DDG kept his cool when a stranger on the street doubted whether streaming is “hard work” and questioned its potential to earn “millions.”
A clip from DDG’s Twitch stream, also shared on the Shade Room, showed the 28-year-old rapper and his posse set up outside of a Dior storefront. A man and woman walked up, exchanged pleasantries with the group, and posed for the camera before appearing to move on.
But the man later approached DDG on the street, telling him, “This is what kids think work is, what you guys are doing.”
DDG replied, “It’s hard work. You don’t think it’s hard work?”
“I think it’s hard work,” the man conceded, “But I think I’m driving a Bentley, and you guys are driving a Chevrolet.”
The statement fell flat, considering DDG recently bought his “dream car," a Ferrari F8 Spider, for which used models start around $400,000. A Bentley, meanwhile, starts at around $200,000.
“Whatchu mean?” DDG prompted, and the stranger to doubled down on claiming streaming isn’t a lucrative business.
“OK, if I work hard, and you work equally as hard, the question is how much do we make for that work,” the man said. “OK, so, I make millions, so is this gonna make you guys millions?”
DDG, whose net worth is rumored to be more than $8 million, calmly refuted this.
“I probably make more money than you … How much money do you make?” he said.
The man, bewilderingly, said he doesn’t “talk about” how much money he makes, despite starting the conversation in the first place. DDG then said he probably makes more money than the man, leading the stranger to offer an unsolicited lesson about “success.”
“You might. If that’s so, then good job, man,” he said. “Here’s my success lesson. Don’t pursue your passion, pursue your competence because competence becomes success, success becomes more success, and that becomes passion.”
Of course, DDG has already reached high echelons of success and fame with his rap and streaming careers. His 2020 track "Moonwalking in Calabasas" featuring Blueface reached double platinum, plus he has over 4 million YouTube subscribers, over 2 million Twitch followers, and nearly 7 million fans on Instagram.