Lil Yachty stepped into the spotlight after the release of his 2015 project Summer Songs. The project was his debut EP, which propelled him into the mainstream with songs “Minnesota” featuring Quavo, Skippa Da Flippa and Young Thug as well as “One Night.”
2016 was a pivotal moment in Lil Yachty’s career. The rapper signed a joint record deal with Quality Control Music, Capitol Records, and Motown Records. In addition to starting his career with the support of a label, the rapper also released his debut mixtape Lil Boat in March. The following month, he collaborated with DRAM for the song “Broccoli.” The song peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was nominated for Best Rap/Sung Performance at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. That year he also collaborated with Chance The Rapper’s Coloring Book on the track “Mixtape.”
As for fashion, in 2016 he modeled for Kanye West’s Yeezy Season 3 fashion line at Madison Square Garden. He would later collab with Ye musically as he was featured on Donda on the track “Ok Ok.”
Lil Yachty dropped Let’s Start Here, the rapper’s fifth studio album back in January.
While the Atlanta native is mostly known for his music, eccentric hair and fashion sense, the rapper has been making a new lane as a podcaster. He started his own podcast in June with his friend MitchGoneMad, titled It’s A Safe Place. He revealed that one of the reasons was to get his friend paid.
“I did it for my best friend. I did it because I wanted to make him rich,” the rapper said to Bobbi Althoff on her show The Really Good Podcast.
Althoff asked if they were successful in making Mitch rich. While he’s not rich yet, Yachty said that he is still working on that as they already secured a sponsor for their podcast.
Over the last few months, he’s also proven to be an entertaining guest and getting intesting answers from his celebrity friends.
Take a look at some of the most memorable moments from his podcast career thus far, both as a host and as a guest:
