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Lil Yachty Announces The Field Trip Tour ‘23

QC ARTIST WILL SUPPORT HIS HIGHLY ACCLAIMED ALBUM LET’S START HERE. FOR 39 STOPS ACROSS THE GLOBE

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Lil Yachty  has announced a  39 stop global tour  in support of his most recent and highly acclaimed album  Let’s Start Here.  (Quality Control Music/Motown Records)  which was released in January of 2023 to much critical acclaim. Produced by  Live Nation  and  Bose ,  The Field Trip Tour  is set to kickoff Thursday, September 21st in Washington, DC at Echostage with stops across North America and Europe including New York, Toronto, Nashville, Oslo, Berlin, London and more before wrapping up on Sunday, December 17th in Vienna, Austria at Gasometer.

Artist pre sale will start Tuesday May 9th at 10 AM local time in North America and on Tuesday May 9th at 1pm BST in Europe. Additional pre sales will run throughout the week with general onsale starting Friday, May 12th at 10 AM local time in North America and on Friday, May 12th at 12pm local time in Europe. For more information and ticket purchasing please visit: fieldtriptour.com.

This tour announcement comes a month after Lil Yachty released the music video for his highly anticipated single  “Strike (Holster)” . Yachty started 2023 on a high note after his monumental psychedelic alternative rock album  Let’s Start Here.  received critical acclaim from both the press and his musical peers alike garnering him a cover on  Billboard  along with his musical guest debut performance on  Saturday Night Live (SNL)  where Yachty performed  “the BLACK seminole”  and  “drive ME crazy!”  with a live band.

THE FIELD TRIP TOUR ‘23 NORTH AMERICA DATES:

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Thu Sep 21 — Washington, DC — Echostage Fri Sep 22 — New York, NY — SummerStage in Central Park Sun Sep 24 — Philadelphia, PA — The Fillmore Mon Sep 25 — Raleigh, NC — The Ritz Wed Sep 27 — Montreal, QC — MTELUS Fri Sep 29 — Wallingford, CT — The Dome at Oakdale Sun Oct 01 — Pittsburgh, PA — Roxian Theatre Mon Oct 02 — Toronto, ON — HISTORY Wed Oct 04 — Charlotte, NC — The Fillmore Charlotte

Sun Oct 08 — Indianapolis, IN — Egyptian Room at Old National Centre Mon Oct 09 — Nashville, TN — Marathon Music Works Wed Oct 11 — New Orleans, LA — The Fillmore Sun Oct 15 — Tempe, AZ — Marquee Theatre

Tue Oct 17 — San Diego, CA — SOMA Sat Oct 21 — Vancouver, BC — UBC – Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre Sun Oct 22 — Portland, OR — McMenamins Crystal Ballroom Thu Oct 26 — Las Vegas, NV — Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas Fri Oct 27 — Salt Lake City, UT — The Complex Sun Oct 29 — Denver, CO — Fillmore Auditorium Tue Oct 31 — St. Louis, MO — The Pageant Thu Nov 02 — Minneapolis, MN — Fillmore Sat Nov 04 — Madison, WI — The Sylvee Sun Nov 05 — Detroit, MI — The Fillmore

THE FIELD TRIP TOUR ‘23 EUROPE DATES:  Wed Nov 22 — Oslo, Norway — Sentrum Scene Fri Nov 24 — Stockholm, Sweden — Fryhuset Sat Nov 25 — Copenhagen, Denmark — KB Hallen

Mon Nov 27 — Berlin, Germany — Columbiahalle Tue Nov 28 — Cologne, Germany — Palladium Thu Nov 30 — Manchester, UK — O2 Victoria Warehouse Fri Dec 01 — London, UK — OVO Wembley Arena Sun Dec 03 — Glasgow, UK — O2 Academy Mon Dec 04 — Birmingham, UK — O2 Academy Wed Dec 06 — Paris, France — Salle Pleyel Fri Dec 08 — Tilburg, Netherlands — Poppodium013 Sun Dec 10 — Brussels, Belgium — Ancienne Belgique Tue Dec 12 — Barcelona, Spain — Razzmatazz Thu Dec 14 — Milan, Italy — Fabrique Sat Dec 16 — Zurich, Switzerland — Komplex 457 Sun Dec 17 — Vienna, Austria — Gasometer

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Lil Yachty Schedules ‘The Field Trip’ North American Tour for Fall 2023

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Let’s Start Here , the latest studio album from Lil Yachty , will get the proper live treatment on the rapper’s newly announced The Field Trip tour . Kicking off later this year, the 39-date world tour will include 23 stops in North America.

