have to, like,
stand to do it well. But, uh
Hey, how did you deal
with all the scrutiny
as far as your diary?
Y-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 s I mean,
it's one of the most
popular books of all time.
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
Uh, how how did this 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.
Um
My father published
- my fucking diary?!
- Anne,
nobody came out of the Holocaust
looking better than you.
- (YELLS)
- Oh! Hey!
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 Holocau Uh
- (KEYS JANGLING)
- (DOORKNOB RATTLING)
- No! Anne, no, you're safe!
You're safe here! Where are you going?
(MUTTERING)
Hey, uh, we got to go.
Elz is over it. I almost
keyed a man in the face.
And-and Gata's ramping up real bad.
- Leave now?
- Yeah, we got to go.
We should go.
I bought a van, by the way.
- So it's I'll meet you out front with it.
- What?
We need to keep control
of the narrative.
- The narrative.
- Here, meet me out front.
(DOOR CLOSES)
♪
(EXHALES)
Being back in L. A., honestly, it's
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.
- (PHONE CHIMES)
Oh, that's-that's my phone.
Uh will you grab that?
- I don't want to
- Yeah.
Who is it?
Uh
your brother.
Oh. Put it down. I'll hit him later.
Okay. I
I read it.
About your dad.
Yeah. Yeah, my our
dad has, uh, Alzheimer's.
It's a 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
I-I'd take him to L. A., put
him in one of those (SNIFFLES)
you know, assisted living homes
as soon as the tour's done.
And
the tour's done. (SCOFFS)
On one hand, you know, he's
never gonna remember being a,
you know, emotionally abusive asshole.
But he's also never gonna 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.
- (SIGHS)
- I'm serious.
- Oh, Dave. Come on, man.
It's fine. It's totally good.
I honestly, I don't
even want to think about it.
'Cause 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 gonna 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?
- DAVE: It's fucking crazy.
- You just got to lay low for two more days.
- 48 hours.
- Please lay low.
I'm not No one's gonna see me.
And then
everything that you've ever wanted.
- DAVE: That's crazy.
- You called it.
Do you remember that
you remember that email
that you sent me before you
uploaded your first video?
That destiny manifesto?
Oh, my God. I forgot all about that.
R-Read it to me.
- You want me to pull it up
- Right now. Do it.
DAVE: All right. Fuck it.
(CLEARS THROAT) "Lil Dicky"
isn't just my rap name.
It's my actual destiny."
- It's so stupid.
- (CHUCKLES)
"I'm taking my biggest insecurity
- parentheses, my penis"
- Yeah.
" 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."
MIKE: 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?
- Of yeah.
- MAN: Yo, what?
- WOMAN (LAUGHS): Oh, my God.
Yo, it's Lil Dicky, bro.
- He's still alive?
- He's alive.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
♪
(CHEERING)
I feel brand-new ♪
I feel brand-new ♪
I cannot move ♪
I'm feeling brand-new ♪
You cannot say what I can't do ♪
I feel so brand-new ♪
I feel so brand-new. ♪
DAVE: I've never been on tour before,
so, you know, I didn't
even know what to expect,
but I imagined 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,
like, in my studio by myself.
I mean, every night I'm out
there and I really do, like,
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.
A-And, like, on top
of that, every moment
I'm, like, being filmed and scrutinized,
and, like, if I say
the wrong thing onstage
or do the wrong thing, who
knows what would happen?
A-And I thought this tour
was gonna be, like, me living,
but it really just
feels like I'm surviving.
I need to rebrand
'cause I'm breaking down.
(SIGHS) 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.
(DAVE SIGHS)
We'll be okay.
Think about Lincoln.
Everything that he went through.
Stay strong mentally.
'Cause we're gonna get
through this as a unit.
Honestly, I just don't even
know what this doc is anymore.
Like, it feels half-baked
if we're stopping now.
Look, life isn't all
about content, okay?
Everything is content, dawg.
No, Gata, not everything is content.
I am not content.
I'm not content.
(SIGHS) How does Jack Harlow
How does this guy's
followers go up like this?
- EMMA: Comparison is the thief of joy.
- (PHONE CHIMES)
DAVE: None of those fucking
phrasings today, okay? Those idioms?
They're ill-kempt. Do I need
to wear this mic anymore,
- now that you're not interested in
-
- EMMA: Who cares?
- GATA: Come on, man.
Okay. 1:58, Dave.
Let's go. We got to go.
- We got to get ready for this call.
- The call's at 2:00. I need the two minutes.
No, 'cause I need to connect
to the Wi-Fi because there's
no signal out here, Dave.
