- ♪ Respect what we built ♪ - It's rap that I can understand.
- ♪ I'm Kanye West ♪ - Huh?!
What's Kanye got to do with this?
♪ (ragtime intro) ♪
- (reporter) Millions in California are dealing
with the dangers of extreme heat and rapidly spreading wildfires.
- Yes. And this is a problem. - I had a friend that says
there's more fires in California than he's ever seen!
- (reporter) 103 degrees in downtown Los Angeles.
- Oh yeah. Tell me about it. - (reporter) As climate change
continues to yield record temperatures. (car honking)
- Climate change, pollution... - Pollution and traffic, ugh!
Reminds me of my everyday travels. - Wait a minute. All that trash.
- Oh. Oh, dear.
- Oh, I know what this is. I've seen this.
I saw something on television about it,
and I only saw the animated part.
- "Earth." - (man) ...overheated or something.
- Pretty important place. - It's Lil... Dicky.
- Bunch of kids bullying another kid.
- Oh! You little ruffians.
- Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! No good.
- (boy) Pick it up, dork!
- There he is! - (Lil Dicky) What did you just say?
- That's Lil Dicky. I did a video with him.
- (FBE) Really?! What was the video called?
- Yeah, it was called "Molly feat."
- (FBE) What'd you play? I was the father of the bride.
- (Lil Dicky) What did you just say?
- (boy) I said, "Pick it up, dork." - Is all this necessary
for music videos? (chuckles) - (boy 2) Are you Lil Dicky?
- (Lil Dicky) Yeah. - And who is that?
- (Lil Dicky) Hello. - (boy) Yo, Lil Dicky,
my bro thinks you suck! - Oh, boy.
- (boy 2) Ay, suck my butt, Lil Dicky! - No, he didn't.
- (Lil Dicky) How about you take that perfectly round head
and suck my butt? How about that? - (boys exclaiming)
- That's my kind of guy. - Okay. Well, good.
A responsible child. Bravo!
- Wow, that poor guy is left to do it all by himself.
- That looks like the Bible to me.
- And there's a book.
- Oh, the book. The magic book.
- (chuckles)
♪ (playful music) ♪
- A book of knowledge.
- (Lil Dicky) Just one of the guys down here.
- What in the world? Inside the book?
- It's so pretty! - (Lil Dicky) And I just wanted to,
you know, for the sake of all of us... - I don't recognize him,
but I'm having a feel good moment. - That's the same guy
that was just with the kids. - ♪ We love the Earth ♪
- Yeah, we're not loving it enough. - ♪ It is our planet ♪
- Oh. - ♪ We love the Earth ♪
- I love it. - ♪ We love the Earth ♪
- Oh, beautiful.
- ♪ We love the Earth ♪ - We better love it.
It's the only one we got! - They're talking about
protecting the Earth, climate change. - ♪ Hi ♪
♪ I'm a baboon ♪ - Justin!
- ♪ I'm like a man, just less advanced ♪
- Yeah, so we've got the animals. - ♪ And my anus is huge ♪
- (laughs) No! I knew that was coming!
- ♪ Hey ♪ ♪ I'm a zebra ♪
- I think this is Ariana. - ♪ No one knows what I do ♪
- Good singers. - ♪ Am I white or black? ♪
- Man, Noah's ark. - ♪ I'm a lion cub ♪
- Aww, she cute. - ♪ And I'm always getting licked ♪
- But you're eating the zebra. - ♪ Cow ♪
♪ Moo ♪ ♪ You take milk from my [bleep] ♪
- (chuckles) Okay, now it's getting funny.
- ♪ I'm a common fungus ♪ - Magic mushroom! (laughs)
That's why we're singing all that, 'cause we got a magic mushroom.
- ♪ I'm a marijuana plant ♪ ♪ I can get you [bleep] up ♪
- Uh-oh. - ♪ And I'm Kanye West ♪
- Huh?! What's Kanye got to do with this?
- ♪ I'm a marijuana plant ♪ ♪ I can get you [bleep] up ♪
- Oh, I don't know about him. - ♪ We love the Earth ♪
- Kanye. I don't know about him.