The Field Trip tour will begin on September 21 in Washington D.C. and conclude its North American leg on November 5 in Detroit. Lil Yachty will also make stops in New York, Philadelphia, Montreal, Toronto, Charlotte, New Orleans, San Diego, Portland, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, and more.

General sale for the tour will launch on Friday, May 12 at 10 a.m. local time.

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Lil Yachty 2023 North American Tour Dates Sept. 21 — Washington, D.C. @ Echostage Sept. 22 — New York, NY @ SummerStage in Central Park Sept. 24 — Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore Sept. 25 — Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz Sept. 27 — Montreal, QC @ MTELUS Sept. 29 — Wallingford, CT @ The Dome at Oakdale Oct. 1 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Roxian Theatre Oct. 2 — Toronto, ON @ HISTORY Oct. 4 — Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore Charlotte Oct. 8 — Indianapolis, IN @ Egyptian Room at Old National Centre Oct. 9 — Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works Oct. 11 — New Orleans, LA @ The Fillmore Oct. 15 — Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre Oct. 17 — San Diego, CA @ SOMA Oct. 21 — Vancouver, BC @ UBC – Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre Oct. 22 — Portland, OR @ McMenamins Crystal Ballroom Oct. 26 — Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas Oct. 27 — Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex Oct. 29 — Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium Oct. 31 — St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant Nov. 2 — Minneapolis, MN @ Fillmore Nov. 4 — Madison, WI @ The Sylvee Nov. 5 — Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore

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Lil Yachty has announced a 39 stop global tour in support of his most recent and highly acclaimed album Let’s Start Here . (Quality Control Music/Motown Records), which was released in January of 2023 to much critical acclaim.

Produced by Live Nation and Bose, The Field Trip Tour is set to kickoff Thursday, September 21s in Washington, DC at Echostage with stops across North America and Europe including New York, Toronto, Nashville, Oslo, Berlin, London, and more before wrapping up on Sunday, December 17 in Vienna, Austria at Gasometer.

Artist pre-sale will start Tuesday May 9 at 10 AM local time in North America and on Tuesday May 9 at 1pm BST in Europe. Additional presales will run throughout the week with general onsale starting Friday, May 12 at 10 AM local time in North America and on Friday, May 12 at 12pm local time in Europe.

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This tour announcement comes a month after Lil Yachty released the music video for his highly anticipated single “Strike (Holster).” Yachty started 2023 on a high note after his monumental psychedelic alternative rock album Let’s Start Here. received critical acclaim from both the press and his musical peers alike. The album garnered him a cover on Billboard along with his musical guest debut performance on Saturday Night Live (SNL) where Yachty performed “the BLACK seminole” and “drive ME crazy!” with a live band.

When the album was released,  Yachty joined Zane Lowe  in-studio on Apple Music 1 to discuss his ambitious new project. He told Apple Music about entering the second chapter of his career with the creative departure, shining a light on other eras of music and studying Pink Floyd, aiming to create a cohesive “no skips” project, and more.

He also chatted with Lowe about evolving as an artist and embracing new sources of inspiration. Additionally, he explained the origins of  “Poland,”  his close relationship with  Drake , getting a cosign from  Visit Lil Yachty’s official website for tour dates and more information.

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“I Just Care a Lot”: Lil Yachty Opens up About His Tour and Friendship With Drake

Lil Yachty checked in with Complex in an exclusive pre-tour interview.

Lil Yachty is in an energized state of stillness. If that sounds paradoxical, that’s because it is. It’s the Wednesday night before the first show of his 2023 tour and he’s had an hour of sleep. But between yawns, it’s clear that Yachty is fresh off of the high of what’s bound to be a fun run.

Aside from a 39-stop global tour, Yachty has been working closely with Drake on For All the Dogs, and there’s fresh ink on a few new partnerships, including an exciting one with C4 Energy—which, it becomes very clear, he’ll be leaning on.

Nine months after the release of what is debatably his best project to date, Lil Yachty checked in with Complex in an exclusive pre-tour interview from his hotel in Washington D.C., the night before his tour starts, to share what he’s been overthinking as of late, run us through his emotions on what our team is deeming a tour that exhibits a “versatile,” evolving Yachty, and opine on Drake’s upcoming album, which he’s heavily involved in. How are you feeling? What type of energy are you on today? I was packing all night, I didn't go to sleep…. I’m an overthinker when it comes to getting dressed, so I packed until, like, seven, and then I got up and got ready at 7:50, so, like, I didn't really sleep last night…but I had so much energy this morning for some reason.

