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Lil Yachty's LET'S START HERE is a hip-hop journey, showcasing Yachty's evolving style, recorded at various studios. The album reflects Yachty's versatility and growth as an artist. For fans, this edition is not just a collection of tracks; it's a snapshot of Lil Yachty's artistic evolution, making it an essential addition to any hip-hop library and a testament to the genre's ever-changing landscape.

• The Black Seminole. • The Ride- • Running Out Of Time • Pretty • :(Failure(: • The Zone~ • We Saw The Sun! • Drive Me Crazy! • Ive Officially Lost Vision!!!! • Say Something. • Paint The Sky • Should I B? • The Alchemist. • Reach The Sunshine.

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Lil Yachty Takes Aim At His Haters With New Merch

Lil Yachty haters have been quite vocal over the years.

Lil Yachty has been having a huge career resurgence over the past year or so. Overall, a lot of this can be attributed to his latest album, Let's Start Here. With this project, Yachty ditched a hip-hop sound and decided to give us some psychedelic rock. The artist was definitely channeling some Tame Impala throughout the tracklist, and fans loved it. However, this does not mean he has abandoned hip-hop entirely. Instead, he has been dropping some amazing rap bangers while also contributing to Drake's For All The Dogs .

Needless to say, Yachty is getting co-signs that plenty of other artists wish they had. There is no telling what Yachty is going to do next, and his fans are very excited about the future. That said, the artist remembers just how loud the haters used to be. People used to call Yachty one of the worst rappers of all time. Well, he is now looking to combat that with his latest piece of merch. Below, you can see his new black and white t-shirt in which the message is crystal clear.

Read More: Lil Yachty Begs Nicki Minaj To Unblock Him: “I’m Actually A Huge Fan”

Lil Yachty Makes A Statement With This Shirt

“I’ll never forget y’all hated on Lil Yachty for no reason," the shirt says. It is very clear that Yachty feels like a lot of the hate that plagued his early career was all for nothing. At the time, people just didn't understand his sound. When you don't understand something, sometimes you show fear over it. That can definitely be said of the Charlamagne Tha Gods and the Ebros of the world. However, Yachty is the one who has come out on top in the end. One could make the argument that the haters are not worth addressing.

Will you be copping this shirt? Let us know, in the comments section below. Additionally, stay tuned to HNHH for the latest news and updates from around the music world. We will always keep you informed on your favorite artists.

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Rappers wearing nail polish has become a talking point in hip-hop again. DJ Akademiks revisited the topic last Thursday (March 29) after he made fun of Lil Baby for wearing nail polish in the rapper’s new music video. Baby has since come out and denied Ak’s claim. Regardless, how someone chooses to express themselves in hip-hop, whether it’s having painted nails or not, still seems to make people in the space uncomfortable. Akademiks saying, “I kno his nails not painted .. man wats going on in rap,” continues to perpetuate a stale, dated correlation between colorful nails and homosexuality.

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Of course, DJ Akademiks is far from the first person to accost rappers for getting their nails done. Lil Yachty, who has his own nail polish line called Crete , has suffered years of trolling for the act of self-expression. In 2021, Yachty said that he began experimenting with nail polish after A$AP Rocky showed him the ropes, and introducing Lil Boat to clear polish and buffs.

“I started doing it about three or four years ago,” Yachty told GQ back then. “I got compliments instantly. I felt clean. My nails weren’t dirty and nasty. I felt more mature.”

Yachty’s style then rubbed off on Drake, who also has had his sexuality criticized for wearing yellow nail polish despite how pretty it made him feel.

“Get out my comments you told me to paint my nails so I stop biting them and now the world is being homophobic for the 1st time since Rich Flex,” Drake wrote to Yachty on IG at the time. “Which wasn’t that long ago now that I think about it…wait is the world homophobic? Smh.”

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Nail polish is very common in hip-hop now.

Even an artist as colossal as Drizzy isn’t safe from homophobic trolls. In 2024, colorful nail polish has become a more common sighting on rappers’ fingers. Tyler, The Creator and Machine Gun Kelly have followed in Yachty’s footsteps by starting their own gender-inclusive nail polish brands , and other rappers like Kid Cudi and Lil Pump have completely incorporated the colorful accessory into their wardrobe. Ski Mask the Slump God and XXXTentacion were wearing nail polish all the way back in 2017, and even braggadocios gangster rappers like YoungBoy Never Broke Again have worn makeup and nail polish over the years.

