Lil Yachty is already preparing himself for backlash after claiming that DaBaby had a better verse on Kanye West’s “Jail” than JAY-Z.
During the debut episode of his new podcast A Safe Place, the Atlanta rapper took a moment to fire off a hot take he had about the Donda cut.
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“Something I’ve wanted to talk about for a long time,” Yachty began. “The song ‘Jail’ with Kanye West.”
“The one with the greatest rapper ever on it and the one with DaBaby on it,” his co-host MitchGoneMad chimed in.
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“In my personal opinion, I think DaBaby had a better verse,” Yachty continued. “I know the conversation of JAY-Z versus DaBaby is insane, but I honestly think his verse was better.
“I feel that’s gonna get me a lot of heat anyway. Maybe not as heated as the whole Biggie situation I dealt with in 2016.”
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MitchGoneMad went on to say that DaBaby likely could physically knock out Hov, but that he was unsure about Yachty’s personal take. He then reminded Yachty that the Roc Nation boss brought Oprah to the Brooklyn, New York housing projects he grew up in back in 2009.
“Who gives a fuck,” Yachty said with a laugh.
Kanye West released “Jail” originally with JAY-Z when Donda debuted on streaming services in August 2021. A few days later, Ye dropped “Jail Pt 2.” which featured a guest verse from DaBaby, as well as vocals from Marilyn Manson.
The collaboration was met with backlash due to both artists’ respective controversies at the time. DaBaby had come under fire for homophobic comments at Rolling Loud Miami just weeks earlier, while Manson was facing sexual assault allegations from multiple women, including his former partner Evan Rachel Wood.
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Lil Yachty is no stranger to controversy himself (albeit less severe) having previously said he believed 2Pac and The Notorious B.I.G. were “overrated” back in 2016.
Yachty quickly walked back his comments, stating that same month in an interview with Ebro: “I feel like I owe an apology. I didn’t think before I spoke on that topic. I know now how important and just how serious it is to some people. I didn’t want people thinking that I was disrespecting him because it wasn’t a disrespect thing.”
Elsewhere in the A Safe Place episode, Lil Yachty said when speaking about artists falling off that he doesn’t like Sean Paul, and that it’s been “fuck Sean Paul” for a long time now.
“Nobody ever said Sean Paul fell off,” Yachty said. “They just stopped making music. I don’t think they’re still dropping music.”
He then added: “By the way, fuck Sean Paul. I want to make that very clear, I don’t fuck with Sean Paul. Sean Paul once dissed me in a radio interview.”
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The insult came from a 2016 interview on The Breakfast Club in which Paul singled out the trap star while criticizing younger rappers. This occurred soon after Yachty came under fire for his aforementioned comments about Biggie and 2Pac.
“If it was really about talent in the Hip Hop industry, you wouldn’t have some of these younger cats talking that,” the dancehall star said. “The Lil Yachty dem. The boat boy. I mean, I don’t know much of the dude’s music either.
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“I don’t like his comments. Those are artists I revere. I understand that probably kids don’t care about writing right now. I understand they don’t know where Hip Hop started.”
