Will Diplo forever be known as the guy who ran away from Burning Man?
In a hilarious video he shared on his Instagram on Thursday, Diplo, 44, leans into a joke when he was identified as something other than a musician at a Raiders game he attended in Las Vegas on Sunday.
The video shows the DJ waving at a football game with the caption: “Whoever is in charge of the raiders jumbotron, we need to talk…”
The video then cuts to jumbotron footage showing the musician “Genius” on the screen. Underneath his name was written “The guy who ran away from Burning Man.”
He captioned the post “I make music too.”
Diplo and Chris Rock Hitch drove out of Burning Man in a pickup truck after ‘walking 6 miles through mud’
In a video shared on Sunday night, Diplo shared footage from a party he threw “at the raiders endzone” where he DJed for a large crowd.
Diplo is one of the celebrities who have shared their experience of escaping the Burning Man festival after it was shut down earlier this month due to heavy rain in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.
According to CNN, the weather has left over 70,000 people stranded in muddy conditions. Additionally, a man believed to be in his 40s also died at the festival, however, the outlet confirmed it was not weather-related.
Sharing the post on Instagram, Diplo revealed that a fan had offered to pick him and Chris Rock up in his truck to help them escape. In the video, Diplo took his ski goggles off his eyes while pointing the camera at a group of participants.
Rock also appears in the clip, wearing a New York Knicks varsity jacket, a black cap and matching sunglasses. The Everyone hates Chris the star went on to joke about how much he wanted a cold drink.
Diplo performs in New York in June 2023.
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“A fan offered Chris Rock and I a ride from Burning Man in a pickup truck,” Diplo wrote via video. “After walking six miles through the mud, all Chris could think about was a fucking cold drink.”
Diplo also revealed in his caption that he went to great lengths to escape the festival because he had a show on the books in Washington, DC
“I walked for hours on the side of the road with my thumb sticking out because I have a show tonight in DC and I didn’t want to let you all down,” he wrote. “Also kudos to this guy for smartly buying a truck not knowing it was this exact moment ❤️.”
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