Lil Yachty has opened up about his past relationship with Mariah The Scientist, admitting that he wasn’t the best boyfriend.
Sitting down for an interview with Shannon Sharpe on his Club Shay Shay podcast, the Atlanta rapper reflected on dating Mariah when they were both college students, although it appeared to be an uncomfortable topic for him.
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“I was a shit person to her. She was really great, so great. So I get it. She was a great person, though, man,” he said while visibly squirming in his seat.
Addressing comments she made in a recent interview with Yung Miami, Yachty added: “That’s the first time she ever spoke on us, ever, publicly. I honestly think she was pretty respectful. She didn’t shit on me, you know? I know what you’re talking about, but I brought it upon myself. She ain’t tell no lies.”
Asked by Sharpe if he wanted to apologize to Mariah, Lil Boat was noncommittal: “Our relationship is such a long span, you know? Since high school, so it’s long and blurry. YOLO, bro. Shout out to her. Tons of love. And I respect her.”
Last year, Mariah The Scientst, who is currently in a relationship with Young Thug, revealed that she and Lil Yachty were romantically involved before either of them were famous.
She said on Yung Miami’s Caresha Please podcast: “I met him in high school, though by the time I got to college we started dating a little bit or whatever, and I felt his career was taking off and he had all these things. I didn’t know what to do, like, or what I could give him, ’cause I was just a broke college student.”
Mariah also revealed that she even wrote multiple songs dedicated to the future rap star: “So I thought, ‘Well, he likes music, I like music, let me make him a song.’ And so that’s what I did, I made him two different songs and I put them on the iPod and I gifted it to him. I signed the back, it was real cute.”
Yachty’s response to the romantic gesture, however, was less than positive.
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“He told me he did not want to listen to it because he didn’t want to shit on me,” she recalled. “At the time, I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt.
“Like, you make music so you feel like maybe this is stepping on your toes, people around you be trying to do shit like that, and maybe you felt like I was trying to infringe on that area of your life.”