- You threw a sarcastic Kanye West in there.
How could you not laugh? Come on!
- ♪ It is our planet ♪
- I love the music. I love the concept.
- Adults can relate to it. Children.
- ♪ It is our planet ♪
- Well, he's got a great message here. - ♪ It is our home ♪
- This is cute. This part is cute.
- ♪ Ba-dum-ba-dum-dum ba-dum-ba-di ♪
- Now, the other part of the Earth. - ♪ We're just some rhinos,
horny as heck ♪ - (laughs)
- ♪ I'm just a giraffe ♪ ♪ What's with this neck? ♪
- Reminds me a lot of Disney movies. - ♪ I hop all day,
up and down with you ♪ - That's it. It's cute!
- ♪ What the [bleep]?! I'm a clam?! ♪
- ♪ (chuckles) ♪ - ♪ I'm a wolf, ah-ooh ♪
- ♪ I'm a squirrel looking for my next nut ♪
- (squirrel 2 groans) - Looking for his next nut.
A whole lot of innuendos in here.
- ♪ Giddy up, let's ride ♪ - The visuals are great.
- ♪ ...HPV ♪ ♪ Don't let me in ♪
- (laughs)
- ♪ And I sleep all the time ♪ - (chuckles)
- ♪ We love you, India ♪
- Taj Mahal. - ♪ We love you, Africa ♪
- Excellent message. - ♪ We forgive you, Germany ♪
- (chuckles) Yeah, 70 years on, I guess we should.
- ♪ We forgive you, Germany ♪ - I don't know if I forgive them,
but that's okay. (chuckles) Well, my grandparents died
in concentration camps. I have a hard time with that one.
- ♪ It is our planet ♪ - It's a presentation
that I didn't expect, that I haven't seen
with a younger crowd.
- ♪ We love the Earth ♪ ♪ I'm a man ♪
♪ Hello? ♪ ♪ Can you hear me? ♪
- (chuckles) - ♪ I've trudged the Earth
for so damn long and still don't know [bleep] ♪
- Man, that's for sure. - Wow.
- ♪ Give each other names like Ahmed and Pedro ♪
♪ And yeah, we like... ♪ - This is beautiful.
- ♪ And it covers up our human [bleep] ♪
♪ Eat a lot of tuna fish ♪ ♪ But these days, it's like
we don't know how to act ♪ ♪ All these shootings, pollution,
we under attack... ♪ - Right, that's true.
- ♪ Respect what we built ♪ - It's rap that I can understand.
(chuckles)
- ♪ ...when you have sex ♪ ♪ And I heard women orgasms
are better than a [bleep] ♪ - Uh, what?
- ♪ What we gotta stand for? ♪ ♪ Love ♪
- Pure genius. - ♪ ...the Earth ♪
- It's just an appreciation of what we've been given.
- ♪ We love the Earth ♪ - We'll, we're not loving
the Earth enough.
- I like him hugging the Earth like that.
- (Lil Dicky) There's so many people out there who don't think
global warming's a real thing, you know?
We gotta save this planet. - See, he's giving hope.
- (Lil Dicky) Guys, everybody look into
whatever the [bleep] Leonardo DiCaprio is always pushing,
'cause I feel like that guy knows more about...
- He was in "Titanic." - (Lil Dicky) ...how we're
[bleep] it up than anybody. Like, if aliens did come,
we should definitely send Leo as our guy, our rep.
- Yeah... - (Lil Dicky) In fact, the profits...
- Yeah, no, I know. Leonardo, he's a big advocate.
- (Lil Dicky) In fact, the profits that come along
with the streams and the sale of this song are going
right into the Earth. - Ohhh.
- That's great. - Long live Lil Dicky!
- (Leonardo) This might be my favorite song ever.
- That's wonderful that he did that.
- (Lil Dicky) Wow. Thanks, Leo.
- Everything being said in here
is pretty right on the money. It'll only take the next generation
to stand up to pollution and take care of the Earth
We just need one generation to say, "No! It's not okay,
because our parents say it's okay."
