Hot off the release of his new album, 'blame the chat,' DDG is with us at the Hard Rock Hotel New York to talk about it all, sitting down with DJ Buck and Big Regg for an Audacy Check In.

Featuring guest spots from Ty Dolla $ign, Rich the Kid, Offset, Rob49, BIA, Wiz Khalifa, DaBaby, Queen Naija, and Shenseea, 'blame the chat' is star-studded and blasts the artist to new heights. "I just rock with who rock with me," DDG reveals. "I don't like to force collabs, I don't like to force features, none of that. I just like to keep everything organic. Whoever rocking with me that's who i wanted to walk through the door."

That door was to DDG's 7 day live stream "Hit-A-Thon," which saw the rising rapper putting together his latest effort in real time. "It's more fun, I would say, to create live. You're getting live feedback. They know what they're getting right then and there," he shares. "Even with my album, most of the people that watch the 'Hit-A-Thon,' they heard me make the song, but even when I drop the album it still sounds refreshing, it still feels new, because when you make the song it ain't mixed, it ain't mastered, it ain't got that them extra drums. It's something new still, so it's cool."

"I feel like I'm just all around more of a polished artist," DDG says of his evolution since first landing on people's radar. "I just think more technical these days about how my music come out."

"The chat" is a big part of DDG's come up into a new level, and it's not something he takes lightly, saying he "cracked the code" by involving those fans in the way he makes music. "I used to make music for people that didn't listen to me, that was my problem. Now I make music for people that listen to me and then I will let them be the ones to advocate for me."

"I feel like a lot of my music career I was chasing the streams and the support from people that don't want to like me no matter what, but now I'm set, like if I only got a thousand streams on a song, I'm gonna make music for those people that stream, that thousand, and then eventually it's gonna grow."

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