Lil Yachty Should of Gotten Into Psychadelics Sooner
Someone took some acid or something. When I first heard that Lil’ Yachty was making a psych rock album, I was like “yeah sure”. People should get into Pink Floyd when you’re in highschool. not in your late 20’s. If you do, I feel like you’re a little late to the party, decades late. But better late than ever in Yachty’s case because this new album of his is so good.
I’ve liked Yachty ever since Lil Boat, but man oh man, I’m really glad Lil’ Yachty took this left turn because this new album surpassed my expectations farther than I ever possibly thought they could go. I really wish Lil Yachty would have gotten into drugs sooner because something in his life changed for the better.
The first Lil Boat mixtape was amazing and so trend setting at the time, Lil Yachty almost single handedly made rap fans go from wanting to be hard and tough, to being a fucking weirdo with dyed hair (in a good way). That mixtape was full of such a different sound and style of rapping that had never been done before, pushing Yachty into the limelight. He was nice, positive, funny and innocent when he came out, but as he got more and more popular he kind of just blended into the game and started sounding like every other rapper. Talking about guns and bitches and the ordinary shit, departing from what made everyone love him in the first place.
The next few projects weren’t that great in my eyes, because they were just ordinary trap beats that were a dime-a-dozen. However on the new album Let’s Start Here, he reeled it back, took the same energy from his first mixtape and then took it in such a different direction. Usually departure albums aren’t always the best, because everyone wants to think that they have the talent and charisma to make a Sgt. Peppers, but they don’t. But Yachty knocked it out of the fucking park on this one.
The combined effort of the team he was working with to write and produce the record, exudes so much talent, vision, great taste and willingness to risk it all. Taking clear influences from the likes of Pink Floyd and Tame Impala, Funkadelic etc, the team revitalized these sounds into something never heard before. Some really lovey hippy shit combined with black excellence.
The ideas presented here weren’t just one-off either. All of the songs go so well with each other. It’s such a cohesive body of work. IN THESE DAYS, it’s so hard to make an album that will capture people’s brains enough to want to listen to the whole thing. I love albums but I will most of the time just listen to playlists of single songs as I assume everyone else does as well. I haven’t heard an album in a while that I like the vast majority of songs on it enough to play it all the way though. But LSH is that album, everything ties into each other so well that you feel like you’re missing out if you only listen to a couple of songs on it.
A project full of joy and love is such a refreshing take on the world unfortunately. But thank god, or whoever, that at least someone is happy enough to make art that expresses it to remind us of that feeling. Excuse me, I’m gonna do some mushrooms now.
