00:00When I said that, I was like,
00:01gotta look at it and be like,
00:02bae, you the biggest.
00:03I just ended up calling it.
00:05Nowadays, it's about being catchy.
00:08I ain't got no depressed none,
00:09nothing for the girls.
00:10I got straight.
00:11Get that money, get that motion.
00:12It's 2025.
00:14We making boss moves this year.
00:15It went for real.
00:17It's your boy, Boss Man D-Lo,
00:18AKA Da Biggest Man,
00:19and this is Billboard News.
00:24What's up, y'all?
00:24It's Kyle Dennis,
00:25Staff Writer at Billboard,
00:26and I am here with Big Zaw himself,
00:28Boss Man D-Lo.
00:29How are you doing today, my guy?
00:31Chilling, bro.
00:32Chilling for sure.
00:33How's that New York weather treating you?
00:34I ain't gonna lie.
00:35It was cold, man.
00:36Cold.
00:37Cold at first.
00:38I'm skating now.
00:38It ain't that cold, but...
00:40You know, it's been a very,
00:41very productive year for you.
00:42Talk to us a little bit
00:43about Da Biggest Part 2.
00:45How did that song come together,
00:46and why did you think
00:47Da Biggest needed a sequel?
00:53I don't know, bro.
00:54I forgot how I even heard that beat.
00:57Man, I don't know,
00:57but it came on, and I just,
01:00you know, I felt the vibe
01:01to the beat at first.
01:02Yeah, it just woke me up,
01:03so I went in there,
01:05because, you know, I don't write.
01:06I just go in there and just,
01:07you know, go off the top.
01:08So when I said that,
01:10I was like, gotta look at it at me like,
01:11bae, you da biggest.
01:13I just ended up calling it that.
01:15For real, for real.
01:16That's how it went.
01:16You've had a crazy run of hits this year.
01:18Get in with me, Mr. Podscraper.
01:20Talk my shit.
01:21Shake that ass.
01:21Too slippery.
01:22Sports center.
01:23I could keep going.
01:24Did any of those surprise you
01:25by how big they became?
01:27All of them, to be real.
01:28Yeah.
01:35How big Get In With Me was, kind of.
01:37That was the most shocking one,
01:38because it was like,
01:39I put that song to the side,
01:41like, nah, I don't even like it like that.
01:43That was the most shocking song right there.
01:45When did it click for you
01:46that that song was really that big?
01:48I was shooting the video to Finesse,
01:50and I had just dropped the freestyle to it.
01:53So when I was seeing the numbers
01:54going up on Instagram,
01:55I was like, oh.
01:56But I'm shooting a video,
01:57so I can't really watch it, too.
01:59But every time I check it,
02:00it's going crazy and crazy.
02:02So I'm like, man,
02:03they really like that song, for real.
02:05You know, you have so many hits this year.
02:07Can you break down what your formula is
02:09for creating a hit song?
02:10You know, the first thing to making a song,
02:13you got to really think about, like,
02:15you know, what everybody else want to hear.
02:18It's not really what you want to hear.
02:21It's what you want to hear at the same time,
02:22but, you know,
02:23it's 90% what they want to hear,
02:25for real, for real.
02:26Nowadays, it's about being catchy.
02:29You know what I'm saying?
02:29You're going to say something that
02:31they can repeat,
02:32they can remember.
02:34You know what I'm saying?
02:34That's how you catch.
02:35When you're listening to different beats,
02:37what do you listen for?
02:38What catches your attention?
02:39It's more like the bass,
02:41and it's more like the, you know,
02:44the tune and the vibe that they got to it,
02:46and the tempo.
02:48Sometimes beats can be too fast.
02:50It's like, nah, that's too fast.
02:51But you got to have that right tempo,
02:53like, make you feel like you in the club,
02:56when the beat got,
02:57you feel like you in the club
02:58before you even put any type of lyrics on it.
03:01That's what you need to be, yeah.
03:03You know, you've worked with
03:04La Tyler,
03:05Ciara,
03:06Glorilla,
03:07so many amazing artists this year.
03:09Who's been your favorite artist to work with?
03:11I actually linked in the studio with
03:13it was Lil Shammy.
03:14Bruh, real genuine, real good dude.
03:16Like, you feel me?
03:17Like, good vibe, but funny, but funny as hell.
03:20Who else is on your list of dream collaborators?