It’s going to be a long run of tour and it sounds like you're probably gonna need a lot of energy so I can think of a few reasons why you hopped into this one, but what makes the partnership, especially a multiyear partnership, with C4 a good pairing for you? I think just finding a home again, you know, I hate to advertise being that guy that never sleeps. But I think I found a home for something to fuel my days and nights because I am the guy who never sleeps. I mean literally never. So it made the most sense. To find a family—almost like a joint family for the boosting of my energy. And with the collaboration, the look and the style of the brand was very much on brand for me, you know, with the swag…it just didn't feel simple or some, like, muscle man drink, you know? It was very much cool and I only like to do things that feel like me. I'm so sketchy when I feel like something is not me. Kids are really into energy drinks these days. I'm not one of them. I'm a tea and coffee girl but I feel like when I say kids, I'm including the 20-somethings like us… That’s because this world is run on streamers, gamers, and content creators [who are] putting in those heavy-duty hours creating that content.

Yeah. I have friends outside of those spaces though who are, like, hooked on Celsius, Red Bull, C4, and all these other energy drinks. What’s up with that? I would never speak for anyone, but I do think that the younger generation now more than ever are putting in hours and working long hours more than ever before, whether working early morning or working late nights. And on top of that, you're young. So it's not like you're only working, you're also probably maintaining a life or trying to, you know…balancing so many things which then comes the point of, “Man. It's only so much time in a day. Gotta keep that clock going.”

Yeah. Well, now that you’re on tour, what have you been listening to these days to keep you going? I've been listening to For All the Dogs man. That's, that's all I've been bumping. My head been in there. For real though, that's all I really been listening to.

Friendship aside, what is it about it that you love that has you keep coming back to it? It's just fresh and fun if you ask me. But I mean, that's not the only thing I listen to. I also listen to a lot of John Carroll Kirby, I gotta say that because I do listen to a lot of John Caroll Kirby right now because he is just such a fucking sick jazz musician and his spin on jazz is so cool. But besides [that], … For All The Dogs is just cool. And last time I checked (and, I check every fucking day) what is out right now? Like, musically, what is even…what's happening right now? Nothing. You know what I'm saying? So, being a part of something that's being created that is so fresh, it's so here, it's so ready, you know what I'm saying? Like it's, it's ready and I think that's the part.

Drake's been on this tour run and you've been around for some of it, you know, what have you learned from him from touring? Not much. Me and him are kind of different when it comes to lifestyle. Like we're really similar as people, but as far as life, we're very different. Like, I don't go out, he loves to go out, he loves to host people, he loves to party and I don’t like people that much. And I record every day all day,where he kind of is very selective on his recording days as he has more of a life than I do. And, he is much more into actually living life as to where I am literally trying to record music every day. And I don't know if I get that from him of like, “Oh, I should go live a life too,” because I enjoy not living life, I enjoy making music. This is my fun. I hate going out. So, if anything, I just realized that you can be so similar to somebody yet so different at the same time.

"Drake is much more into actually living life as to where I am literally trying to record music every day. And I don't know if I get that from him of like, 'Oh, I should go live a life too,' because I enjoy not living life, I enjoy making music."

And he's obviously learned a lot from you too. You've helped with his choices, like with the cover artwork of Her Loss . You've given insight and produced on the upcoming project. Do you feel like a creative director of sorts for Drake at times? What's that like? I mean, I think I care, you know? As a friend, I just care a lot as a friend, I care about all my friends, you know? It just so happens that one of my friends is one of the biggest artists in the world. But I'm a very supportive, open friend. I'm not a guy to show love in private. I publicly show love, and I think it sometimes makes a lot of people…people have things to say, but, it never bothered me. I'm a public love shower, and that's beautiful.

You said the word so I have to ask now, because I ask it of most artists I speak to. How do you define love? I think it is an idea of happiness and a version of super strength; strong energy that’s connected spiritually. It’s when you feel embedded in someone and you want them to be great. It changes depending on the form of love. I mean, we [can] just sit down and have a love class/conversation if you want. But I think it just depends on the relationship and the intent.

WELL, I do want to have a love class or larger conversation, so we'll have to do that another time. But, getting back to the music—I'm excited to hear that you're working on new stuff. I love Let’s Start Here . You’ve been called many things. What are some labels that you want to do away with and others you want to maybe impose on yourself now? What would you call this next era? I'm just an artist, you know? I'm not a mumble rapper. I'm not a one-hit wonder. I'm not a…I don't know, I'm just an artist. I love to rap. I love to sing. I love to write. I love to produce. I'm just an artist, and you should never expect anything because I will always do something unexpected. Just don't expect it. I'm gonna just start doing ASMR of me making peanut butter jelly sandwiches. Don't expect anything because imma always do the opposite. You know, I hate to disappoint, but I'm here to disappoint if you start expecting shit.

