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“People who like this are actually stupid,” rapper Lord Jamar once said about Lil Yachty’s music. When 18-year-old Yachty blew up on Soundcloud in 2016 with the playful hits Minnesota and One Night, critics lambasted him for being everything wrong with the current state of hip hop. Yachty’s self-described style of “bubblegum trap” was far from the aggressive music his Atlanta contemporaries were putting out.

The relentless criticism from traditionalist rap fans only got worse after Yachty admitted in an interview with Billboard that he couldn’t name five Biggie or Tupac songs. He was publicly derided by hip hop heavyweights Pete Rock, Joe Budden, and Ebro. It appeared Yachty took the criticism to heart because he began releasing harder-hitting tracks…