Teenage Emotions
Yachty is our master of joy. His debut album is well-polished and full of pop-rap confections, but his polarizing style hardly captures the nuance suggested by the album’s cover and title.
Rap music is full of big personalities, and their occasional clashes have created scenes that encapsulate larger epochal shifts. Think Suge calling out Puffy at the Source Awards, or pretty much anything involving Soulja Boy. More recently, take the case of Joe Budden yelling at Lil Yachty.
Atlanta's most divisive new rap figure's debut arrives to mixed results, but it's best moments have almost nothing to do with hip-hop.
The album is an imperfect, sometimes strange record that can't be graded on a traditional rap rubric.
Nineteen-year-old “bubblegum trap” sensation Lil Yachty is rap’s most polarizing figure.
His upward spiral accelerated with the platinum single "One Night," assists on the Top Five pop hits "Broccoli" and "iSpy," and widespread exposure through a prominent television ad, Lil Yachty goes all out with his first proper album.
While older figures have continually slagged Lil Yachty off for both his musical output and his place in hip-hop in general, the red-braided...
The Atlanta teen’s very modern take on hip-hop is buoyant and direct. Shame about the misogyny
Teenage EmotionsArtist: Lil YachtyGenre: Hip-Hop & RapLabel: Virgin EMI/Quality Control/MotownLil Yachty deals in sounds rather than stanzas.