Last year, Ispoke with Lil Yachtyabout mystique.
Just like me not wanting to do any of these interviews.
Even if [they] did an interview, you didnt get every element of something.
Lil Yachty at the Broccoli City Festival in Washington, D.C., in JulyKaitlyn Morris/Getty Images
Which is the beauty in art.
We might even start calling him that ever-present buzzword: reclusive.
He had the taste, peer respect, and industry connections to simply drop his music and go.
I think Chapter One of my career is extremely oversaturated, he told me.
I was thinking … Im easily accessible.
I didnt like that.
His first single, 2015s One Night, went viral on SoundCloud.
He came into public consciousness during the 2016 live stream of Yeezy Season 3.
I felt, Im going to stand up.
Im going to speak.
Lets Start Herefeels like the work of a terminally online artist pursuing the cutting edge.
Hot Spot, who didnt want to erase the song because of his recent religious conversion.
Hot Spot on social media, which felt like an inconsiderate power play.
Maybe Yachty doesnt care what the public thinks.
It feels like the same digital soil that fertilized Yachtys career is also his quicksand.
