Lil Yachty Explains Why He Has An All-Female Band: ‘I Feel Like [Women] Rule The World’

Lil Yachty not too long ago kickstarted his worldwide tour with an all-female band, and he has a reasonably easy clarification for why he selected to construction his workforce that approach.

On Monday (September 25), Shawn Setaro sat down with the Atlanta rapper to debate his 42-date Discipline Journey Tour for Grammy.com. Throughout the chat, he was requested why he selected to solely rent ladies to assist his stage act.

“My life is surrounded by ladies,” he defined. “My two assistants, my mom as a supervisor, plenty of my buddies are ladies. Ladies actually assist me all through my day.”

He continued: “I simply assume that ladies are so highly effective. I really feel like they rule the world. They’re a very powerful facet to this world they usually don’t get sufficient credit score or shine, particularly black ladies. In order that was my aura behind it. I simply wished to showcase that ladies can shred simply nearly as good as males.”

As @LilYachty hits the highway for his 42-date world tour, the rapper particulars how he’ll be bringing his trippy album ‘Let’s Begin Right here.’ to life — and why he appears like his profession is barely simply getting began. 🎵 https://t.co/J3fvC2gezJ

— Recording Academy / GRAMMYs (@RecordingAcad) September 25, 2023

Earlier this 12 months, Yachty introduced the itinerary for his world trek that commenced final week. The cross-national run was deliberate to assist his psychedelic rock album, Let’s Begin Right here, that arrived in January.

He performed his first present on September 21 in Washington, D.C., and is about to make stops throughout the nation in Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Las Vegas, San Diego and Denver, earlier than wrapping issues up on November 5 in Detroit.

Lil Boat will then journey throughout the pond to play dates in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the U.Ok., France, Spain, Italy and extra. The tour then come to an in depth in Austria on December 17.

In different information, Yachty not too long ago issued a direct message to those that have been judging his new look after kicking his lean behavior. In early September, the 26-year-old took to Instagram to indicate off his new look, flaunting a newfound buzz reduce (which was hidden underneath a cap) and slimmed-down physique in a sequence of images.

“i chopped da prime , fukk it,” he wrote within the caption, mentioning that he removed his signature braids.

Whereas lots of his followers applauded his “glowing” complexion and “good genes” within the feedback part, he additionally encountered his justifiable share of trolls. In response, he took to Twitter hours later to fireside again.

“i didn’t cease drinkin lean for n-ggas to bully me and inform me i appear to be i’ve leukemia,” he tweeted.