Dave Blunts

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About

Dave Blunts is a rapper from Davenport, Iowa known for his often funny, story-driven lyrics covering topics such as lean addiction, sex and relationships, in particular with two exes, Abigail and Madison. Blunts began sharing his music online in 2018 on Facebook, garnering a steady following over the following years. He garnered further popularity in 2024 with songs like "The Cup," "Talking to the Sun" and "Crying in the Kitchen." In November 2024, Blunt's weight became the subject of discourse online after a video of him performing "The Cup" live went viral on X / Twitter.

Online History

Dave Blunts first started sharing his music on his Facebook^[1] page. The earliest known video of him recording a song was posted to the page on November 2nd, 2018, garnering around 3,000 views in six years. On July 10th, 2020, Blunts posted the music video for his song "NEVER SOBER PART 2" to YouTube,^[2] garnering over 158,000 views in four years.

On April 9th, 2021, Blunts started posting on Instagram,^[3] garnering over 160,000 followers in the next three years. On October 13th, 2023, he dropped his first album, Bigger Than I Ever Was, on streaming services, including Spotify.^[4] Blunts went on to release five albums throughout 2024, including You Are Not That Special, I Can Do What You Can Do, I Would Like To See You Try, Well Dude Here's My Thing and If I Could I Would.

On April 11th, Blunts posted a video to TikTok^[5] in which he sips on a cup of lean while singing to his song "The Cup," garnering over 1.5 million views in seven months. This was his first video to gain over a million views. Notably, rapper Lil Yachty left a comment on the video, writing, "I really felt this."

On April 13th, Blunts posted a video to TikTok^[6] where he sings his song "Talking To The Sun," garnering over 4.3 million views in seven months. On May 17th, Blunts released a music video for "Talking To the Sun" on YouTube,^[7] garnering over 369,000 views in six months and becoming his most viewed video as of November 2024.

On September 14th, Blunts posted a series of photos to TikTok^[8] and Instagram^[9] showing him recording music from a hospital bed, garnering over 3.7 million views on the former and 16,000 likes on the latter in two months.

On September 26th, he posted several photos of himself walking stairs on Instagram^[10] and TikTok,^[11] garnering over 6.7 million views and 13,000 likes respectively. In the Instagram caption, Blunts talks about changing his life, writing:

I know I was supposed to release my new song 10 percs this Friday and I keep pushing it back but honestly her being gone has taken a toll on me i realized that it’s my fault that she’s gone and if I ever want her back I must make changes in my life so instead of taking the elevator I’m taking the stairs now I’m not use to the stairs so I got a little tired thankfully I had Jesse jones to help me conquer the stairs anyways hopefully my new song will be out on 10/4 if not then just know it’s because the pain of her being gone has once again derailed my whole schedule 🤧

Online Presence

On July 20th, 2022, Redditor u/2pro4u___ posted a screenshot to /r/shitposting^[22] of a Facebook post made by Blunts pre-viral music success in which he expresses frustration over being scammed with a fake bill featuring Obama's face, garnering over 6,500 upvotes in two years.

On April 16th, 2024, following the virality of his songs "Talking To The Sun" and "The Cup" on TikTok, Sheesh Media^[12] published an interview with Blunts. On May 13th, the On The Radar Radio YouTube^[19] channel published an "On The Radar" freestyle with Blunts, garnering over 800,000 views in six months. On July 31st, Complex^[13] published an interview with Blunts.

November 2024 Weight Discourse

On November 8th, 2024, X^[14] user @funnyhoodvidss posted a video captiong "aura" of Dave Blunts performing his song "The Cup" live. In the video, Blunts is sitting in the middle of the stage and sipping on lean as he sings. The post garnered over 40,000 likes, 4,900 reposts and 23 million views in three days.

The video inspired online discourse about Blunts' weight and health. On November 9th, X^[15] user @apt9charlie quote-reposted the video, writing, "Dude he can’t even stand during his performances and he’s like mid 20s I genuinely fear for his health," garnering over 160,000 likes in two days. That day, X^[16] user @Peenigga1 posted, "I was there he made everyone turn the cameras off and had 4 security guards help him get up," garnering over 143,000 likes in two days.

On November 10th, TikToker^[20] @nukephilli posted a video of Blunts seemingly out of breath sitting against a wall, garnering over 50,000 views in a day. Later that day, X^[21] user @ohfold reposted the video, writing, "Dave blunts was on the brink of passing out backstage after performing while sitting on a chair," garnering over 13,000 likes in a day.

Snoop Dogg Comment

On November 9th, 2024, Snoop Dogg reposted the video of Blunts performing "The Cup" to Instagram,^[23] captioning it, "We’ll put down the chicken wings and Tata chips Nefew and that chair gone break soon get to the end of the cup," garnering over 171,000 likes in three days.

Memes

On November 9th, 2024, X^[17] user @JohnPorkZoneWar posted a photo of Blunts standing with Woo Wop, which Blunts posted to Instagram^[18] that day, writing, "when you split in agar io," garnering over 30,000 likes in two days.

Personal Life

According to his interviews with Sheesh Media and Complex, Dave Blunts was born in Davenport, Iowa on July 1st, 2000.

He started recording music at 18. He explains that Madison, a girl he frequently raps about, is someone he used to see since he was 14, but she has a new man named Julian, who he also frequently raps about. In the Sheesh Media interview, he is quoted as saying:

So Madison is this girl that I’ve been f---ing with since I was like 14, we’ve been on and off throughout the years, but she always gets a new boyfriend and tries to make me jealous. I’ve always been a local artist, so people around my city know who I am, and she’ll use that to talk to guys and be like 'hey, you wanna talk to Dave? I know him, lemme call him.' To them it’s cool, but she's really doing it to make me jealous […]

This time, when she did that s--- she sent me a picture of a dude in the hospital and she was like 'yo it’s a Make-a-Wish kid, he wants to meet you, all he wants to do is talk to you before he f---ing dies' and I was like if you think I’m stupid just get the f--- off my phone. Then she sent me another picture of her leg on top of him and I was like 'get your leg off that boy' and she was like 'you wish that was you huh?,' she's just talking that s---, you know what I’m saying.

Then I’m scrolling on Facebook and I see him and her together and I’m like who the f--- is the n***a with my b----? I click on his page and see they’re engaged and I’m like oh shit what the f---. It’s like if you wanna be happy, be in your relationship and be with the n***a and leave me out of it, I don’t give a f---. So when I saw that I was depressed and hurt for like three days, and I kept going back to the page and I’m like damn this n***a’s really marrying my b----, that's crazy. And then I just decided to cook that song up, “CRYING IN THE KITCHEN,” and I was like Imma just put all my feelings on that s---. That’s the Madison and Julian situation.

He goes on to claim that Abigail, another girl he frequently raps about, is a real woman that he was going out with. She was a prostitute. He explains that he decided to stop seeing her when she posted her prices on social media and they were "low," quoted as saying:

Abigail was always a b---- that I would just have between b----es. I never took her seriously because I knew she was a hoe, I knew she was f---ing. We’d usually get into arguments and we’d have each other blocked on social media, but we would always have each other’s phone number. One day she had posted prices on her story and s---, like publicly. And it was low amounts of money, like 60 dollars […] Her explanation for it was 'a lot of people wanna f--- me, I know my worth' and I’m like “damn, you know your worth? 60 dollars? That’s a Best Buy gift card.'"