Lil boat

"Like the works of its humble forebears Lil B and the venerable Soulja Boy, Lil Boat is the kind of music that does not need to make a case for its own value, only judged on the intangible, absurdist metrics of its self-contained universe. Listening to Lil Yachty is a lot like standing on a train platform in a Polo sweatsuit, one earbud in, interpreting the raps from your phone into personal theme music through exaggerated, off-the-cuff gesticulations, bobbing and weaving, articulating the rhythmic prose of the beats with rolling, fluid movements tempered by a forward-falling, emphatic swagger. It's like you're shooting a music video, except you're not; it's just you on the platform - that is, you and the nine other people who are doing exactly what you are doing, all attuned to the same frequency but atomized in your execution of it. Everyone is performing as if everyone is watching, but really everyone is watching themselves through the imaginary lens of everyone else".

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"Den nye generation af rappere fra hiphoppens nye hovedstad, Atlanta, kigger sig ikke over skulderen, de kigger nærmest ikke op fra telefonskærmen. Men det betyder ikke, at de ikke kan lave god musik. Da Lil Yachtys første mixtape, 'Lil Boat', udkom sidste år, var det som at blive inviteret ind i en opiumshule og se Svampebob Firkant: trippende i sine simple beats og bedøvende af klangen fra den autotunede stemme, men samtidig fuld af farverige små melodi-hooks hentet i børnesangenes klare enkelhed. Tilsat en fornemmelse af, at en fnisen hele tiden kan bryde den tågede tilstand. Man skal kun høre 'Minnesota' en halv gang, før man har Yachtys skrabede falset i hovedet resten af dagen".

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