Lil Yachty Made His Mysterious Appearance On Saturday Night Live.

Firstly Lil Yachty started with the performance, “The Black Seminole”

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that features Diana Gordon and complete with a psych rock band.

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Lil Yachty has released his latest full-length album Let’s Start Here.

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It was an unexpected pivot from his previous albums.

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During the rollout, he mentioned about his experimentation because he wanted to be taken seriously as an artist.

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“I think I created it just because I really wanted to be taken serious as an artist, you know. Not just some SoundCloud rapper,

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not some mumble rapper. Not some guy that just made one hit.”

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“I wanted to be really taken serious because music is, like, everything to me. I respect all walks of music,

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“I wanted to be really taken serious because music is, like, everything to me. I respect all walks of music,

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