- Wi-Fi connects instantaneously.
- So we need to be prepared.
- 'Cause they're gonna call any minute now.
- Look, just 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. I love my fans.
- You can't feel bad for the fans.
They're gonna get a full refund.
Plus, your fans would rather
- have you happy and healthy.
- (PHONE RINGING)
- I would hope so.
- And look.
- And look. What did I say?
- They're calling.
- And they're early. You're
- That's why I do what I do.
- You're buttoned up. Hey.
- Yo! You got Mike and Dave.
- Both.
- KEITH (OVER PHONE): Yeah, it's Keith.
Oh, Keith. The big dog.
What do we owe this
pleasure to you uh
- What's up?
- Hi.
Yeah, shut the fuck up.
What you idiots are
proposing is outlandish.
Dave here. (CHUCKLES)
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 gonna be talking for hours.
- Yeah. It's dirty.
You refused to promote
your album at the VMAs.
You did a song with
Gator? Fucking Gator?
- It's Gata.
- Yeah, it's Whoa!
- Whoa! Whoa!
- (METAL SCREECHING)
Sorry, folks. Engine's
being frisky, okay?
KEITH: Am I on
speakerphone? Take me off.
MIKE: No. Uh, sorry about that, Keith.
Let me 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.
Whoa. You're gonna get litigious?
Yes, and to put it even more simply,
we just don't believe in
this Lil Dicky shit anymore.
(LAUGHS): Okay.
That is 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 speakerphone now.
Hey, Keith. Yeah, okay,
- l-look, let us come back with a plan
- I can't hear.
- to show you that this can be way more
- I can't hear.
cost-efficient. Okay?
I am going to take care of this.
I can prove to you
this is a-a well-run machine, you know?
Let-let me show you that we
can get our shit together here.
I promise you, even if it
seems bad now, it's not
Holy shit!
(SOFTLY): What the fuck?
- What the fuck?
- Cliff.
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 wires down
in the undercarriage.
What the fuck are you
talking about, bro?
We could have fucking died.
- All my shit is on there, bro!
- (SCREAMS)
- We're alive. We're alive.
- You better ask somebody about me
- My fucking laptop!
- My God, we are so lucky.
How much does a fucking bus cost?
- (MOANS)
- I ain't worrying about that shit.
We could have died. Like
fuck all this Lil Dicky fucking shit.
Man, this some real Bad
Boys shit right here.
I'm about to get this on the Story.
IG, look
Fuck. Ain't no goddamn service.
♪
MIKE: 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
CLIFF: This is all y'all's fault.
Y'all left the food that
draw the rats to the food
that caused the explosion.
ELZ: Cliff, if you don't
hurry the fuck up
Gata, we have to save that.
Are we really in that type of situation?
- Yes.
- (SCOFFS)
I'm trying to cool down, man.
It's hot as a motherfucker out here.
(BIRDS SQUAWKING)
Who's Lil Dicky?
MAN: I don't know.
But R. I. P., Lil Dicky.
Wait.
What?
Whoa.
- I'm gonna sit in that booth.
- (EMMA SIGHING)
Oh, my God. Got food.
Ugh. I need to wash my hands.
- I'm so dirty.
- EMMA: Oh. (SIGHS)
Finally, Wi-Fi.
- (GROANING)
- Oh, you got the Wi-Fi?
I don't know how the Jews
did all the fucking
traveling and the wandering.
Hey, will you share
the password, please?
GATA: I just shared it with you, Mike.
You need to get me water 'cause
I've never been more thirsty.
- (PHONES CHIMING)
- Yo. What the fuck?
- Wait. Are you guys seeing this?
- Nah, nah.
WAITER: What drinks can I get you guys?
- Just give us a minute, please.
- GATA: I mean, bro
- DAVE: What's going on?
- this shit ain't cool, man.
- EMMA: This is insane.
- Is it another mass shooting?
Dude, dude, dude, dude,
dude, dude, dude, dude, dude.
Everyone thinks you're dead.
- Thinks I'm what?
- Dead.
I'm getting "Sorry for your loss" texts,
I'm getting calls. I
have 90 unanswered texts
that are just like, "Yo, sorry, bro,
didn't know what was going
on, bro." Like, what the fuck?
MAN (OVER VIDEO): R. I. P., Lil Dicky.
DAVE: That's my sex doll legs.
How many Instagram followers
did you have this morning?
Uh Wait, I don't keep track.
Like 847,000 or something?
Well, you've got 2.9 million now.
No, I don't.
