Yachty still a student of the game it's so ridiculous how people acting like he turned his back on rap... he just venturing out. I guarantee he still gonna be dropping rap songs/projects
He literally said forget about my other work(which was rap) pay attention to my new shit. Which is fair I guess but he’s completely disregarding how he was even able to make this latest album in the first place
*As much as I LOVED his new album* (and think it’s a contender for album of the year 100%) I wanna see his next album take another departure.. because the best part of Let’s Start Here was not knowing what to expect and being taken by surprise.. if he takes another departure I’d love it - - but if he sticks with psychedelic rock - I’m happy.
Nah because then he would explore too many different genres and not really have the time or experience to create good projects within those genres. Yk what I mean? He would explore new sounds yeah, but none of them would reach the potential they could if he were to stick with something
in yachty’s case, this simply isn’t true . yachty was barely ever a rapper. all his early music was sung and melodic. then he got a massive wave of hate, and led to him being the poster child of everything wrong with rap. then he started rapping like the migos and suddenly rapping with aggression, and it’s clear he wasn’t happy with his career. i’m glad he’s doing the music he wants to now, and he’s been showing signs of wanting to branch out for a while. this yachty, not mgk
Yachty was barely ever a rapper? While I agree that I think it's great he's creating the music he wants to make and that these quotes are being taken out of proportion, I think you're forgetting that boat dropped a whole Michigan rap project that he was clearly passionate about, it was fire af too.
@@boat4l658 yeah and that’s him essentially proving that he can rap. i’m sure he enjoyed making it, but for the last 2 or so years yachty has been on this arc of proving to the world that he actually can rap. yachty also made songs years ago with people like tame impala, and joji, and you can even hear him attempting to do different genres on teenage emotions. he’s been on this for a while and i think it’s just the natural progression of his career. in any other case i’d argue otherwise, a lot of people use hip hop to get ahead. but yachty isn’t mgk or other people, yachty is just being himself
Why can’t artist in hip-hop just say that there drive for rapping diminished instead of saying the fans putting them in box to make only hip hop music.
Yachty might be putting himself into a box by wanting to appeal to fans lol. If the fans were happy with his rap music he wouldn't have left the genre. He's letting people's opinions online influence his career I think alot
Bruh Kendrick Lamar isn't influential?... he had us Black people feeling real good back in 2015 with that TPAB Album, he instilled more Black Pride in us, made people more proud to be Black, love who they are, with songs like 'Alright and I. Influenced artists styles like JID, with his smooth, monotone, poetic flow. Explained the struggles of a Black man in a way so storytelling, that everyone understood what he meant. What do you mean he isn't influential, anyone who says that is probably not Black. 🤷🏿♂️
i’m whiter than sun bleached from spongebob and the argument he’s not influential is so stupid. *even if* you think he’s not influential toward the style of music that rappers are inspired from, the influence it had on the culture is undeniable
He means influential as in other rappers trying to copy his style. Obvi Kendrick makes great music but nobody is really tryna sound like him. For example Playboi Carti started a whole wave of rappers trying to make baby voices edit: chief keef and young thug made waves too
It’s clear that Yachty doesn’t like feeling boxed in by the rap label anymore. There are too many expectations and assumptions that come with people calling you a “rapper,” and a big part of that is adhering to a certain soundscape. I don’t blame him for wanting to branch out more and expand his range, it was a smart move. Rap hasn’t done much for Yachty tbh, he was always treated like a joke or just some kid playing around. The title “Let’s Start Here” couldn’t be more clearer: the new wave begins now.
It’s crazy cause the same niggas saying it’s wrong to dismiss where you came from where the same niggas crucifying him when he first came out for TRYING to be a rapper lmao
Niggas can’t win bro mfs just love crucifying somebody for anything. Even when the shit doesn’t effect them in any way now all of sudden everybody listen to yatchty 🙄 like let’s be real
Fr, if people don’t think you’re good enough to succeed on their terms, they don’t want you to win at all. Yachty is moving away from something that wasn’t working for him.
