As Lil Yachty prepares to launch Teenage Emotions into 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.”
“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.
Here’s one thang dat not phake doe. Use a fa66ot mark n u futher ruinin diz good rap thang. Ain’t much left ta save doe afta lil Wayne bitch a55 and solja bitch wit superman done open da fluudgates real spit doe. Datz damn near a deccade of str8 bullCHIT doe. Fucc all mop head f4g rappers. I only bumps dudes 45 yearz or older. Anybody hate fucc yo bitch momz
He doesn’t even realize, it’s not even that he mumble raps or makes wack music (there was wack artist back then too, they just stayed in their lane). The reason people are upset with him, is because he came in the door disrespecting the foundation of what Hip Hop was built on, for no reason. Ok so you’re wack, like you said, I don’t have to listen (and I don’t). But it’s wrong to disrespect the foundation you’re standing on. Had the elders not did what they did for the genre and made the mistakes they made, he wouldn’t be able to make the money he’s making or get the deals he got now. He don’t have to make music like the old heads did, but don’t disregard what they built. Learn from it. Cause when the next young punk comes along (He ain’t gonna stay 19 forever) they will exploit, what will “Lil Yacht” do when they toss him to the wolves cause they have no use for him anymore? Then he has to get serious about the music, but nobody will take him seriously because he was clowning and disrespecting the whole time.
Learn your facts before you write something and imagine being in his position. 6 months and he was a millionaire, man if that was me I’d probably think I’m too shit too. Regardless you are outdated information about yatchy to hate on him. He’s a 19 year old entrepreneur worth 4 mil, he’s smarter and more attentive then ever, and he’s just gonna keep getting bettet
Man father fuck lil slave ship
The same way you bashed 2pac and biggie,we are bashing yo wack ass. FOH with yo imbecile music nobody understands
His so call music is 100% wack and looks like garbage those who have dressed him up need to be shot got him looking like Homie the Clown from tv show Inliving color
This pedo looking mofo is about to turn 20… he has no business talking about teenage “emotions”. Emotions is sum girls talk about anyway… at 19 i was banging hoes smokin weed poppin x and streetfighting. These mfs are so soft nowadays
Damn you sound old AF
lil floater in the toilet
Life is full of things you have to grit your teeth at, it’s not all fake, mainly a part of life, a little thing called maturity. It’s ironic that a young “rapper” is speaking on such a thing, being in a privileged position himself.
Lil Yachty is a wack clown and a talent-less one at that, his music is horrible trash, he has no respect for what came before him and sucks dicks most likely Zane Lowe’s one as well. eat a fat dick Lil Boat.
What album is better, Teenage Emotions or Illmatic?