Lil Yachty Hits The Firing Range In New Video

BYLavender AlexandriaPublished on October 12, 2023789 Views

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Lil Yachty became the newest rapper to show off his shooting skills.

Lil Yachty has had a busy 2023. He led the year off by switching genres entirely and releasing an album inspired by psychedelic rock. Let's Start Here dropped all the way back in January and surprised fans with longer songs, classic rock instrumentation, and no rapping at all throughout. The move garnered quite a bit of critical acclaim for Yachty and spawned some of his biggest hits in years with tracks like "drive me crazy" and "the black seminole." But it wasn't too long before Yachty was back to a more familiar style to his fans.

Since then he's dropped 5 singles that take the rap approach that many are used to. The first was "Strike (Holster)" which dropped in April. It's become the most popular of the bunch racking up over 54 million streams on Spotify in the months since it first dropped. He followed that up with the double single "SOLO STEPPIN CRETE BOY" and "Slide" in August. Later that month he followed up again with an even wilder new song called "TESLA." Finally, just last month, he and J. Cole teamed up for a new single called "The Secret Recipe." The track clicked with fans immediately and debuted at number 92 on the Hot 100 in its first week.

Lil Yachty Hits The Firing Range

Now in a new video making the rounds online, Yachty is spending some of his free time at the firing range. The clip is short and very reminiscent of another recent video of Lil Baby. Given the backlash Baby received for his mediocre performance at the range, fans instantly compared the two. "Better than the baby video," the top comment on the post reads.

Most recently, Lil Yachty teamed up with Drake. The two appear together on a track from Drizzy's new album For All The Dogs. "Another Late Night" is one of the final tracks on the album and sees Yachty and Drake mostly just having fun and acting goofy. What do you think of the new video of Lil Yachty hitting the firing range? Let us know in the comment section below.

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Lavender Alexandria

Lavender Alexandria is a music and culture journalist based in Los Angeles, California. She’s covered dozens of musical genres and styles from the most mainstream to the most experimental and underground on her blog and accompanying YouTube channel that looks at music, pop culture, and Billboard charts since 2017: Lav’s Music Corner. Lavender has produced editorial and listicle content both in written and video form over the past far years and has also interviewed up-and-coming artists like Censored Dialogue. Her experiences covering culture have taken her from Hyperpop parties in LA to underground rap shows in Atlanta, to DIY punk shows in Charlotte. Lavender has also written for iHeartRadio, covering some of the biggest artists in Hip Hop such as Ice Spice, Drake, Doja Cat and Cardi B. She also has bylines with ScreenRant and continues to write for Ringtone magazine. Lavender is a lifelong Charlotte Hornets fan and her favorite rap artists include Clipping, Little Simz, Earl Sweatshirt, and Kendrick Lamar.