DDG is continuing to show off his “real voice,” this time in the official music video for his new single “Maybach Curtains” — check it out below.
Released on Wednesday (December 14), the Ronnie Lewis-directed video opens with DDG using the deep bass voice he showed off last month during an interview to rap the song’s chorus. Scenes of DDG hanging out with a woman are warped into the video.
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“He bought her Gucci, I’m finna go buy her a Birkin/ Spoiling women and taking them shopping/ When I’m tripping I cut off a bitch and return it/ DDG popping these n-gas gon hear it when I drop it,” DDG raps in his “real voice.”
The video and song then speeds up to a regular pace, where DDG uses his rapping voice while taking his woman out for the day. He takes her shopping for new clothes and out to eat at the popular restaurant Fogo De Chao before the video ends with them on their way to close out their night.
DDG first revealed his “real voice” during an interview with the Dope As Usual podcast. The pod’s host, Dope As Yola, said they had received an alarming amount of messages from fans prior to DDG’s arrival that said they should ask him about his “real voice.”
DDG confirmed it was real, before switching into a deep booming baritone voice that stunned the pod’s hosts.
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The internet couldn’t believe if DDG was telling the truth, so he ended up putting out a vlog titled “The Truth About DDG Real Voice” posted to his YouTube account where he explained why fans have gone all this time without knowing how he really sounds.
“I did like, a podcast a little bit ago and I exposed my real voice – and this just goes to show why I don’t use it. I just get real insecure, I don’t like to really, like, expose myself like that,” DDG said. “I like to stay low-key and just be who I am. And a lot of people be like, ‘Damn, why don’t you just talk in your real voice or rap in your real voice?’ I just feel like it’s too mu’fuckin deep, so I be trying to like, talk regular.”
He went on to say that he feels the voice he’s been using is more relatable to fans, and that the deeper, real voice would garner more jokes than anything.
“It’s just easier for me to grow as a musical artist, creator and shit,” he said. “I just feel like if I use my deep voice, a lot of y’all wouldn’t take me seriously, and it’d be like, funny. I see a lot of people laughing about it and shit, and that’s just like, that’s why I don’t like really using it like that. A lot of muthafuckers take that shit like it’s a muthafuckin’ joke, but it’s just me like, opening up.”
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In September, the Pontiac, Michigan native shared his 12-track album It’s Not Me It’s You, which features Gunna, Polo G, NLE Choppa, Babyface Ray, and Kevin Gates.