- They're just silly. This is actually a real
wonderful message, too. It's a very constructive one,
and it's pretty. - There was some definitely
curse words, inappropriate words. Those words did not cast
any negativity on the production. It's well done.
My hat goes off, whoever put this together.
- (FBE) So, one of the big things that people are talking about
beyond just the song's message and the video itself
is how many huge stars from the music world
appear in the song. - That's what-- you know
what I'm thinking? I'm hearing all these voices,
and I'm going, "They sound familiar."
- (FBE) So, of course, you probably recognized some.
Can you tell us whose voices you recognized in the song
you just heard? - Did I recognize them? No.
(laughs) - No, I didn't really
recognize any of 'em. - I thought most of the voices
were his. He was just using different voices.
- Kanye, I did, 'cause he, of course,
introduced himself and butted right in there.
- (FBE) Fun fact, that actually wasn't Kanye.
- It's not? Okay. He didn't do his own voice?
Well, of course not, 'cause he's not the star of it.
(flames rage) - (voice-over) Burn!
- Did I hear Ariana Grande? Ahh! (claps) Yay for me.
- He calls Justin and Ariana by name,
so that's why those have really--
but I know Kevin Hart is in it. Kanye West, that was too funny.
Though, I need to see all the credits.
And you just go, "Oh my gosh! How did he get all these people?"
- (FBE) So now, we're gonna show you everyone who was in it.
- Okay, perfect! - This will surprise me, I know.
- Oh my gosh! - Oh, Kevin Hart does Kanye.
To bring in people and all their fan bases
will look at it, then it just-- it's like a ripple effect.
- Oh my gosh! Well, this is wonderful.
Ed Sheeran, one of my favorite singers.
- Bieber, I know him. Zac Brown, I know.
Katy Perry, know that of course.
Leonardo DiCaprio, he's my favorite actor.
- Snoop Dogg. (chuckles) I figured it was Snoop Dogg
with the herbs growin'. - Doesn't matter who those people are.
The point is they're all contributing and feel they can use their fame
and authority to maybe influence somebody.
- I don't know Lil Yachty. Lil Yach-ee? How do you say that?
Everyone else, I know them. - (FBE) Wow!
- I'm so proud of myself that I know all these people.
- Going back a few years, we did have "We Are the World,"
you know, and brought in all of those singers.
Thank God for some positive things!
I think some of these people are growing up.
- (FBE) So, that was a song by a rapper named Lil Dicky
called "Earth." - I have never heard of Lil Dicky.
- I've never heard of him. Actually, as a rapper,
I think he's pretty good, 'cause most of the rappers,
I don't like. - Lil Dicky. His real name
is Dave Burd. I've met the guy, talked to him,
I had a nice conversation. He's a great guy and very intelligent.
- (FBE) Lil Dicky is a rapper who's actually known
for his edgy songs and comedic take on the genre.
But in his new video that you just watched,
he combines his signature style with the serious
and controversial topic of climate change.
- Right. And it is controversial. That's for sure.
- (FBE) Before we dive into this, can you tell us when you remember
the topic of climate change first coming up
and how people discussed it then compared to now?
- I think around 1990. Species were dying,
and they have so many mutations.
It's an issue, and we need more songs like that.
And we need more action being taken.
And it needs to be done immediately. - I remember. October 1968.
And I remember how the weather was as compared to what it is now.
And there is a difference. - When I was younger,
in the '60s, '70s, and smog was getting worse
and worse and worse, and people were starting to wonder,
"How do we get rid of this? How can we control this?
What's going on?" - It was late '70s, I started hearing,
early '80s about the hole in the ozone.
I don't think the youth were as much on board
with, you know, working, you know, getting things out there.
- Way back then, it was global warming,
that everything was becoming warmer. And then it came into the fact
that it wasn't only warmer. It could be warm.
It could be cold. It could be storms.
It could be increasing rain. Some still ignore it.
We have a president who ignores it right now.
- It was never a subject we talked about in school
or socially or anything when I was growing up.