2.9 million in, like, three hours?
ELZ: Everybody thinks you're dead.
It's the number one trending
topic on Twitter, bro.
- ELZ: My mom has texted me, bro.
- That's crazy, man.
- ELZ: I don't know what the fuck to do.
- DAVE: Oh, my God. #RIPLilDicky?
Holy shit. This is
exactly the story I needed.
Okay, I need the Wi-Fi right now.
- Someone give me the Wi-Fi.
- ELZ: Okay, yeah. I need to
Dave, can I talk to you
outside for a second?
Yeah, give me a second, I just
want to see what's going on
EMMA: What are you
what are you doing?
- No.
- Talk outside, just for two seconds.
- What are you doing? Stop messing
- Real fast.
Outside. Outside. Real fast.
Outside, outside, outside.
- Give me my phone right now.
- Just one minute. Please.
- Give me my phone.
- GATA: Mike, you always tripping, man.
I'll go.
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.
- Yeah. Thank you.
Or we don't
- we don't at all.
- What?
Just-just for a short amount of
time, a little period of time,
- we do nothing.
- I don't understand.
I'm not gonna let people think I'm dead.
My mom thinks I'm dead.
- My Give me the phone.
- Listen. No, no, no, Dave.
- I have to call my parents, man.
- Shh
- My mom thinks I'm dead.
- Listen. Listen.
Listen to me for two seconds, please.
Okay, just Your
streams are up. Way up.
- Give me my phone.
- 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 this, man.
- Elz. Think about Elz.
- We're not doing this.
I mean, he's got pub
on most of those songs.
He produced almost the whole thing.
He's broke as shit.
GATA: Trending right now.
On Twitter. Everywhere.
ELZ: That's crazy.
Or Gata? Gata's streams
through the roof.
- It's absurd, what's happening right now.
- Okay, they're not
Even Emma, the documentary, it's like
- think about the eyes that gets.
- It's #RIPLilDicky that's trending.
That's my name, okay?
I'm gonna deal with the fallout.
It's already fucking trending, dude.
The Internet has it, it's gone.
It-it exists, Dave. You know?
And at some point, you're
gonna come forward and go,
"Hey, I'm not dead, obviously."
- That's gonna be weird, and that's gonna be
- 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
Y-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.
This is 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 on?
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.
Oh, what 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, I don't even
have to check Twitter.
Why did I I didn't have to know
- I don't even have to know about this.
- No.
I don't know.
Look, I've
I got to tweet that I'm alive.
I have to tweet that I'm
alive. Give me my phone.
- I understand.
- Hold on. Hold on.
Got to figure out what I'm gonna tweet.
"LeBron"
- LeBron.
- LeBron follows me?
LeBron Raymone James follows you.
Oh, it's not the real LeBron?
What? Yes, no.
- His middle name is Raymone?
- No Yes, yes!
- That's LeBron James. Yeah.
- This is LeBron?
(CRYING SOFTLY)
It's okay, buddy.
I know, I know.
I know. This is a big moment.
(DAVE WHIMPERS)
- I know.
- It's like
- I worked so hard.
- You did.
And LeBron Raymone
James recognized that.
Okay?
But think about this, dude.
I mean, who's next now?
- Drake? It's like
- Oh, man.
- Oh, my God.
- (EXHALES)
This is fucking
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.
'Cause, you know, we got to 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 Raymone James!
DAVE: I'm alive.
♪
- MIKE: You guys, we got to go. Come on.
- Fine.
- Let's go, please.
- CLIFF: Have to eat.
- EMMA: So annoying.
- Come on. Thank you. Thank you, thank you.
- Thank you.
- GATA: Man, let me get my phone, man.
(DOOR CLOSES)
Hi, honey.
Mom, ugh, 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-hang on a second.
Your father just dropped
potatoes, I couldn't hear you.
- I just dropped one potato.
- What
The Have you guys not been
on your phone all day today?
No, we were playing bridge
all morning. What's going on?
It's a very complicated situation,
so just don't ask all
your usual questions,
but, essentially, the bus blew up
Oh, my God.
- Just listen, please.
- What happened?
I Shh, I can't hear.
Everyone is okay,
but there's this, like,
Internet rumor going
around that I'm dead.
- Who's dead?
- What? What happened?
Did somebody commit suicide?
Look, I'm gonna 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 Mendelsons tonight.
No. Cancel. You have to cancel.
It's hard to reschedule
with the Mendelsons.
They live in Conshohocken.
What, we have to reschedule
with the Mendelsons?
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.
- CAROL: Okay. I don't understand,
- but I never do.
