Lil Yachty Poland

Mableton, Georgia rapper Lil Yachty, born Miles McCollum, was once one of those pariahs. Because of his gleeful and boyish hooks and his original trademark pink ...

He is Yachty – memeable, yes, but ultimately dope, direct, and capable of a song that brings rap fans to a euphoric space. Expect this song to be controversial and continue to be all over the internet – we’re living in a time of fatalism and violence in the Instagram era. Streetz is a brawler of a rapper. Yachty was considered a troll early in his career, an unfair characterization he was saddled with because he didn’t want to play the political game of mentioning Biggie or Pac on his Top 5. collab “Broccoli.” With “Poland,” he may have the juice to achieve similar chart success without actually making a pop song. He goes on a high to low space; you don’t know what is coming next. It’s now been six years since “Minnesota.” After a while, people stopped talking about Yachty like he was the enemy of traditionalism and started accepting that he was here to stay – and that he is a mainstay for a genre of rap that has made real waves and dropped monumental music. Meant to be played continuously, Yachty croons over droning keyboards: “I took the Wock to Poland” like he is an anime star surfing through the snow. In the week since it hit SoundCloud, “Poland” has become fodder for countless memes — including one that Yachty In a droopy but fluid flow, Yachty’s hook of “I be dripping, too much water on my face” was a form of simple brilliance – a one-sentence outlook of what it is like to be young and feel yourself. “Water On My Face” – my personal favorite – sounds like a score to a Christmas movie. By deploying the kind of stratagem that leads people to ask ridiculous questions such as “Why haven’t you, an 18-year-old, listened to the Notorious B.I.G.?” radio hosts such as Old Man Ebro of Hot 97 turned young artists into pariahs for arbiters of a musical conservatism that was starting to fade out of its mainstream moment.