You did say you're making music every day. So, how do you describe what you're making now? How do you feel about it? It's rap shit. Making Let’s Start Here took time. Every day. But I think about it every day and I'm so excited to start the next album. But I'm just having fun making raps though, and tons of shit that I'm into putting out. I'm so excited as to what I have next and I got some things, I got some things in the pipeline, and it's coming real soon. I'm excited.

It's funny, you recently said you want to be mentioned in certain conversations, including “stupid shit,” like the Complex list of best albums of the year, which [ laughs ], I'll say I don't think is stupid shit, but, can you elaborate on that? I say stupid shit because I think that you should never grade your work based on someone else's opinion. That's why I call it stupid. You know? But, I still do it. I shouldn't say my albums aren’t good because I didn't get a Grammy or because Complex didn't nominate, or I didn't make the Top 10 Apple chart; I shouldn't do that because there are gonna be millions of people in the world who still think it's great. It's something that could possibly diminish all of my hard work and my brain if I allow it to. First-week numbers and that kind of stuff.

Well, we liked it. So, continue to keep an eye on that list. I appreciate it. I'm so grateful when people…and I hate saying this because I always feel like “I don't give a fuck if you don't like it or not [ laughs ].” But I always am so grateful and appreciative when people are into anything that I make. I think now a little less than it used to, but for the longest [time], it would just shock me that people even liked my music. I was like, “For real?” I still don't even really believe people listen to me.

"I always am so grateful and appreciative when people are into anything that I make.

I feel like it just shines through when it's something that you like and it's something that you had fun making, that shines through and that makes people appreciate it all the more. So, yeah—I know you’re not coming to LA but I'll have to catch you somewhere else. It's such a great show. I'm so excited. I've never done a show like this ever. It feels cool.

Tell me a little bit about it. I have no clue how people are gonna react. I'm so nervous because it is a different show, and I haven't toured in five years, and I toured three times before in 2017, and when I would tour those three tours, I'd see super fans. I’d see the same people a lot of times. They loved me.

And if I know anything, I imagine these people are gonna come again. It's a different show, and I've grown so much and so much has changed in my life. And to be honest, like I said, I haven't done a Lil Yachty show in five years, I've done shows, I've done festivals. I've done college shows and these are my shows, but there are also other people on the bill, so people come and see me but they come and see this person or maybe they were just at school and it was an event for the night or whatever. I went on, like, a yearly run of just college shows and festivals. So these are my first shows where people are paying hard tickets to go see Lil Yachty. And I just am feeling all the emotions.

What are you nervous about? I just haven't really played this album many times. I get to really see my fans react to it, and it's a different show than I'm used to, it's not the average, moshpit, jump around show. So, we just have to see how people react.

What are you most excited about? I'm such an analytical person. I just like to watch and see how people react.

Is there anything else you wanna say about it? Come with an open mind.

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Lil Yachty On His Big Rock Pivot: ‘F-ck Any of the Albums I Dropped Before This One’

With his adventurous, psychedelic new album, 'Let's Start Here,' he's left mumble rap behind — and finally created a project he's proud of.

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Lil Yachty, presented by Doritos, will perform at Billboard Presents The Stage at SXSW on March 16 .

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Someone has sparked a blunt in the planetarium.

It may be a school night, but no one has come to the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, N.J., to learn. Instead, the hundreds of fans packed into the domed theater on Jan. 26 have come to hear Lil Yachty’s latest album as he intended: straight through — and with an open mind. Or, as Yachty says with a mischievous smile: “I hope y’all took some sh-t.”

For the next 57 minutes and 16 seconds, graphics of exploding spaceships, green giraffes and a quiet road through Joshua Tree National Park accompany Yachty’s sonically divergent — and at this point, unreleased — fifth album, Let’s Start Here . For a psychedelic rock project that plays like one long song, the visual aids not only help attendees embrace the bizarre, but also function as a road map for Yachty’s far-out trip, signaling that there is, in fact, a tracklist.

