lil yachty flex up

Spotify is currently not available in your country.

Follow us online to find out when we launch., spotify gives you instant access to millions of songs – from old favorites to the latest hits. just hit play to stream anything you like..

Listen everywhere

Spotify works on your computer, mobile, tablet and TV.

Unlimited, ad-free music

No ads. No interruptions. Just music.

Download music & listen offline

Keep playing, even when you don't have a connection.

Premium sounds better

Get ready for incredible sound quality.

• Download Shazam
• Radio Spins

Lil Yachty, Future & Playboi Carti

Hip-hop/rap, music video, upcoming concerts for lil yachty, future & playboi carti.

• Sep 14 Sep 14, 2024 Outer Harbor Live at Terminal B Buffalo View Concert

Shazam Footer

• Help for Apple Devices
• Help for Android Devices
• ShazamKit for Developers
• Privacy Policy
• Manage Your Data

Top Songs By Lil Yachty

Featured in.

Lil Boat 3.5 Lil Yachty , Future , Playboi Carti November 29, 2020

Music Videos

Lil Yachty, Future & Playboi Carti

More By Lil Yachty, Future & Playboi Carti

Africa, middle east, and india.

• Côte d’Ivoire
• Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The
• Guinea-Bissau
• Niger (English)
• Congo, Republic of
• Saudi Arabia
• Sierra Leone
• South Africa
• Tanzania, United Republic Of
• Turkmenistan
• United Arab Emirates

Asia Pacific

• Indonesia (English)
• Lao People's Democratic Republic
• Malaysia (English)
• Micronesia, Federated States of
• New Zealand
• Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Solomon Islands
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• France (Français)
• Deutschland
• Luxembourg (English)
• Moldova, Republic Of
• North Macedonia
• Portugal (Português)
• Türkiye (English)
• United Kingdom

Latin America and the Caribbean

• Antigua and Barbuda
• Argentina (Español)
• Bolivia (Español)
• Virgin Islands, British
• Cayman Islands
• Chile (Español)
• Colombia (Español)
• Costa Rica (Español)
• República Dominicana
• Ecuador (Español)
• El Salvador (Español)
• Guatemala (Español)
• Honduras (Español)
• Nicaragua (Español)
• Paraguay (Español)
• St. Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• St. Vincent and The Grenadines
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Turks and Caicos
• Uruguay (English)
• Venezuela (Español)

The United States and Canada

• Canada (English)
• Canada (Français)
• United States
• Estados Unidos (Español México)
• الولايات المتحدة
• États-Unis (Français France)
• Estados Unidos (Português Brasil)
• 美國 (繁體中文台灣)

"Flex Up" lyrics

• Lil Yachty Lyrics

• Today's news
• Reviews and deals
• Climate change
• 2024 election
• Newsletters
• Fall allergies
• Health news
• Mental health
• Sexual health
• Family health
• So mini ways
• Unapologetically
• Buying guides
• Labor Day sales

Entertainment

• How to Watch
• My watchlist
• Stock market
• Biden economy
• Personal finance
• Stocks: most active
• Stocks: gainers
• Stocks: losers
• Trending tickers
• World indices
• US Treasury bonds
• Top mutual funds
• Highest open interest
• Highest implied volatility
• Currency converter
• Basic materials
• Communication services
• Consumer cyclical
• Consumer defensive
• Financial services
• Industrials
• Real estate
• Mutual funds
• Credit cards
• Balance transfer cards
• Cash back cards
• Rewards cards
• Travel cards
• Online checking
• High-yield savings
• Money market
• Home equity loan
• Personal loans
• Student loans
• Options pit
• Fantasy football
• Pro Pick 'Em
• College Pick 'Em
• Fantasy baseball
• Fantasy hockey
• Fantasy basketball
• Download the app
• Daily fantasy
• Scores and schedules
• GameChannel
• World Baseball Classic
• Premier League
• CONCACAF League
• Champions League
• Motorsports
• Horse racing

New on Yahoo

• Privacy Dashboard

Maybe We Know a Little Too Much About Lil Yachty

Last year, I spoke with Lil Yachty about mystique. Our conversation about his Let’s Start Here album got awkward when he told me he didn’t want to reveal too much about its creation. I asked him about plans to release a documentary he recorded about the project, and he told me, “I doubt I’ll drop it. Just like me not wanting to do any of these interviews. I don’t really care to talk about it, [because] you give it all away [when] you pull the curtain back.”

