(AllHipHop News) Philadelphia rapper Lil Dicky has built an online following from his comedic approach to making music. Dicky sometimes touches on racial issues like on his songs “White Crime” and “White Dude,” but some of the Jewish jokester’s quotes about race and Hip Hop culture have drawn criticism from former Das Racist member Himanshu “Heems” Suri.
Heems, a son of Indian immigrants, took to Twitter to address Dicky directly. The two performers then had a back-and-forth exchange online. Read Heems and Lil Dicky’s tweets below.
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rappers like Lil Dicky who think they're ground breaking because they're middle class white and have "more to lose" are racist trash.
— HEEMY HEEMS (@HIMANSHU) April 15, 2015
@HoodieAllen he said "I lose a lot by becoming a rapper I could work in advertising thus I should be respected more than black rappers"
— HEEMY HEEMS (@HIMANSHU) April 15, 2015
@HIMANSHU @HoodieAllen when did i say that? are you talking about the noisey article? because that was flagrantly misquoted and paraphrased
— Yung Man (@lildickytweets) April 17, 2015
@lildickytweets Rosenberg interview you sd you have more to lose because you could actually get a job. maybe paraphrasing here.
— HEEMY HEEMS (@HIMANSHU) April 17, 2015
@HIMANSHU can you show me the part where i say that? like, time code the link and send it to me…because i don't recall that happening.
— Yung Man (@lildickytweets) April 17, 2015
.@LewisAbbiss @lildickytweets u right on that he never sd deserves to be respected more than black rappers/did say "stupid asians/black hoes
— HEEMY HEEMS (@HIMANSHU) April 17, 2015
@HIMANSHU don't accuse some1 publicly of being racist that youve never met, based off of something you read on the internet, that's clownish
— Yung Man (@lildickytweets) April 17, 2015
@lildickytweets that wasnt chu who rapped the words "stupid asians" playing 2k12 and rhymed Mac Pro with "black ho" ?
— HEEMY HEEMS (@HIMANSHU) April 17, 2015
@HIMANSHU playing a stupid asian, yes. an individual asian can be stupid as can a white person and a black person. in this case asian rhymed
— Yung Man (@lildickytweets) April 17, 2015
@HIMANSHU and calling a black girl black is racist? you're really reaching and please don't forget about your initial false claims either.
— Yung Man (@lildickytweets) April 17, 2015
@lildickytweets im an artist and a critic. my opinion is youre bad at rapping and think having white privilege is stunting. racist too.
— HEEMY HEEMS (@HIMANSHU) April 17, 2015
@HIMANSHU i just wish you were more responsible with your allegations, everything you've claimed has been based off of lies, or non issues
— Yung Man (@lildickytweets) April 17, 2015
@lildickytweets you don't decide what's a non-issue when it comes to race
— HEEMY HEEMS (@HIMANSHU) April 17, 2015
@HIMANSHU saying i'm beating an asian in NBA 2k12, and calling a black person black (i call girls hos in my songs as satire) is not racist.
— Yung Man (@lildickytweets) April 17, 2015
.@lildickytweets if you think you can teach me what is and what isn't racially insensitive you're wildly mistaken bruh. thas not you.
— HEEMY HEEMS (@HIMANSHU) April 17, 2015
@HIMANSHU no one said it wasn't insensitive, it's just asinine to not see i'm parodying the insensitivity that is rap, intentionally.
— Yung Man (@lildickytweets) April 17, 2015
@HIMANSHU i need more characters to have this conversation. i'm happy to have it, let me know. asians can be stupid. girls can be black.
— Yung Man (@lildickytweets) April 17, 2015
dude implying I don't understand satire is possibly the best part. educating @lildickytweets and @VijayIngam has been exhaustin. #teachers
— HEEMY HEEMS (@HIMANSHU) April 17, 2015
"i am a satirical rapper, makin fun of the most absurd genre in the world." –@lildickytweets. that absurd genre the voice of my community.
— HEEMY HEEMS (@HIMANSHU) April 17, 2015
.@lildickytweets I get what you wanna do. I accidentally did it already. It's a bad idea. write your little sketches. leave rap alone.
— HEEMY HEEMS (@HIMANSHU) April 17, 2015
AY since u asked @lildickytweets this the interview where you claim you had everything to lose by rapping https://t.co/ICjfwhd1fv
— HEEMY HEEMS (@HIMANSHU) April 17, 2015