- Love you both, drive safe.
- See you soon. Bye.
- Okay, I love you
Mike, you call your dad, bro?
- Um
- ELZ: I just had
the strangest phone call with my sister.
DAVE: This is so weird.
This whole thing is so weird.
They sad as hell in my hood,
too, man, but I told 'em we good.
- You know why, LD?
- Huh?
Because we top 20 on Spotify, my guy.
Okay, I told Ally the deal,
and she needs to hear everyone's voices.
- We're top 20?
- ALLY (OVER PHONE): Hello?
- Ally's on the phone.
- Oh. Ally.
- Oh, I forgot to Hey.
- Dave?
- We're okay. - God, you're fine.
- GATA: Good, Ally, we good, yo.
- Top 20 on Spotify, baby.
- Do you guys have any idea
what the past four hours has been like?
I What are you doing?
Y-You need to stop and tell
- everyone that you are not dead.
- No, we don't have to
- You cannot let anybody
- This is not important at all.
- (DISCONNECT TONE)
- I'm sorry, it's just not.
- EMMA: What are you doing?
- We need cash. Does anybody have cash?
If we're gonna stay at a motel tonight,
we can't use a credit
card. They're traceable.
What is the issue if it's traceable?
You said we're doing nothing wrong.
We're not doing anything wrong.
And if traceability's an issue,
we were just all on the phone.
That-That's two different things.
Two different systems.
Hey, I think I see a
pawnshop over there.
Pawnshop.
Does anybody have anything we can pawn?
I ain't got shit.
Oh (SCOFFS)
Come on, man.
Y'all fucking tripping, dawg.
(PHONES CHIMING)
MIKE: This is crazy, man.
(CRUNCHING)
DAVE: Look who's catching up.
God, you sound like
you're eating gravel.
- So loud.
- You know,
if I wasn't on Adderall,
I would be, like, 5,000 pounds.
I can't stop.
H-E-A-R-say, why, that's hearsay ♪
DAVE: 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
'cause I knew he'd be a perfect fit
for it, and he didn't even respond.
Get that shit taken down.
- Have the label take it down.
- No, Dave, this could be huge.
Trying to ride my fucking death?
- No
- 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-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 am telling you that I've been
running the numbers all day long,
and Penith as 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 gonna 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.
- 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?
(LAUGHS) Look at me.
But that's lying.
- What's lying?
- That's lying.
If we don't come out and
Uh, you said we agreed
- on tomorrow morning.
- There is no lie to be told.
You didn't say anything,
you didn't do anything.
- I got to look this shit up.
- Dave, 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.
- (SIGHS)
I got to 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 got to sit here like
Anne Frank all night?
You know, you kind of look
like her when you shave. I
- Oh, my God!
- What?
- What happened?
- Drake.
Drake liked my last tweet.
- Mm. Mm.
- He knows who I am. I have to DM him.
- No! Dave, don't-don't do that, Dave.
- I have to respond.
- I'm DMing LeBron!
- Dave! Do you want your dreams to come true?
- I have to DM these men.
- Do you want your dreams to come true?
- God!
- 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 gonna be watching
when you decide to reveal, finally,
who the real Lil Dicky is.
Uh-huh.
(LAUGHS SOFTLY) Okay.
I'm on it. Good fucking shit, Mike.
(DOOR CLOSES)
(EXHALES)
(PHONE CHIMES)
ROBYN (OVER PHONE): Dave.
It's, um, it's, um, it's me.
It's it's Robyn. Um
And
(SIGHS)
I can't believe (RAGGED INHALE)
Ugh, this is stupid.
(LINE RINGING)
(NEW YORK ACCENT): Hello. Yeah, hi.
(CLEARS THROAT) Is this Keith?
Keith, it's Jim Morera.
Yeah, I'm an attorney.
I represent David Burd.
And Mike Spera. 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.
Uh, 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 gonna be supporting
Dave's album posthumously?
Uh-huh.
The-the boys said, you know,
there was something about radio, maybe.
That they'd 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 ex pensive. I
didn't want you to lose them.
Thanks.
LD.
What's that stand for?
Uh, Landon Donovan.
Landon Donovan is an
American soccer player.
The U. S. men's team.
Ah.
USA. USA.
♪
DAVE: 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."
Uh, what is this?
Yeah. Very important. Got
to keep this top of mind.
LeBron is listening. We got
to remember that, it's
Who is LeBron? Is he a Nazi?
No. No. Anne, you are safe here.
Uh, 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?
So, every fact that exists in life
can be obtained,
like, through this box.
