BossMan Dlow’s 2024 was filled with back to back hits, and he ended the year with the album, ‘Dlow Curry.’ The rapper shares how he plans to tour ‘Dlow Curry,’ his secret to creating hits, why he felt the need to create "The Biggest Pt. 2" and more!
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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.