It’s a night the artist has arguably been waiting for his whole career — to finally release an album he feels proud of. An album that was, he says, made “from scratch” with all live instrumentation. An album that opens with a nearly seven-minute opus, “the BLACK seminole.,” that he claims he had to fight most of his collaborative team to keep as one, not two songs. An album that, unlike his others, has few features and is instead rich with co-writers like Mac DeMarco, Nick Hakim, Alex G and members of MGMT, Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Chairlift. An album he believes will finally earn him the respect and recognition he has always sought.

Sitting in a Brooklyn studio in East Williamsburg not far from where he made most of Let’s Start Here in neighboring Greenpoint, it’s clear he has been waiting to talk about this project in depth for some time. Yachty is an open book, willing to answer anything — and share any opinion. (Especially on the slice of pizza he has been brought, which he declares “tastes like ass.”) Perhaps his most controversial take at the moment? “F-ck any of the albums I dropped before this one.”

His desire to move on from his past is understandable. When Yachty entered the industry in his mid-teens with his 2016 major-label debut, the Lil Boat mixtape, featuring the breakout hit “One Night,” he found that along with fame came sailing the internet’s choppy waters. Skeptics often took him to task for not knowing — or caring, maybe — about rap’s roots, and he never shied away from sharing hot takes on Twitter. With his willingness and ability to straddle pop and hip-hop, Yachty produced music he once called “bubble-gum trap” (he has since denounced that phrase) that polarized audiences and critics. Meanwhile, his nonchalant delivery got him labeled as a mumble rapper — another identifier he was never fond of because it felt dismissive of his talent.

“There’s a lot of kids who haven’t heard any of my references,” he continues. “They don’t know anything about Bon Iver or Pink Floyd or Black Sabbath or James Brown. I wanted to show people a different side of me — and that I can do anything, most importantly.”

Let’s Start Here is proof. Growing up in Atlanta, the artist born Miles McCollum was heavily influenced by his father, a photographer who introduced him to all kinds of sounds. Yachty, once easily identifiable by his bright red braids, found early success by posting songs like “One Night” to SoundCloud, catching the attention of Kevin “Coach K” Lee, co-founder/COO of Quality Control Music, now home to Migos, Lil Baby and City Girls. In 2015, Coach K began managing Yachty, who in summer 2016 signed a joint-venture deal with Motown, Capitol Records and Quality Control.

“Yachty was me when I was 18 years old, when I signed him. He was actually me,” says Coach K today. (In 2021, Adam Kluger, whose clients include Bhad Bhabie, began co-managing Yachty.) “All the eclectic, different things, we shared that with each other. He had been wanting to make this album from the first day we signed him. But you know — coming as a hip-hop artist, you have to play the game.”

Yachty played it well. To date, he has charted 17 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 , including two top 10 hits for his features on DRAM’s melodic 2016 smash “Broccoli” and Kyle’s 2017 pop-rap track “iSpy.” His third-highest-charting entry arrived unexpectedly last year: the 93-second “Poland,” a track Yachty recorded in about 10 minutes where his warbly vocals more closely resemble singing than rapping. ( Let’s Start Here collaborator SADPONY saw “Poland” as a temperature check that proved “people are going to like this Yachty.”)

Beginning with 2016’s Lil Boat mixtape, all eight of Yachty’s major-label-released albums and mixtapes have charted on the Billboard 200 . Three have entered the top 10, including Let’s Start Here , which debuted and peaked at No. 9. And while Yachty has only scored one No. 1 album before ( Teenage Emotions topped Rap Album Sales), Let’s Start Here debuted atop three genre charts: Top Rock & Alternative Albums , Top Rock Albums and Top Alternative Albums .

“It feels good to know that people in that world received this so well,” says Motown Records vp of A&R Gelareh Rouzbehani. “I think it’s a testament to Yachty going in and saying, ‘F-ck what everyone thinks. I’m going to create something that I’ve always wanted to make — and let us hope the world f-cking loves it.’ ”

Yet despite Let’s Start Here ’s many high-profile supporters, some longtime detractors and fans alike were quick to criticize certain aspects of it, from its art — Yachty quote-tweeted one remark , succinctly replying, “shut up” — to the music itself. Once again, he found himself facing another tidal wave of discourse. But this time, he was ready to ride it. “This release,” Kluger says, “gave him a lot of confidence.”

“I was always kind of nervous to put out music, but now I’m on some other sh-t,” Yachty says. “It was a lot of self-assessing and being very real about not being happy with where I was musically, knowing I’m better than where I am. Because the sh-t I was making did not add up to the sh-t I listened to.

“I just wanted more,” he continues. “I want to be remembered. I want to be respected.”

