Progressive Commercial Shower Sessions | Duckwrth | Interview: My Face On A Billboard spot commercial 2024

VIDEO Progressive Shower Sessions | Duckwrth | Interview: My Face On A Billboard TV commercial 2020 • How do you know when you’ve ‘made it’? For songwriter and rapper Duckwrth, the moment came when he saw his face on billboard. He tells Grammy winner St. Vincent all about it, but confesses he should’ve told his mom first. 00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:02 00:03 So tell me when you first knew that you made it. 00:08 I guess, recently. 00:11 I got a billboard off of Sunset and Alvarado. 00:16 It's tight. 00:17 It's just-- It's for this project I did 00:18 called "I'm Ugly." 00:20 So it's a big picture of me like, smiling, and over my eyes 00:24 it says, "I'm ugly." 00:25 So-- 00:26 And did your parents see it? 00:28 Yeah, my mom. 00:29 My mom, she actually called me in anger. 00:33 She said, "So I heard through the 00:34 "grapevine that you have a billboard, 00:36 and you did not let me know." 00:38 [ST. VINCENT GASPS] 00:39 I was like, "Oh, I'm sorry, mom. 00:40 "I've been doing a lot lately." 00:42 She's like, "That ain't no excuse. 00:44 "You should have let me know." 00:45 And she was like, "I'm proud of you. 00:46 "We're gonna have to go ahead and see that." 00:48 And we drove down at night-time, 00:50 and she saw it, 00:51 and she kept looking at me. 00:52 And she was in disbelief that I was here and there-- 00:56 That's so sweet. 00:57 --at the same time. It was tight. 00:59 It was a moment, you know? 01:00 I didn't really graduate from college much. 01:03 So it's like that's, like, my, like, diploma, 01:06 you know, or it's like winning a Grammy. 01:07 [BUMPS ARM] 01:08 It's like...Oops! 01:09 Winning a Grammy is like my diploma. 01:11 So that's those little moments. - advertisement spot 2020