“When Lil Yachty burst onto the scene last year, he seemed like something out of a hip-hop purist’s nightmare: an Auto-Tuned warbler who half-rapped, half-sang his lyrics like a half-asleep ILoveMakonnen, favoring beats that sampled “Finding Nemo” and “Rugrats,” wearing his hair in red Raggedy Ann braids and calling the Notorious B.I.G. overrated. (He eventually apologized for that last one.)”
