Lil Tecca‘s New Years’ resolutions include taking acting lessons and releasing a video game.
In an interview with XXL, which dropped on Wednesday (December 27), the “Ransom” rapper said that he plans to diversify his creative portfolio in the new year.
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“After this album, get into film. I want to direct a TV show,” he said. “I’ma start writing up dialogue for that and a timeline. I want to start doing acting classes. I want to create a video game where you could walk up to an NPC and become friends with ’em and be like, ‘Yo, what’s up? Let’s go to the store. Let’s do some crazy shit.’ Kind of like Grand Theft Auto, but you could talk to everyone that’s walking around like, they’re not just dormant.”
Lil Tecca didn’t say when exactly he expects to drop the new game, or which gaming company he plans on partnering up with to make the game a reality.
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In addition to sharing his plans, Tecca was roasted for an unreleased track he shared a snippet of that didn’t go down too well with fans.
A clip of Lil Tecca working in the studio surfaced online earlier this year. In it, you can hear the sample he plans to use: Brandy and Monica’s “The Boy Is Mine.”
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In addition, he spits a few bars from the unreleased track. “I keep my day going, I keep my bitch straight/ Said she want Casamigos, it’s a lit night,” he raps.
DJ Akademics eventually posted the clip to his Instagram page, where the comment section tore into the 20-year-old rapper. The Queens native was criticized for his lack of originality, and for wasting such a valuable sample.
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“No sample will be left standing after this new generation of rappers,” one person commented, while another one wrote: “We need to get far away from samples.”
“I hate when n-ggas sample a hood song just to be mid,” a third user declared.
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“Damn Maxine from Living Single going crazy!” one person joked, followed by another who was straight to the point: “N-ggas need to leave the classics alone.”
Some of the people in Ak’s comments were feeling the track, with one fan declaring Lil Tecca “underrated” and saying “he doesn’t get his respect.” Another user said of the track: “He’s saving the summer.”
Lil Tecca burst onto the scene around 2019 with the release of his debut mixtape We Love You Tecca. The 18-track effort was fueled by the success of his breakout single “Ransom,” which appeared twice on the tape, with the original and a Juice WRLD remix.
As a result of its initial release, the mixtape peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and eventually went platinum, allowing him to rub shoulders with artists like J.Cole and Russ who have achieved the feat of selling over one million units of their album without any guest appearances since 2017.
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In 2020, he released his studio album Virgo World, which reached the Top 10 on the Billboard 200. His second mixtape, We Love You Tecca 2, followed a year later.
