Growing up just north Philadelphia in an upper-middle-class Jewish family, Lil Dicky was set to become just about anything other than a rapper. He was a funny kid, who loved entertaining people but grew up to become an account manager in an ad agency. While he worked away in the business world, his creative side kept coming out. Eventually, he realized that his future was going to be in the world of entertainment. He started rapping, but at the time, he saw it as a way to break into the world of comedy and acting.