Yachty didn’t turn his back on rap ….BUT even if he did …. Why would y’all care ? Niggas looked down on Yachty ever since he’s been in the game nobody gave him respect and tried to brand him the poster child for wack rappers . Y’all tried alienating him out of the genre and expect him to hold it down ??? That’s wild to me.
Hip hop treats yachty like a burden step child and he’s not supposed to feel a way? Foh The more serious he takes rap the worse he’s been treated let’s not act like he’s been cold like Minnesota yachty
Yeah it’s odd.. he’s been treated like one of the many red headed, stepchildren of hip hop - then when he jumps ship to do what he wants it’s suddenly “Oh you too big for Hip Hop now?”
@@boat4l658 facts he’s continually worked hard to get repeat from rap and they never gave it to him. He’s written hits for other artists and worked rlly hard to show he can rlly rap. He’s never got the respect he deserves, if we won’t give it to him, who are we to stop him from finding that else where.
Just because some hip hop purists don't like Yachty, doesn't mean he should bash his old music. He's basically disrespecting the people who made him famous in the first place. A lot of people rocked with his old music
I think that it’s partially an age thing. Yachty is young, bro 25 years old, got famous around the wage of… what? 19? Give or take? And one thing people do once they reach a certain age of maturity is look back at their 15-20 year old selves and be like “damn, I was cringe” but as they get older, they look back on their teenage years with more love an appreciation, seeing how those years changed them as a person. I think right now yachty hates his music, but if u ask him the same question when he’s around 40-50, he may look back on it with more fondness
I think as a society we need to evaluate why we are distributed when people just don’t wanna be labeled like why do we give a fuck so much and any creative hates just being locked in a box and its bs we shouldn’t care this much what an individual feels to be creatively we keep wanting to force people into a category and tell them they should embrace it but it doesn’t make sense if he’s creatively not happy and doesn’t wanna associate with it creatively as a creative I understand idk why people think it’s so weird
I feel like this is just another interview taken outta context I think yatchy is just tired of always being outta the picture, as the middle child or his peers uzi carti 21 savage, and Kodak cause his year was stacked w heavy hitters he’s always left out or the butt of the joke or the face of the wack rappers of our generation he’s just maturing and getting his respect which is weird cause if he just kept going the Detroit direction honestly I felt that was a niche he could’ve delved into more
I don't agree with this take simply cause it happened to Kanye West recently in the past 10 years. Dude has made Yeezus, Ye, and Donda and comes out saying he dosent want to be called a "rapper" anymore. Like someone saying "oh he's just a rapper." So they dismiss your music because of that. That's where Yachty is I believe. Which, Kanye is the best example of this because he has stretched hip hop more than most in recent years, and also, Yachty DID SAY he was never taken seriously with his style of rap before. I don't like the "oh let's hop on the whole success" narrative either, because yes, race matters, but it's not everything, and it can be misconstrued as anti-black, but hiphop isn't all black anymore. It hasn't been for some time. It's just that he hasn't been celebrated by the community, the wider rap one, so he is moving onto another genre
I honestly don't think he should've put as much focus on rapping in his career in general, he put too much focus on that early instead of making fun music he loved making.
i guess there’s just something in this backlash that i’m not getting. if i’m correct ppl are getting mad at yachty because he said he’s “so much more than hip hop”?
I get where yachty is coming from, let’s not forget he’s one of main rappers people clowned for being a mumble and SoundCloud rapper and how his music is childish and kiddish. Hell Joe budden was finna lose his shit when he went on everyday struggle for no reason. Bro just want to be taken seriously as an artist🤷🏾♂️
Personally I love the new album but I still think his vocals were not that great on most songs. If a better singer like Brent Faiyaz did the same thing it would’ve been one of my favorites of all time.
