Any post I do on social media, any song, anything in general - I just try to promote positivity, because I felt like there's not enough positivity going around in the world.
— Lil Yachty
I want to help, and I wanna learn more about what's going on in the world. I just wanna be alert.
I was in college and got arrested. It was a real scare for me/wake-up call/'Man, you better do something with your life 'cause you don't wanna be a bum' call. That's really why I took music serious.
My dad got me an iMac, and I spent my whole childhood with my eyes glued to it. I was technically savvy and knew how to make it work for me.
People say I'm destroying hip-hop, and I'm like, there's so much hip-hop, and it's so popular, so I don't know why I have the power to destroy it.
My No. 1 key with fans is, honestly, to stay connected with them. I think it's important to talk to the fans online and respond to their questions. You know, live streaming, playing video games.
I'm just fire.
I was performing in front of mirrors forever. Just jumping around my room at, like, three in the morning when everybody else was sleeping. So when it came time, I was so ready.
I'm not normally big on suits.
Most of my influences aren't rap. I love Coldplay.
I've never had beer. It smells so disgusting.
I did buy my mother a Range Rover and a new crib. It feels good to say that.
My only verse I remember really working on was 'Mixtape,' and I took 45 minutes on that because I wanted it to be tight.
I want to say it's important that you vote, that you get out there.
I was surrounded by a bunch of friends who made music, and at the time, I thought they were good. They used to tell me I was really bad, but it ended being up the opposite.
I'm one of the biggest Kid Cudi fans of all time. He's very relatable.
Me and Uzi aren't friends. We used to be cool. It's not beef; it's just competition. That's all it is. We're not friends.
When I was young, I was crazy in the head on social media.
I've always been a good person, but I wanna be, like, the best person.
Serious rap music puts me to sleep.
Hip-hop is not one thing!
I had braids before. They were real long, and they were black, but my mom made me cut them for the McDonald's job. Then, when I got the job, everybody had long braids and colored hair.
Not really a perfectionist, but everybody around me is.
I go to the studio every night.
I don't think men dress to look attractive; I think they dress to look cool.
I don't wear anything more than once most of the time. I try not to wear the same thing twice. I have too many clothes to wear the same thing twice.
That's how things work: you be who you are, and then people like you. They gravitate.
My dad used to play that Paul McCartney song 'Let 'Em In.' That was dope.
I'm 100 percent sunshine.
I've got songs that sample 'Mario Bros.,' 'Charlie Brown,' the 'Rugrats' theme, the music that plays when you turn on a Gamecube.
I'm not negative.
I don't really know how to describe how I got into music - it kind of just happened.
People used to always laugh at my hair, stuff like that.
I don't eat fruit.
I don't listen to J. Cole, but I have nothing against J. Cole.
I just want to be a better person to the community.
I hate serious rap. It's boring.
People bashed Drake based off the fact that he didn't suffer. Who cares! Do you like the music or not?
I want to open a restaurant, and I want to start selling properties. I want to own some stock.
Frank Ocean is super dope! He's like a ghost. He's, like, not really real. I didn't think he was real until I met him.
I don't hang out. I don't go to clubs, ever. I don't party.
I like penny loafers.
I'm promoting positivity. I'm promoting happiness and loving yourself and having fun. But it's not a joke.
I didn't think I would work for Nautica. I never thought in my life I would have a Sprite deal, never in my life did I think I would have a Target deal, ever.
I used to wake up before school when my mom was already at work. That's where I first heard a lot of music, like All Time Low, Fall Out Boy, Miley Cyrus, Linkin Park.
I'm not influencing the youth in no bad way. I'm doing can drives at my shows.
They treat you as if you are a different kind of human or life form when you are a celebrity - as if we don't breathe the same air, or we don't bleed the same - and I hate that. I really hate that.
Everybody's voice matters.
I remember being in jail, like, 'Man, I'm not old enough.' And then I thought, 'I just turned 18.' I had just turned old enough to be in big people jail.
I used to have visions of being a star all the time, but I never knew I wanted to be a rapper.
