As Lil Yachty prepares to launch Teenage Emotionsinto the musical stratosphere, the red-haired rapper is making the press rounds in support of the new album. One of his most recent stops was at Beats 1 Radio, where host Zane Lowe picked his brain about everything from stardom and his credit card fraud arrest to his former job at McDonald’s. In between singing renditions of New Edition’s “Can You Stand The Rain,” the topic of fakery was brought up, which seemed to truly baffle the 19-year-old artist.
“People just fake things,” Lil Boat said. “People fake like they like you, people fake like they’re happy … you fake like you want to go to school, you fake like you like where you working or your boss fakes like they like you … life is just full of fakeness.”
During the conversation, he also appears to address those individuals who have criticized his particular brand of music, which is often referred to as “mumble rap.”
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“I never got how if you don’t like something … ok, you don’t like it, but how do you knock something?” he shared. “I understand knocking negativity or knocking some off the wall type [stuff], but ok, ok, you don’t like the way this song sounds. Ok, there’s too much auto-tune. So what? How do you sit and bash something? I just find it amusing like, ‘How does this bother you so much? How does one person upset you so much that you know nothing about?'”
In early May, veteran rapper Joe Budden went in on Lil Yachty during an episode of Everyday Struggle, calling the Atlanta native “bullshit” and accusing him of being “media trained.” Charlamagne Tha God also deemed Yachty the “poster boy for wack rappers” last month.
Watch the full Beats 1 interview with Lil Yachty above.
