Lil Yachty shocked the world together with his Let’s Begin Right here psychedelic rock album, and now he’s gearing as much as make one other artistic pivot together with his subsequent physique of labor. Lil Boat revealed on Tuesday (Feb. 13) that he’s readying a genre-blending joint mission with James Blake titled Unhealthy Cameo.
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“I feel James has labored with a fairly substantial quantity of hip-hop artists,” Yachty mentioned in a clip posted to Instagram. “However this mission is so left for each of us. Then, apart from the one image that James posted, which he doesn’t have many followers really, I don’t suppose individuals know that we all know one another exist.”
Whereas they’re but to launch something collectively in an official capability, Blake is not any stranger to the hip-hop world, as he’s earned current manufacturing credit engaged on Kanye West’s Vultures 1 and Travis Scott’s Utopia.
Followers figured that Blake and Lil Yachty might have one thing within the stash when a photo of them in the studio went viral final March. The British singer-songwriter detailed assembly up with the “Poland” rapper months later in an interview with DIY Journal.
“[Yachty and I] had been engaged on one thing, and it simply occurred that he was in London. I requested him if he fancied going out to a membership. I don’t suppose he in all probability knew what it could be like,” Blake mentioned. “He occurred to show up at precisely the second that the Ragga Twins got here on stage. Abruptly, he was simply stood there like, ‘Oh f—ing hell, this can be a bit completely different.’”
Yachty dropped his “Chilly Sunday” single earlier this month, and has notched visitor verses with Child Cudi, Chief Keef, Faye Webster and Fred Once more in 2024.
Let’s Begin Right here arrived in January 2023, and debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 with 36,000 album-equivalent gross sales within the first week.
“I did what I actually wished to do, which was create a physique of labor that mirrored me,” Yachty informed Billboard in his cowl story of the solo album final yr. “My concept was for this album to be a journey: Press play and fall right into a void.”
Watch Yachty announce Unhealthy Cameo under.
