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"Forever Young" [ft. Diplo]

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May 31, 2017

Lil Yachty was 12 when Jay Z released his late-career blunder “Young Forever,” which was less a soundtrack for abandon than it was trite muzak for yachts and wine spritzers. Since then, hip-hop’s curmudgeonly old guard has framed Yachty as an iconoclast for his apparent disregard of guys like Jay Z, an emcee Yachty has actually publicly revered in interviews , but whose musical relevance exists largely in another lifetime than his own. Jay, after all, wasn’t speaking to high-school crowds in 2009—but in 2017, Yachty is.

Yachty’s “Forever Young,” the Diplo -produced track culled from his messy debut , calcifies what one crowd has latched onto and another has rejected in his music: that he sounds like a happy kid. On its face, “Forever Young” might have spelled disaster, a collaboration that forces Yachty’s innocence through industry machinations to produce a summer hit. Instead of calculated, thought, it sounds smooth around the edges, and the track is one of Yachty’s most streamlined performances to date, the most obvious hit in his catalog.

Diplo’s production is an aggregate of his well-branded summeriness. The synths are pristine and upstroked; the drums tick, thump, and roll predictably; tasteful EDM effects echo and surge. Yachty slips into his own familiar, fizzy pop stance, skipping to the beat in sing-song verses and belting out a soaring earworm hook in a slight Auto-Tune. He never says much, but there’s a grinning, self-confident mushiness that he deploys to win you over while being silly. “If I break your heart/Then I’m a dumb dude,” he raps to a love interest who has a bunch of protective brothers. And when he stammers out, “Together, we forever young” on the hook, it sounds like an upbeat pinky promise.

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Lil Yachty Is "Forever Young" in New Video for Diplo Collab

The video is directed by Alex Lill, who previously brought us videos from Nav and Joey Badass.

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Lil Yachty dropped the new video for "Forever Young" Friday, and it’s full of exactly the sort of visuals the song demands.

The video for the Diplo-featuring Teenage Emotions single is directed by Alex Lill, whose previous work includes videos for Nav and Joey Badass. Yachty is credited as the video's creative director.

There's nothing worse than someone writing an entire paragraph detailing what happens in a music video that would only take the reader mere minutes to watch themselves, so I'm not going to do that. Just watch the video.

"Forever Young" marks the second Yachty video this week. On Wednesday, Macklemore shared his video for the Yachty-featuring "Marmalade." The video sees kid versions of Macklemore and Yachty driving around and generally just enjoying life. Goddammit. I just wrote a sentence about what happens in a music video. At any rate, here's the video:

WORLD PREMIERE. MARMALADE (FEAT. @LILYACHTY ). MUSIC VIDEO. https://t.co/E4gTARGYSi pic.twitter.com/NndzGXgtpQ — Macklemore (@macklemore) August 2, 2017

Yachty's Teenage Tour kicks off next week at the Bomb Factory in Dallas, Texas before taking the Yachty experience through Florida, New York, Nevada, California, and damn near every state in between. Check the full list of dates below:

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"[ Teenage Emotions ] caters to a teenager's everyday lifestyle—heartbreak, happiness, that vibe when you waking up in the morning getting dressed and you just wanna dance," Yachty once said of the vibes on his debut album. With his new "Forever Young" video, Yachty is keeping that lifestyle at the forefront of his art.

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Lil Yachty Drops "Forever Young" Music Video Filmed Entirely on Carnival Rides

He didn’t even look dizzy after..

After dropping the animated version earlier this month, Lil Yachty returns with yet another visual interpretation for his Diplo-produced, Teenage Emotions standout cut, “Forever Young.” In the video, you’ll find the nautical one with his Mrs. at the carnival living up to the song title as they venture off to the ferris wheel, bumper cars, the super slide and many more. The video was shot entirely on carnival rides, check it out above.

Also stream Lil Yachty’s new Teenage Emotions album and in case you haven’t heard, Lil Yachty & Tee Grizzley’s “From the D to the A” just got remixed yesterday by Kodak Black .

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