Last spring, Lil Yachty gathered his family, collaborators and team at famed Texas studio complex Sonic Ranch.

“I remember I got there at night and drove down because this place is like 30 miles outside El Paso,” Coach K says. “I walked in the room and just saw all these instruments and sh-t, and the vibe was just so ill. And I just started smiling. All the producers were in the room, his assistant, his dad. Yachty comes in, puts the album on. We got to the second song, and I told everybody, ‘Stop the music.’ I walked over to him and just said, ‘Man, give me a hug.’ I was like, ‘Yachty, I am so proud of you.’ He came into the game bold, but [to make] this album, you have to be very bold. And to know that he finally did it, it was overwhelming.”

SADPONY (aka Jeremiah Raisen) — who executive-produced Let’s Start Here and, in doing so, spent nearly eight straight months with Yachty — says the time at Sonic Ranch was the perfect way to cap off the months of tunnel vision required while making the album in Brooklyn. “That was new alone,” says Yachty. “I’ve recorded every album in Atlanta at [Quality Control]. That was the first time I recorded away from home. First time I recorded with a new engineer,” Miles B.A. Robinson, a Saddle Creek artist.

Yachty couldn’t wait to put it out, and says he turned it in “a long time ago. I think it was just label sh-t and trying to figure out the right time to release it.” For Coach K, it was imperative to have the physical product ready on release date, given that Yachty had made “an experience” of an album. And lately, most pressing plants have an average turnaround time of six to eight months.

Fans, however, were impatient. On Christmas, one month before Let’s Start Here would arrive, the album leaked online. It was dubbed Sonic Ranch . “Everyone was home with their families, so no one could pull it off the internet,” recalls Yachty. “That was really depressing and frustrating.”

Then, weeks later, the album art, tracklist and release date also leaked. “My label made a mistake and sent preorders to Amazon too early, and [the site] posted it,” Yachty says. “So I wasn’t able to do the actual rollout for my album that I wanted to. Nothing was a secret anymore. It was all out. I had a whole plan that I had to cancel.” He says the biggest loss was various videos he made to introduce and contextualize the project, all of which “were really weird … [But] I wasn’t introducing it anymore. People already knew.” Only one, called “Department of Mental Tranquility,” made it out, just days before the album.

Yachty says he wasn’t necessarily seeking a mental escape before making Let’s Start Here , but confesses that acid gave him one anyway. “I guess maybe the music went along with it,” he says. The album title changed four or five times, he says, from Momentary Bliss (“It was meant to take you away from reality … where you’re truly listening”) to 180 Degrees (“Because it’s the complete opposite of anything I’ve ever done, but people were like, ‘It’s too on the nose’ ”) to, ultimately, Let’s Start Here — the best way, he decided, to succinctly summarize where he was as an artist: a seven-year veteran, but at 25 years old, still eager to begin a new chapter.

Taking inspiration from Dark Side , Yachty relied on three women’s voices throughout the album, enlisting Fousheé, Justine Skye and Diana Gordon. Otherwise, guest vocals are spare. Daniel Caesar features on album closer “Reach the Sunshine.,” while the late Bob Ross (of The Joy of Painting fame) has a historic posthumous feature on “We Saw the Sun!”

Rouzbehani tells Billboard that Ross’ estate declined Yachty’s request at first: “I think a big concern of theirs was that Yachty is known as a rapper, and Bob Ross and his brand are very clean. They didn’t want to associate with anything explicit.” But Yachty was adamant, and Rouzbehani played the track for Ross’ team and also sent the entire album’s lyrics to set the group at ease. “With a lot of back-and-forth, we got the call,” she says. “Yachty is the first artist that has gotten a Bob Ross clearance in history.”

From the start, Coach K believed Let’s Start Here would open lots of doors for Yachty — and ultimately, other artists, too. Questlove may have said it best, posting the album art on Instagram with a lengthy caption that read in part: “this lp might be the most surprising transition of any music career I’ve witnessed in a min, especially under the umbrella of hip hop … Sh-t like this (envelope pushing) got me hyped about music’s future.”

Recently, Lil Yachty held auditions for an all-women touring band. “It was an experience for like Simon Cowell or Randy [Jackson],” he says, offering a simple explanation for the choice: “In my life, women are superheroes.”

And according to Yachty, pulling off his show will take superhuman strength: “Because the show has to match the album. It has to be big.” As eager as he was to release Let’s Start Here , he’s even more antsy to perform it live — but planning a tour, he says, required gauging the reaction to it. “This is so new for me, and to be quite honest with you, the label [didn’t] know how [the album] would do,” he says. “Also, I haven’t dropped an album in like three years. So we don’t even know how to plan a tour right now because it has been so long and my music is so different.”

