Lil Yachty

Lil Yachty is one of the most fascinating shape-shifters in modern hip-hop. He broke out as the red-braided, bubbly face of the SoundCloud era with Lil Boat, and a lot of people wrote him off as a novelty back then. Then he flipped the script entirely with Let's Start Here, a genuinely ambitious psych-rock pivot that earned real critical respect. That willingness to evolve, to risk alienating his original fans for the sake of artistic curiosity, is what makes him worth following. He's also become a tastemaker and producer, quietly more influential than his goofy image suggests.

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Lil Yachty (born Miles Parks McCollum, August 23, 1997) is an American rapper, singer, and producer from Mableton, Georgia. He rose to prominence in the mid-2010s with the mixtape Lil Boat and the viral hit 'One Night,' becoming a leading figure in the melodic, lo-fi 'SoundCloud rap' wave. He later expanded his sound dramatically with the 2023 psychedelic album Let's Start Here.

Name (English)

Lil Yachty

Name (Japanese)

リル・ヨッティ

Reading

りる・よってぃ

Born

August 23, 1997 (age 29)

Origin

Mableton, Georgia, United States

Height

180cm

Occupation

Rapper / Singer / Songwriter / Music producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Ox

University

Alabama State University

• Official sitehttps://www.lilyachtyofficial.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/lilyachty/
• Xhttps://x.com/lilyachty
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil%20Yachty
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A8%E3%83%83%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23772141

Tags

• From Georgia
• Rapper
• Singer
• Songwriter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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