When I asked him if he put a premium on artists with an allure of mystery when he was younger, he told me, “Coming up, you didn’t have all this social media. Even if [they] did an interview, you didn’t get every element of something. It’s the simple things you knew, but they left a lot of room for ‘Wow, how did he make this?’… Which is the beauty in art.”

More from Rolling Stone

Drake Surprise Releases Three New Songs, Features Playboi Carti

A$AP Rocky Plays With Perspective in Cinematic 'Highjack' Video

Cash Cobain Strikes While His Sound Is Red Hot on 'Play Cash Cobain'

I came away from the interview feeling like Yachty was poised to transition into an enigmatic artist who would drop any kind of album without rhyme, reason, or explanation. We might even start calling him that ever-present buzzword: “reclusive.” He had the taste, peer respect, and industry connections to simply drop his music and go.

“I think Chapter One of my career is extremely oversaturated,” he told me. “I was thinking … I’m easily accessible. I’m on TikTok. I’m on YouTube. I’m on Twitter. I’m just everywhere. I didn’t like that.” But 18 months after our conversation, it feels like Yachty’s would-be triumphant next chapter is being marred by the same overexposure.

Instead of rap fans raving about his improbable career arc from a polarizing face of “mumble rap” to an accomplished ghostwriter who can explore almost any sound, people are riffing off jokes like “Don’t let that nigga Lil Yachty give you a McChicken, that nigga gon tell errbody.” This latest round of polarizing press, after breaking with his former Concrete Boys artist Karrahbooo, came after he went on live and pledged to fall back from social media. While part of him vies to lurk in the shadows like his friend Drake, solely communicating through ambiguous Instagram stories, maybe an internet baby just doesn’t know how to be mysterious.

Yachty’s rap career is defined by a collage of viral moments. His first single, 2015’s “One Night,” went viral on SoundCloud. He came into public consciousness during the 2016 live stream of Yeezy Season 3. His “Minnesota” hit was the score to the hip-hop generational war being waged on rap Twitter, with his ignorance of Biggie and 2Pac’s catalog not helping things. And his Everyday Struggle admission that he didn’t know the full details of his QC contract made him fodder for anyone seeking to soapbox about naive rappers signing bad deals. Yachty saw all of the criticism, and he pushed back, arguably losing the musical charm that made him a distinct artist by trying to prove he could rap. He told me, that during that period, “I was trying to be the spokesman for the new generation because no one else wanted to talk. I felt, ‘I’m going to stand up. I’m going to speak.’”

Later in the conversation, he told me, “If I’m not doing anything, I’m just usually browsing the internet, deep diving.” It makes sense that he scoured the rap internet and made inroads with Detroit cult heroes, collaborating with them on 2021’s Michigan Boy Boat . His online savvy is also why we see him co-signing up-and-coming acts like Dave Blunts, U.K. drill act Nemzzz, and, to much dismay, Ian.

Let’s Start Here feels like the work of a terminally online artist pursuing the cutting edge. His yodel-esque vocals roam free over the psychedelic rock palette crafted by musicians such as Alex G ,  Mac DeMarco , SADPONY, and Patrick Wimberly. It’s the kind of sonic excursion any rapper would flex about making, especially when they were counted out like Yachty had been in the early 2020s. He followed the album with several standout rap tracks including “The Secret Recipe” with J. Cole, which made our 2023 Best Rap Songs list. Even Kendrick rapping, “Yachty can’t give you no swag either,” in his “Euphoria” Drake diss lent him credibility; who in 2016, would have predicted Yachty being seen as the biggest rapper in the world’s not-so-secret weapon? He had become rap’s latest, greatest comeback story.

But it never stays strictly about the music with Yachty. During a Let’s Start Here listening event, he told the crowd he “wanted to be taken seriously as an artist and not just a SoundCloud rapper, not just a mumble rapper, not just a guy that made one hit.” Some people felt his comments implied that being “just” a rapper was inferior, but he told me that was “absolutely not” what he was trying to say. Regardless of his clarification, the perception of elitism stuck, and was intensified when he surmised that “hip-hop is in a terrible place” during our November 2023 Musicians on Musicians l ive event .