While Yachty’s last full-length studio album, Lil Boat 3 , arrived in 2020, he released the Michigan Boy Boat mixtape in 2021, a project as reverential of the state’s flourishing hip-hop scenes in Detroit and Flint as Let’s Start Here is of its psych-rock touchstones. And though he claims he doesn’t do much with his days, his recent accomplishments, both musical and beyond, suggest otherwise. He launched his own cryptocurrency, YachtyCoin, at the end of 2020; signed his first artist, Draft Day, to his Concrete Boyz label at the start of 2021; invested in the Jewish dating app Lox Club; and launched his own line of frozen pizza, Yachty’s Pizzeria, last September. (He has famously declared he has never eaten a vegetable; at his Jersey City listening event, there was an abundance of candy, doughnut holes and Frosted Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop-Tarts.)

But there are only two things that seem to remotely excite him, first and foremost of which is being a father. As proud as he is of Let’s Start Here , he says it comes in second to having his now 1-year-old daughter — though he says with a laugh that she “doesn’t really give a f-ck” about his music yet. “I haven’t played [this album] for her, but her mom plays her my old stuff,” he continues. “The mother of my child is Dominican and Puerto Rican, so she loves Selena — she plays her a lot . [We watch] the Selena movie with Jennifer Lopez a sh-t ton and a lot of Disney movie sh-t, like Frozen , Lion King and that type of vibe.”

Aside from being a dad, he most cares about working with other artists. Recently, he flew eight of his biggest fans — most of whom he has kept in touch with for years — to Atlanta. He had them over, played Let’s Start Here , took them to dinner and bowling, introduced them to his mom and dad, and then showed them a documentary he made for the album. (He’s not sure if he’ll release it.) One of the fans is an aspiring rapper; naturally, the two made a song together.

Yachty wants to keep working with artists and producers outside of hip-hop, mentioning the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and even sharing his dream of writing a ballad for Elton John. (“I know I could write him a beautiful song.”) With South Korean music company HYBE’s recent purchase of Quality Control — a $300 million deal — Yachty’s realm of possibility is bigger than ever.

But he’s not ruling out his genre roots. Arguably, Let’s Start Here was made for the peers and heroes he played it for first — and was inspired by hip-hop’s chameleons. “I would love to do a project with Tyler [The Creator],” says Yachty. “He’s the reason I made this album. He’s the one who told me to do it, just go for it. He’s so confident and I have so much respect for him because he takes me seriously, and he always has.”

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This story originally appeared in the March 11, 2023, issue of Billboard.

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Here Is Lil Yachty’s ‘The Field Trip Tour’ Setlist

This fall, Lil Yachty is bringing his fans along on one hell of a field trip. His Field Trip Tour kicked off last night in Washington, DC, giving us a look at what to expect for the coming 38 dates. With tour openers Nick Hakim, Jean Dawson, and Nala Sinephro in tow, Yachty is bringing songs from across his discography — from his breakout mixtape track “Minnesota” to his sprawling indie rock experiment Let’s Start Here — to dates across North America and Europe until mid-December (and even a Phil Collins cover!). You can check out the setlist ( courtesy of setlist.fm ) and remaining tour dates below.

01. “Drive Me Crazy!” 02. “The Ride-” 03. “Pretty” 04. “Should I B?” 05. “Say Something” 06. “In The Air Tonight” (Phil Collins Cover)

07. “Solo Steppin Crete Boy” 08. “Slide” 09. “Split / Whole Time” 10. “Split” 11. “Get Dripped” 12. “Yacht Club” 13. “Nbayoungboat” 14. “Flex Up” 15. “Coffin” 16. “From The D To The A” 17. “Minnesota” 18. “Broccoli” 19. “iSpy” 20. “Tesla” 21. “Strike (Holster)” 22. “One Night”

23. “Ive Officially Lost Vision!!!!” 24. “The Zone~” 25. “We Saw The Sun!” 26. “The Black Seminole.”

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Lil Yachty, Anne-Marie and Beat Stage at Open'er 2023!

Lil Yachty - an extremely unobvious artist from Atlanta and the author of the viral hit "Poland" and Anne-Marie - one of the most popular contemporary pop singers from the UK, join the Orange Main Stage line-up at Open'er 2023. Today we also reveal the full Beat Stage line-up - 14 artists!