Rather than outright criticize these rappers, Wack 100 posed a query to the younger generation on his Instagram page last February. He asked why he was seeing more polish on rappers’ hands. The inquiry brought on a response from Trippie Redd , who wears often black nail polish. Trippie said it helps artists be authentic to themselves.

“It’s a way of expressing ur feelings,” Trippie shared. “Being true to yourself and self-care.”

But more than that, nail polish aligns with hip-hop’s ideology. Over 50 years ago, the genre was born out of protest music that pushed back against restrictive norms. Kids took their parents’ music and chopped it up into scraps, and used those beats to communicate their struggles in a raw and unfiltered way.

While rap has maintained a chokehold on toxic masculinity, why can’t nail polish be part of that next big protest? With rappers like Lil Yachty wearing nail polish now and Y oung Thug wearing a dress in the past, it’s time for the genre that broke social barriers to help break down the gender restrictions consuming the culture.

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Canadians who have combined their favourite McDonald’s dishes will soon get to see some of their creations hit the fast-food chain’s official menu — a phenomenon growing in popularity across the quick-serve industry.

The golden arches announced its new Remix line on Tuesday, marketing a trio of limited-time sandwiches and a reimagined McFlurry with versions of its 1980s menu jingle remixed by U.S. rapper Lil Yachty and Montreal-born instrumentalist Mike Clay.

“This is tapping into what customers and what fans are already doing today and just making it official and having fun with it,” said Alyssa Buetikofer, McDonald’s Canada’s chief marketing officer.

The Remix promotion features a chicken cheeseburger and a Surf ‘N Turf sandwich with two beef patties and an Alaskan Pollock filet. Both will be topped with cheddar cheese, pickles, onions, ketchup and mustard.

A third sandwich — the Sweet Chili Junior Chicken — adds a sweet chili Thai sauce to the regular Junior Chicken.

The Sweet Chili Junior Chicken was a no-brainer to include.

“That is something that we have hundreds of customers come in and do in our restaurants across the country every day,” Buetikofer said, adding it is likely the fast-food chain’s most hacked item.

Accompanying the sandwiches is a McFlurry filled with apple pie and caramel.

Narrowing the Remix menu to four items meant parsing through data, trawling social media and carrying out taste tests ensuring the chosen hacks are actually appetizing.

Though, there were lots of contenders.

“If you think about other quick-serve restaurant brands, they have one menu icon, maybe two. We have a whole menu of iconic products,” Buetikofer said.

“We figured why not be proud about that, have some more fun with it and drive some engagement and participation with our customers, too.”

The Remix promotion makes McDonald’s Canada the latest in a string of fast-food giants to let consumer creations guide their menu additions and harness some of the vitality behind dishes to boost brand awareness and profitability.

A&W Canada launched the spicy piri piri potato buddy — a hash brown-filled sandwich inspired by a Brampton, Ont., franchisee — in February, while Harvey’s brought its customer-created pickle pickle poutine to menus last November.

McDonald’s Canada previously toyed with menu hacks in 2023, offering a Chicken Big Mac customers had long assembled.

Lisa Hutcheson, a retail strategist with J.C. Williams Group, feels the inclination customers have to get creative with their orders comes from some wanting dishes that meet their preferences and eating habits, and others being enticed by social media.

“Influencers are looking for things that they can use to drive their Instagram moments and these are the kinds of things they can use,” she said.

Online, there’s an endless scroll of unofficial hacks, including people who dump packets of sauce into their McNugget boxes and shake the container to douse the chicken morsels or others who combine a Big Mac, McChicken and Filet-O-Fish into what they call “the Land, Air and Sea.”

The chains see this behaviour as a chance to “drive curiosity” and “differentiate from standard fare” at a time when “people are looking for something kind of fun,” Hutcheson said.

And even those whose appetites aren’t whetted by outlandish creations may be lured in by menu hack promotions, Hutcheson said.

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“If they don’t want to necessarily try cheeseburger ice cream, they may still say, ‘We are going to go there and check it out’ or maybe one person orders and their friends share and it just makes it a reason to go.”

The chain hopes to draw people in — no matter what their order is — with Lil Yachty’s remix of the Menu Song, its 1989 jingle speedily naming off every McDonald’s dish. Mike Clay of the funk and hip-hop group Clay and Friends has made a French version.

“Lil Yachty was at the top of our list from day one. He is former McDonald’s crew. He is a true brand fan,” Buetikofer said.

“He has charisma and you have to have that type of personality to co-create this with us and actually turn it into something that is a work of art of your own.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 2, 2024.

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