I mention this every so often, but Diplo is probably my most shameful celebrity crush. He’s just such a dirtbag! He’s such a bro. He’s so in love with himself. There’s just a grossness to him. And yet, I would hit it. Hard. The heart wants what it wants and if it ever happened, I would never tell a soul. Diplo and his man-nips cover the December issue of The Cut. Diplo is promoting about a million things and that’s why he went shirtless for the photos or something. Lord help me, but I would. Sorry. You can read the full profile here. Some highlights:
He thinks his early Twitter usage is why people thought he was a d-ck: He was “one of the first guys” to use it, and it helped his career a lot — but he was always pissing people off. He doesn’t really think he’s crossed any boundaries, though: “I’m not a malicious guy, you know? So if someone didn’t understand that, I put it on them, you know?” Still, he’s apologized for the Taylor Swift beef, for the MIA feud. And he was only on Raya for a month a long time ago. He mostly used it to connect with people he already knew as friends (including Joe Jonas, his “soul mate”). He felt really bad for women who use it because all the men are like him (“DJ losers”) while “the girls are better than us.”
He’s trying to figure out social media: “I’m still figuring it out,” he says, about giving fans a personal view of who he really is. He studies the internet. He thinks John Mayer is “really good at it.” “I don’t know any of his music anymore, but I’ll buy it because he’s so good at Instagram,” he says. He, like everyone, thinks the kids on TikTok are genius and begins to explain his theory of TikTok chaos: “It’s like beyond races, beyond gender. They have old Chinese guys doing dances, then all these young people doing the same ones, and the kids accept everything on it, so it’s not like one wave.” He sighs. “It’s beautiful.”
His cowboy phase: “What else is a white guy supposed to do when he hits 40? I can’t wear, like, Balenciaga pants. Well, I mean I can …” The way he sees it, he has three options at his age: “a cowboy, or motorcycle-gang member or something, or you’re a corporate lawyer.” At first, women in his life begged him to cut his hair. “You used to be hot,” they said, but eventually they came around to it, according to Diplo. “I mean, girls still like me with my ugly tooth and my ugly haircut. I just kept thinking, I’m never going to get laid again, when I started doing this stuff, but it still happens. I don’t know how. I just persevered, man. Persevere in your ugliness. It will just eventually become beautiful, I think.”
On the suede pants he was given for the photoshoot: “These pants are so tight I can’t even Nae Nae!”
He doesn’t mind that people objectify his buff body: “Nope. Totally like that. Totally love that. But it’s pretty sad that I have to take my shirt off to have more likes than other photos.”
His veganism: “When I was younger, I was vegan for a different reason. I wanted to kill everybody that ate meat and that was anarchist. Now I’m vegan because of selfish reasons. I want to be healthier and live longer. Vegan food is going to let us live forever, right?”
He spends more time with his two kids these days: “They’re not stupid, you know. They’ll be like ‘My dad never gave me that real time.’” For Diplo, this means spending less energy on “women” or “stupid things like getting lost on YouTube looking up samurai swords.” He isn’t really dating, and doesn’t actually know if he believes in monogamy at this point, but his kids are teaching him a lesson about intimacy. “I guess I really understood that true love from them, which is cool, because I was getting kind of jaded at this point. But when they came, I was like, ‘Wow, now I understand what it must be for other people.’ To feel love, to really have that feeling. It’s cool.”
The Cut also speaks to Diplo’s ex-girlfriend and mother of his children and she openly discusses their relationship as it was and as it is now, especially given that they split when she was pregnant with their second. She doesn’t seem to hate him, and he gives her a lot of credit for raising their kids while he’s more of a drop-by father. I mean, it sucks, but at least he acknowledges that she’s doing the bulk of the child-rearing. Anyway, I have expected Diplo to say, at the end of the interview, that everything that came before it was a joke, a persona he was trying on. But I think this is the “real” him – sort of uncool, sort of mean, sort of… trying. Trying to be different. Sorry, still a shamef–k.
Read our full cover story, where @Diplo talks about his forties, fatherhood, and look: “Girls like me with my ugly tooth and my ugly haircut. I kept thinking, I’m never going to get laid, when I started doing this stuff, but it happens. I don’t know how” https://t.co/6pc9IGobfi pic.twitter.com/pss2vbYk42
— The Cut (@TheCut) December 2, 2019
Photos courtesy of The Cut.
I’d also hit it.
As an aside- I’ve been noticing several different campaigns going on to market diamond jewelry to men, recently. I’m wondering if this is the solution the diamond industry has landed on because of the increase in lab created diamonds and the popularity of moissanite and other jewelry options. There have been so many articles about the decrease in demand for diamonds and now I want to know the back story.
I’d hit it too. He has really nice arms. And I don’t think he’s all that ugly. I even kind of like his hair. No shame f’ing status for me, he’s pretty hot.
I feel EXACTLY the same way as you do Kaiser. I’m ashamed & grossed out by myself, that i’m attracted to Diplo. Ugh.
OMG. His jewelry. His words. Can anyone be more into themselves? If he became a mute and ditched the glitter…. Nope. He’s so greasy he’s his own lube. 😃
So greasy he’s his own lube!!! LMAO!
I’m sorry but there is nothing attractive about this man especially his personality. I cant get behind a man who body shames woman or is a drop by father putting the majority of the parenting on his former partner. Giant NOPE for me. Also I’m really tired of some men thinking it’s okay for them to let their looks go but still expecting beautiful women to want them.
I would just like to speak up from the back & say that I would not hit it. No shame for the rest of you though! I have zero judgement on crushes…unless it’s Mike Pence.
Or Stephen Miller.
Sorry, I just vomited a little bit.
I don’t know this guy that well, but he is like one of my friends who is both half-woke and half-womaniser at time serial-monogamist (I know, sounds weird but I assure you, possible).
Some of what he says actually IS interesting and the other stuff is just stupid.
I especially like this one and it should be a rule for everyone (because, let’s face it, we all think that the way we feel comfortable is ugly for others and then we try to conform):
“I just persevered, man. Persevere in your ugliness. It will just eventually become beautiful, I think.”
EDIT: oh and I SO would.
100% agree. Those arms are so sexy. I’d hit it too (with enthusiasm) and take it to my grave.
No judgement for those who’d hit it but hard pass for me.
Ick.
Whenever I see his name, I always read it as Duplo. Which works because he’s about as mature as a Duplo user.
Wow he is sexxxxyy…I’d hit it too. I wouldn’t be down for the veganism though.
Question: why does Katy Perry come to mind when I hear this guy’s name?
They dated for ten minutes, and he took a run at Taylor Swift on Twitter on behalf of Katy, I believe.
He suddenly looks douchey knowing Katy Perry is involved. Her taste of men is bad.
GROSS.
Me too Kaiser me too.
I first heard about him with the short-lived tv show “What Would Diplo Do ?”.
THAT was brillant.
(and yes, I’m also shamefully attracted by him … Le sigh!)
I mean, his honesty about his grossness and especially his role as a father in opposition to most who bend over backwards to appear like the best parent in the world is admirable but NO. Just no. To me he is just gross without the sexy part
Ugh sharing moment. My shameful celebrity crush in the same vein is Dan Bilzerian.
Gross I said it
Does anyone hear watch trash 90 day fiance? He slid into Jennifer’s DMs and they hung out LOL
Yes but I don’t remember which one is Jennifer. Love Pedro
He looks good.
I would have hit it too, until I found out (right this second) that he has two kids he barely sees. No. Ew. Bye.