LIL YACHTY

LET’S START HERE.

JO KENDALL

(Quality Control Music/Motown, 2023) When this writer was growing up, the rap/hip-hop movement was an exciting proposition, telling stories from the streets enhanced by patching in sonic ideas from anywhere in music history – blues, classical, electronics, jazz, rock… a little like the pioneers of prog, huh? But at some point the mainstream scene’s colour palette went monochrome with producers/performers seemingly happy enough if they created a beat and could spit some lyrics over it. In the last decade a new generation of rapper-writer-performers has blossomed, including Georgia’s Miles Parks McCollum, aka Lil Yachty. Growing up with the sounds of Lenny Kravitz, Coldplay, John Coltrane and Radiohead, then inspired by Tame Impala’s psych rock and pop, Yachty identified a watershed moment when he and his teenage peers “came in with…

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