Lil Yachty is preparing his debut album and announced that it will be called Teenage Emotions in a cover story for MTV.
The Atlanta rapper explains the importance of staying true to himself in the album process even when people, including Pete Rock and Anderson .Paak, have said Hip Hop is being tarnished by his happy-go-lucky style.
“My fans are so loyal and dedicated that I don’t care that much about winning people over, but I know it’s gonna change and people will eventually give my shit a chance, bro,” the 19-year-old says. “That’s why I’m working so hard on this album, not to please others, but I’m just really trying, bro, to show people that, like, I’m not just fucking bad! … I’m not a joke. I’m not making fun of Hip Hop or being disrespectful. It’s not play rap, it’s as real as anything.”
Much of the criticism has come from Yachty being honest about not being familiar with legends including 2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G. He explains that every genre, using the example of rock music, has different sounds and layers, so he is confused as to why Hip Hop has to be “hardcore, street, storytelling, the struggle.”
“People say I’m destroying Hip Hop, and I’m like, there’s so much Hip Hop, and it’s so popular, so I don’t know why I have the power to destroy it,” he says.
Teenage Emotions will come after Yachty dropped his Lil Boat mixtape in March and then signed to Quality Control.
Gay album title, bro
Hey DX, you’re a news site, not an opinion site. It’s getting annoying that your writers think they have the right to let their opinion be on display in what is supposed to be news. For example, the person who wrote this clearly enjoys Lil Yachty. Or at least has a favourable bias. While that in itself is fine, there’s a big difference between and opinion/speculation article and actual news. That’s bad journalism and you are all better than that. The best example here is stating that artists took issue with his “happy go lucky style.” That’s speculation, and not fact. Not to throw shots without backing it up, I’ll gladly retool these articles if wanted.
why dont u start a site and write what you want on it ???
We see how into your album when it actually drops this nobody won’t even crack 50k first week another lame ass New rapper !
yes! the greatest album in history is soon to be witnessed by everyone worldwide, it’s gonna be lit. the goat right here!
He does have a point when, “he is confused as to why Hip Hop has to be ‘hardcore, street, storytelling, the struggle.'”
I agree. Personally I can’t stand his music but he has the right to keep making it, his fans have the right to keep buying it if they enjoy it, and I have the right to stay the hell away from it. It’s really not that complicated. People need to start acknowledging the fact that young people today don’t all know about hip hop history and nor do they have to, and also that diversity is a good thing. If nobody innovated then things would get stale quickly. If more artists stayed true to themselves, their own opinions and their own true experiences then music would be better for it. I respect him for that even if it’s not to my taste.
He has a point in why does hip hop have to be hard-core and that hip hop like rock can have many sun genres to it but still, this nigga should just try and keep the rhythm and poetry in rap there in his art.
nigga your like 12 years old Go back watching cartoons.
He’s complaining about hip hop being too hardcore and street? Did he forget about his verse on “Broccoli”?
His ship is going to sink, that album gonna flop. Retard niccaz gonna try 2 download and stream it on the same device mad times.
He doesnt have an album out yet but hes all over the Media! Conspiracy? This is MARKETING. The Zionists are out here destroying Hip Hop and blacks are selling out.
I dont give a FUCK what anybody says but Lil yachty is mentally ill, the way he behaves and talks its like he has asperger or down syndrome…. I cant put my finger around it but this guy is not Mentally alright up there. Just like Chief Keef was found out to be Autistic. The evil Zionists that own the Industry are signing Autistic black children to “represent” Hip Hop, also gay MFS like yung thug. They dont have anything to do with Hip Hop.
I hate when people try to take Hip Hop away from the streets, and say you don’t have to be lyrical, the essence of hip hop is that. If you doing something different call it that, but it aint hip hop bro!!! If you driving a car that has propellers and wings on it, that can hover above traffic that is not a car…its something else…samething with these dudes trying to pass what they doing off as hip hop….its not, you dont have to talk about the streets, you dont have to be Lloyd Banks with the pen, but we need a discernible rap at some point in your song if we gone call it hip hop!!!!
His best song was about drugs and he was rapping like a street dude in that song. The broccoli joint!!! You cant take hip hop from the streets!!! Its not gonna happen. Because pop culture is so fickle that once they done with you they done with you….watch what happen to drake in a couple years. But if you get the streets you will always have them!!! I salute anybody getting a dollar but this is not Hip Hop!!! And stop putting Uz vert and Kodak in the same category with this dude they spit bars, they not Termanology with the pen but they can still rap!!!
He has a point, and to point out another fact look at what rock and roll was versus what it is, they rarely pay respect the architects which were blacks, the best thing for newer generations to do is pay respect to the founders and do whatever you want. But pay respect.