Jordan Moreau Lil Yachty’s latest album, “Let’s Start Here,” did just that: It gave the rapper’s career a new starting point by setting aside his hip-hop origins and rebooting into psychedelic rock.
Yachty 2.0 stopped by Central Park’s SummerStage and showed off his new sound, while also giving original fans a healthy dose of his classic bangers.
This year marked a massive shift for Yachty. After his last studio album, 2020’s “Lil Boat 3” and a mixtape the following year, he had stayed mostly quiet.
He hadn’t yet fully broken out of the SoundCloud, mumble-rap boom of the late 2010s: The red hair, AutoTuned voice and comical lyrics had made a name for him, but at the same time almost painted him into a niche corner, unable to break out.
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