I think yachty is someone who is still young, and due to early fame without much or great guidance at those crucial moments has resulted in or exacerbated his poor self image or lack of self identity. When he popped off he got love and then an equal amount of hate. Then he tried to convince those who hated him, he tried to earn their love, and it didn’t work. Some of his initial fans grew up and dropped off. So now I think while it is a cool artistic move the way he’s shitting on his past and such in a way is him trying to reinvent himself as something that even if everyone doesn’t LOVE there at least wont feel like millions of people that hate this new version. Hence why he’s trying to emulate guys like quincy, tyler, etc. people who artistically aren’t hates by many
Still watching but I’m gonna have to disagree with the first part. It’s more really some of these dudes don’t want to be contained to one box. They want to try new things and express themselves differently as they’ve grown and changed. I can’t speak for any artist personally especially yachty but why is it about not wanting to be affiliated with black music? which is a wild term
I refuse to put Lil Yachty up there with pink Floyd. However I will say that he should look at the contemporaries of the genre he just put his foot in.
It rubs me the wrong way that Yachty is acting like he created a new genre or some shit. Like he is entitled to something for putting out music that is not hip-hop. Pretty sure he gave the Pitchfork writer some shit on Twitter for rating his album a 6. A lot of people are calling this album of the year contender when he was carried heavy by production that bit Yves Tumor and Diana Gordon on the best track. Hope Yachty cut that entire team a fat check. Yachty sees rap as a come up and not an art form.
he gave a lot of credit to his inspirations for the album, so you're wrong there. To be fair, the fact he references being a rapper and an artist as two seperate things completely contradicts his defence that he doesn't consider rap as a respectable artform. He did say he hasn't given up on rapping though...so he hasnt really dropped it completely
The first part is your opinion. The second part is false. He took a departure from hip hop to make a psychedelic rock album.. the sound of that album isn’t being made by many anymore - he did something different and creative - that’s the literal definition of innovative.
ABÍB Beats - it’s psychedelic rock not rap - did you even listen to the album? By that logic you’d have to create a new genre for you to say it’s innovative.
it wasn't that innovative in the soundscape of music obviously, but in terms of what people were expecting from yachty it was awesome to hear him venture out and make a psychedelic rock project with a bit of his own touch to it. And that first part of what you said is completely your opinion, many people are loving the new project.
I sorta agree, it wasn’t a bad first attempt and had some really good tracks. If he were to stick w this style, i can see him ending up w something really great and innovative one day
Yachty act like his rock album is good in rock standards…..it’s okay. It was just such a departure from his old style that people are hyping it up like crazy.it ain’t good enough for him to depart from what got him to this point
“Could he not be a better rapper ?“ obviously he cannot Which is why he wanna be rockstar or “Artist” which I’m not knocking you you can be a Artist & still be completely trash 🤷🏽♂️
@Black Shuck wtf. in a few years i hope you remember this comment and look back at it and realise you have grown from being this type of person, cuz ts is just plain hate.
He masterfully composed an album of artists and production and pulled his own weight on tracks.. the opening song literally has vocals that carries you to Valhalla.. how tf he “Get Lucky” 💀
I don't agree with this take simply cause it happened to Kanye West recently in the past 10 years. Dude has made Yeezus, Ye, and Donda and comes out saying he dosent want to be called a "rapper" anymore. Like someone saying "oh he's just a rapper." So they dismiss your music because of that. That's where Yachty is I believe. Which, Kanye is the best example of this because he has stretched hip hop more than most in recent years, and also, Yachty DID SAY he was never taken seriously with his style of rap before. I don't like the "oh let's hop on the whole success" narrative either, because yes, race matters, but it's not everything, and it can be misconstrued as anti-black, but hiphop isn't all black anymore. It hasn't been for some time. It's just that he hasn't been celebrated by the community, the wider rap one, so he is moving onto another genre
I don't agree with this take simply cause it happened to Kanye West recently in the past 10 years. Dude has made Yeezus, Ye, and Donda and comes out saying he dosent want to be called a "rapper" anymore. Like someone saying "oh he's just a rapper." So they dismiss your music because of that. That's where Yachty is I believe. Which, Kanye is the best example of this because he has stretched hip hop more than most in recent years, and also, Yachty DID SAY he was never taken seriously with his style of rap before. I don't like the "oh let's hop on the whole white success" narrative either, because yes, race matters, but it's not everything, and it can be misconstrued as anti-black, but hiphop isn't all black anymore. It hasn't been for some time. It's just that he hasn't been celebrated by the community, the wider rap one, so he is moving onto another genre