And through this box,
you can communicate
with everybody
on Earth, pretty much.
Y-You know, when I was
hiding from the Nazis
LeBron could unfollow me at any moment,
which is, like, a
really troubling reality.
And-and that's something
that I need to, like,
keep in mind as well. Because
I really got to 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've even
fucking properly contemplated
my exit strategy.
You know. Fuck. 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.
Uh, what I mean by that is not, like,
end my life in the way that you were
clipped. I mean, like, uh,
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
- I-In a camp.
- In a camp.
So it was, like, a slow death.
I-I kind of always imagined,
like, people running up and,
like, Osama bin Laden-style,
just, like (MIMICS GUNFIRE)
- Uh, but
- (CLAPS HANDS)
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.
(PHONE CHIMES)
Oh, my God. They just added
six of my songs to RapCaviar.
That's 14 million new listeners.
Is that what you want?
Uh, listeners?
Yeah.
Uh, how many listeners is enough?
Uh
That's a big question, Anne.
But, uh, I don't know. You
can really never have too many.
But more listeners you have,
the more scrutiny. Right?
And scrutiny leads to feeling
like everything could just end,
you said. Right?
Very good memory, Ms. Frank.
It was ten seconds ago.
Uh, mm, true.
What is this? Uh, your shirt.
- "Whip"? What is this?
- Oh.
- Whip. Yeah, whip.
- Whip?
Uh, it's like a contemporary dance.
It's actually not
even that contemporary.
It's pretty old at
this point. But, uh
It's like, uh
I normally have to, like,
stand to do it well. But, uh
Hey, how did you deal
with all the scrutiny
as far as your diary?
Y-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 s I mean,
it's one of the most
popular books of all time.
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
Uh, how how did this 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.
Um
My father published
- my fucking diary?!
- Anne,
nobody came out of the Holocaust
looking better than you.
- (YELLS)
- Oh! Hey!
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 Holocau Uh
- (KEYS JANGLING)
- (DOORKNOB RATTLING)
- No! Anne, no, you're safe!
You're safe here! Where are you going?
(MUTTERING)
Hey, uh, we got to go.
Elz is over it. I almost
keyed a man in the face.
And-and Gata's ramping up real bad.
- Leave now?
- Yeah, we got to go.
We should go.
I bought a van, by the way.
- So it's I'll meet you out front with it.
- What?
We need to keep control
of the narrative.
- The narrative.
- Here, meet me out front.
(DOOR CLOSES)
♪
(EXHALES)
Being back in L. A., honestly, it's
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.
- (PHONE CHIMES)
Oh, that's-that's my phone.
Uh will you grab that?
- I don't want to
- Yeah.
Who is it?
Uh
your brother.
Oh. Put it down. I'll hit him later.
Okay. I
I read it.
About your dad.
Yeah. Yeah, my our
dad has, uh, Alzheimer's.
It's a 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
I-I'd take him to L. A., put
him in one of those (SNIFFLES)
you know, assisted living homes
as soon as the tour's done.
And
the tour's done. (SCOFFS)
On one hand, you know, he's
never gonna remember being a,
you know, emotionally abusive asshole.
But he's also never gonna 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.
- (SIGHS)
- I'm serious.
- Oh, Dave. Come on, man.
It's fine. It's totally good.
I honestly, I don't
even want to think about it.
'Cause 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 gonna 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?
- DAVE: It's fucking crazy.
- You just got to lay low for two more days.
- 48 hours.
- Please lay low.
I'm not No one's gonna see me.
And then
everything that you've ever wanted.
- DAVE: That's crazy.
- You called it.
Do you remember that
you remember that email
that you sent me before you
uploaded your first video?
That destiny manifesto?
Oh, my God. I forgot all about that.
R-Read it to me.
- You want me to pull it up
- Right now. Do it.
DAVE: All right. Fuck it.
(CLEARS THROAT) "Lil Dicky"
isn't just my rap name.
It's my actual destiny."
- It's so stupid.
- (CHUCKLES)
"I'm taking my biggest insecurity
- parentheses, my penis"
- Yeah.
" 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."
MIKE: 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?
- Of yeah.
- MAN: Yo, what?
- WOMAN (LAUGHS): Oh, my God.
Yo, it's Lil Dicky, bro.
- He's still alive?
- He's alive.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
♪
(CHEERING)
I feel brand-new ♪
I feel brand-new ♪
I cannot move ♪
I'm feeling brand-new ♪
You cannot say what I can't do ♪
I feel so brand-new ♪
I feel so brand-new. ♪