Lil Yachty Doesn’t Need to Listen to 2Pac and Biggie to Rap
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When Lil Yachty dropped by New York’s Hot 97 for an interview this summer, he was, naturally, asked by Old Man Ebro and company to rap. Anyone familiar with the show, or any other hip-hop radio show over the last 25 years, knows this is par for the course. It’s a way for a rapper, especially one relatively new to the scene, to showcase their skill live, and for a massive audience. Ebro played the instrumental for OutKast’s “Jazzy Belle” from the duo’s seminal 1996 album ATLiens, and Lil Yachty stumbled through some shaky couplets before declaring, “I feel, like, 40 years old on this beat.”
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