The hits have continued throughout 2024: He suggested that rappers were turning on Drake “’cause he’s the guy. It’s also probably that he fucked everyone’s bitch,” which feels like a childishly reductive stance given Kendrick’s (and others’) criticism of Drake’s culture-vulture-ish ways. In August, he talked to Andrew Schulz about leaking a bootleg of “Super Soaker,” a song that sampled online creator Mr. Hot Spot, who didn’t want to clear the song because of his recent religious conversion. Yachty’s decision to bring up the discrepancy on a podcast caused his fanbase, and Drake’s, to harass Mr. Hot Spot on social media, which felt like an inconsiderate power play. And that moment came shortly after he got the Big Apple hot when he said Bronx residents “cannot dress” while dressed like someone living uptown in 2008.

In a vacuum, any one of his comments is harmless enough to shrug off. But one after the other, they collectively paint a portrait of an artist who’s not as respectful, or tapped in, to culture as he posits. Shortly after the New York fashion comments, Yachty took to Instagram Live to clarify that he loves New York and declare, “I’m getting the fuck off that — I’m not doing no more talking. I don’t get shit else to say. I’m gone off this internet shit, I think I’m gone for the rest of the year. I swear to god.” Maybe he temporarily forgot he had a podcast. Just a week later, a clip from his A Safe Space pod went viral where he told his co-host Mitch that he was lucky to know him in a condescending tone. And days later, he crashed all the way out after a tweet where a fan divulged that Karrahbooo told her that Yachty bullied her.

During an emotionally charged Instagram Live session, he claimed that he wrote all of Karrahbooo’s music and threw the remaining Concrete Boys under the bus by claiming he dressed all of them. He and Karrahbooo have since been taking to their stories to clap back at each other, making a bad situation worse. Yachty’s currently being lambasted as the kind of person who can’t wait to tell the world what they did for you — you never wanna be that guy.

Perhaps people are letting the jokes fly for the moment, and Yachty dropping the right song will shift all the attention away from his mic miscues. Maybe Yachty doesn’t care what the public thinks. But it’s interesting to watch someone who’s repeatedly referenced not wanting to be accessible, and wishing he hadn’t opened his mouth, seemingly be unable to help himself from speaking out — in frequently self-sabotaging ways. It feels like the same digital soil that fertilized Yachty’s career is also his quicksand.

Best of Rolling Stone

The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs

All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked

The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

Recommended Stories

Viggle makes controllable ai characters for memes and visualizing ideas.

You might not know Viggle AI, but you've likely seen the viral memes it created. The Canadian AI startup is responsible for dozens of videos remixing the rapper Lil Yachty bouncing onstage at a summer music festival. In one video, Lil Yachty is replaced by Joaquin Phoenix's Joker.

Angel Reese announces she's out for season with injury, currently has most rebounds in WNBA history

Angel Reese's record-setting rookie season is over two weeks before anyone expected.

Nebraska blitzes Colorado in the first half for 28-10 win

Nebraska scored all its points in the first half.

Week 2 college football winners and losers: Michigan and Notre Dame have real work to do to make the playoff

Neither team's playoff hopes are toast, but both need to show some serious offensive improvement.

US Open women's final: Aryna Sabalenka holds off Jessica Pegula rally for straight sets victory

Sabalenka made the finals at the US Open last year and has won the last two Australian Open singles titles

A sad reality sets in for USMNT pre-2026 World Cup: empty seats, dull friendlies, loss to Canada

The USMNT lost 2-1 to Canada in the first of many boring friendlies in the buildup to the 2026 World Cup.

AEW All Out 2024 results, grades and analysis: Bryan Danielson retains, Will Ospreay shines once again

Despite the show taking place just two weeks after All In London, All Out delivered on several different levels, most notably in a Match of the Year candidate between Will Ospreay and Pac.

Free Parking: How to find free, low-cost and convenient parking near you

Parking apps typically compare prices for garages, lots, and other parking locations to help you find an open spot for a better price.

Jamal Murray agrees to four-year, $208 million max extension to stay with Denver Nuggets

Murray will receive $244 million guaranteed over the next five years as part of the deal.

Walmart deals are bursting with rare sales this weekend: Score a 50" TV for under $200

Fall is making its approach — and the Walmart savings are coming along with it, including major deals on tech, fall decor, kitchenware and more.