What it’s Like to Livestream Yourself Recording an Album, According to DDG – Rolling Stone

The rapper talks about his new project, Blame the Chat, and how the worlds of content creators and musicians overlap When we talked on Zoom last month, rapper DDG had just been streaming on Twitch for a week straight. During that time, he’d invited guests like Shaboozey and DaBaby to his studio for a 7-day “Hit-A-Thon,” where they’d record songs for his then-upcoming album Blame the Chat, which dropped last week. One would imagine that he might’ve wanted to take a break after wrapping up that kind of gauntlet. Instead, DDG was right back on stream only a few hours after the Hit-A-Thon ended. “Maybe three hours after I finished and logged off, I got back on,” DDG says. “I’ve just been in a working mood.” For his fans, that much is obvious. The rapper and content creator has been working diligently this year, documenting much of it on his Twitch channel, where he’s among the top “IRL” — meaning in real life as opposed to gaming — streamers on the platform. He says the spark for his latest album, which was created largely during his livestreams with input from his audience in real-time, was making “Pink Dreads” with Plaqueboymax
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