I'm not in entire agreement with the whole cure,
but there is-- it is relevant that we do need to take a look
at our air and ocean and everything around us.
- Prince Charles-- and I think it was '70 or '72,
he came out talking about it and talking about the fact
that we really needed to do something about it
and not just bury our heads in the sand.
We've had all this time to do something,
and we just haven't. - (FBE) So, this music video
is a partnership with the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.
- I didn't know that he was so heavy into climate change.
- (FBE) So, it's intended to be an environmental call to action
with all the proceeds of the song going to the foundation.
- Oh, that's great. That's great.
Yeah, he's kind of made that his life's work.
- (FBE) So, Lil Dicky is calling this song and video
his life's most important work. But some people have pointed out
that the comedy can take away from the seriousness of climate change,
and others simply feel that the topic isn't a real issue
and the song isn't necessary in the first place.
- Wrong. This video is for everyone. - No. If there was no comedy
and it was just plain, it could be boring.
- It gets people's attention, 'cause, you know, people will look
at some of these documentaries on climate change,
and they just blank out. - It's great, because we're talking
about the world and how it's being affected,
and he's also taken the real world that we live in,
the society we live in, the things that we say,
the way that we act, the things that we think,
and are opposing them with the world.
- (FBE) A lot of the people are comparing Lil Dicky's "Earth"
to the 1985 song "We Are the World," which also featured some
of the most popular artists of the time, and the proceeds
helped those suffering from severe hunger in Africa.
- Absolutely. I remember that song. - That's right.
That really made an effect.
- Incredible, the message in that video.
- (FBE) However, now with the internet and with social media,
it's much easier for projects like this to be shared
and to reach more people. - Yeah. Of course. It can go all over.
- (FBE) Do you think a song or video like this is more effective today
with the reach of social media even though there is SO much content
that you can consume now across TV and the internet?
Or was it more effective back in the days when people
could only watch things pretty much on TV?
- Technically, it might've been more effective then,
because we didn't have the options to not watch certain things
that they put in front of us. - What you have in the '80s
is something more special, because it was so unusual
and it was so limited in terms of being able to view it.
But that meant it was also limited in how many people did see it,
so this is obviously getting seen by more people.
- This is a new day, and this is how people
through this medium are able to connect
to what's going on in the world. - Oh, it's absolutely
more effective today because of the seamless global marketplace.
You can reach a billion users or watchers overnight.
- "We Are the World" was phenomenal. It was a phenomenon,
because it just hadn't been done before.
But if that had had the internet, I can't imagine how much farther along
we would've gone to help the people in Africa.
- (FBE) So finally, this song has gone viral.
It features over 30 major celebrities and already has over 45 million views.
- Wow. Wonderful. - Good. More! More!
- (FBE) A lot of people might feel like Lil Dicky
isn't necessarily an artist that your age group would be interested in,
but now that you've heard the song and seen this video,
do you think elders would like this music?
- Well, I wanna go listen to some other Lil Dicky songs,
which I haven't done yet, but I wonder if I'll be shocked.
- No, I'm fine the way I am. Yeah, I'm not into rapping.
- I'd be willing to give it a listen. That's all I can say.
But this, I think everybody should see.
- The elders would like that music,
because it's got that old-fashioned rhythm/groove to it.
- I love the song.
It's good for people 8 to 86!
- I'm sure there are many, many people who may not know
Lil Dicky or anything about him, but once they hear that and see that
and understand it, it really doesn't matter
if it was Lil Dicky or Lil Ralphie. It doesn't really matter,
because the message is great and it's meaningful.
I'm proud to have worked with Lil Dicky,
know the guy. I think he's terrific.
And I think the whole thing is terrific.
I'd even watch it again.
- Thanks for watching this episode of Elders React.
- Subscribe and hit the bell, so you never miss an episode.
- Thanks for watching. Bye. - Hey, I'm Sierra,
producer here at FBE. Do you wanna help save the planet?
You should check out the links in the description below,
where you can donate to the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.
Let's come together and live! ♪ Ah-ooo ♪
Bye, guys.