03:22Right Now, Future,
03:25The Usher,
03:26The Weeknd,
03:28I know me and Wiz Khalifa,
03:30definitely supposed to get some, man.
03:32Soon.
03:32So you have in your album out,
03:34D'Lo Curry.
03:35What are you most excited for fans to hear
03:37about this project?
03:38I ain't really got too much of the,
03:41you know, for the ladies on there.
03:43You know what I'm saying?
03:45It's just, when they come out,
03:46it's just D'Lo Curry,
03:48you know what I'm saying?
03:48Ain't no hits, no, no, ain't no misses.
03:51So we going straight,
03:52foot on the gas,
03:54you know what I'm saying?
03:54I ain't got no depression,
03:56nothing for the girls.
03:57I got straight, you know what I'm saying?
03:58Get that money, get that emotion.
04:00It's 2025.
04:01We making boss movies, you know what I mean?
04:03For real.
04:04Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
04:05I gotta ask, you know,
04:07when it comes to making an album
04:08versus making a mixtape,
04:09do you have a different kind of pressure in the studio?
04:12Or is it just,
04:12I'm going to make the best piece
04:13that I can make regardless?
04:14Yeah, I'm just going to make what I make.
04:16I don't think about all that.
04:17I just make what I make.
04:19And I'll be turned either way.
04:21In the studio,
04:22I don't know how to,
04:23you feel me?
04:24Yeah.
04:24Anytime I go,
04:25I'm just trying to turn up every time.
04:27I'm trying to make a hit every time I touch the studio.
04:29You put out so much music this year.
04:31Where do you get your work ethic from?
04:32Remembering where you was,
04:34you know what I'm saying?
04:34Just remembering what it was.
04:36Like, it was nothing,
04:39you know what I'm saying?
04:40And when I was grounding,
04:42I was crawling at something
04:43that was basically impossible to see.
04:46Like, I didn't even see it.
04:48So when it actually happens,
04:49like, nah, I can't go back.
04:51I got mama to feed,
04:53daddy to feed,
04:53you know what I'm saying?
04:54For real.
04:54Yeah.
04:55So ain't no going back.
04:56So the title of the album
04:57pulls some inspiration from Steph Curry.
05:00Is he in your all-time top five
05:02for basketball players?
05:03For sure.
05:03For sure?
05:04Who else is in that top five?
05:05Kyrie,
05:06Kevin Durant,
05:07Greek Freak,
05:08Anthony Edward.
05:10You teamed up with the Sports Center
05:12to announce the album,
05:13and they really talked you up.
05:14Like, you were a hot new recruit.
05:15It was a really great sports
05:16and hip-hop crossover moment.
05:18How did that come together?
05:19I don't know, bro.
05:20Just probably my music
05:21and just how I just reference sports
05:23and all that, you know, all the time.
05:26Plus me, like,
05:27I used to play basketball, so...
05:28What position?
05:29Point guard.
05:31Now that I'm rapping,
05:32I kind of felt like it just go hand-to-hand,
05:35just how I'm talking,
05:36like, you know what I'm saying?
05:36Like, when you snapping the streets,
05:38when you get a new chain,
05:39new car, new anything,
05:41that's like dunking.
05:42You're dunking on somebody for real.
05:44You feel me?
05:44Somebody could be hating on you out there,
05:46you just dunking on them.
05:47Do you have any plans
05:48to tour D.Lo Curry next year?
05:50We're going to go on tour.
05:51You know, we're going to go on tour shortly.
05:53That's shit.
05:54We just plan for it to go number one.
05:56We're trying to go diamond.
05:57We're trying to do what we need to do.
05:58That's it.
05:59So what does a D.Lo Curry show
06:01actually look like?
06:02What can fans expect to see at the tour?
06:04I'm going to put on a show,
06:05you know what I'm saying?
06:05So, like, at my first tour,
06:08Mr. Beat the Road tour,
06:09that was like, you know,
06:10we had the money machine
06:14out of the little blower kid
06:15grabbing all the money and shit.
06:17You know, we just...
06:17We're going to keep it going, man.
06:19You know what I'm saying?
06:19We're going to have the kids
06:20involved.
06:21I know that all the kids
06:22like my music,
06:23so they're going to get a chance
06:24to win money, prizes, all that.
06:27I'm going to put on a show every time.
06:29Yeah, man, I want to put...
06:30I want you to enjoy the show.
06:31We'll be out there.
06:32For sure.
06:33For sure.
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