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Gilbert Masengeli Sentence: Possible Jail Term, Fine Acting Police IG Could Face on Friday

• On Monday, September 13, Justice Lawrence Mugambi found Acting Inspector General of Police Gilbert Masengeli guilty of contempt of court
• According to the law, the judge might sentence Masengeli to jail or fine him an amount not exceeding KSh 200,000
• High Court Advocate J.V Mwongole told TUKO.co.ke that Justice Mugambi might sentence the acting IG to three years in jail depending on the interpretation of his offences

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Nairobi - On Friday, September 13, High Court Judge Lawrence Mugambi is expected to sentence Acting Inspector General of Police Gilbert Masengeli.

How Lawrence Mugambi ruled against Masengeli

In a ruling on Monday, September 9, Justice Mugambi found Masengeli guilty of contempt of court after repeatedly ignoring summons to appear in court.

Acting IG Masengeli asks Kenyans to respect rule of law after ignoring court orders 6 times

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Justice Mugambi ruled that Masengeli had continued to hold the court at ransom after he failed to honour six court summons.

The judge argued that the court could no longer ascertain what could have happened to the petitioners because of the acting IG's action.

"It is my finding that the Acting Inspector General of Police Gilbert Masengeli is guilty of contempt of court, and the court ought to punish him accordingly. Impunity and open defiance will not be allowed," Justice Mugambi ruled.

Why Masengeli was required to appear in court

Masengeli had been required to appear in court to explain the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of three people in Kitengela.

Before the ruling, lawyers, including those representing the Law Society of Kenya (LSK), asked the judge to jail Masengeli for six months at the Kamiti Maximum Prison.

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Former LSK president Nelson Havi asked the judge to fine the acting IG, which he said should be deducted from his salary.

“Gilbert Masengeli has been given the right to be heard and he has refused, he must bear personal responsibility so that you impose heaviest consequences of six months and a fine to be deducted from his salary,” Havi urged the judge.

What is Contempt of Court

According to the Contempt of Court Act of 2022 , civil contempt, which Masengeli is facing, means willful disobedience of any judgment, decree, direction, order, or other process of a court or willful breach of an undertaking given to a court.

Punishment for contempt of court

The law provides that a person found to have equity of contempt in court is liable for a fine not exceeding KSh 200,000 or imprisonment not exceeding six months.

"Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act or in any other written law, a person who is convicted of contempt of court is liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to both."

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Can Masengeli be sentenced to 3 years in jail?

In Masengeli's case, Justice Mugambi might sentence the acting police boss to a maximum of three years in jail

Speaking exclusively to TUKO.co.ke , High Court Advocate J.V Mwongole, argued that the judge might treat Masengeli as a serial offender and sentence him on the six times he disobeyed the court.

Mwongole pointed out that, given past judgements, the acting IG is likely to be fined no more than KSh 200,000.

If the judge decides to treat disobeying a court order as a single violation, the court may sentence him to six months.

"But If the judge treats it as a case of repeated disobedience totalling to six, then the IG might be sentenced up to three years in jail, that's six months for every court order disobeyed. This is unlikely to happen. The most likely scenario is a fine, which will not exceed KSh 200,000," Mwongole said.

ICJ slams Gilbert Masengeli for ignoring summons, accuses police of intimidation: "We're concerned"

However, Mwongole said the biggest challenge would be enforcing the sentence that Justice Mugambi would pass.

He highlighted an example where former IG Joseph Boinnet was fined KSh 200,000 after he was found guilty of contempt of court.

"The biggest challenge will be how the sentence will be enforced. Former IG Joseph Boinnet was fined KSh 200,000 during his tenure, but he never paid, and nothing has happened to him. Will Masengeli's case be different?" he posed.

What ICJ Kenya said about Masengeli's case

Elsewhere, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ Kenya) called out the Acting Inspector General of Police for repeatedly defying court orders.

In a statement on Tuesday, September 10, ICJ Kenya urged Masengeli to comply with judicial directives and appear before the court.

The commission condemned the Acting IG for failing to explain the disappearance of Jamil Longton Hashim, his brother Aslam Longton, and activist Bob Michemi Njagi, who men reportedly abducted believed to be police officers during anti-government protests in Kitengela on August 19, 2024.

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Amos Khaemba (Current affairs editor) Amos Khaemba is an accredited journalist and current affairs editor at TUKO.co.ke. He holds a degree in Communication and Journalism from Moi University having graduated in 2015. Attended training by Google News Initiative Journalism. Has over 2 years of experience in the digital media industry. Previously worked at Kenya News Agency and Kivumbi.co.ke. Email: [email protected]

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