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Lil Yachty Announces The Boat Show Tour

Lil Yachty will be heading on his very first headlining tour, The Boat Show, beginning August 6.

However divisive he might still be, Lil Yachty has had a tremendous year. From coming through with standout feature verses, to being named as one of this year’s XXL Freshmen , to the release of his Lil Boat mixtape (which is one of this year’s best, if you ask us ), the next logical step for him would be to go on tour. And so, Lil Yachty has announced his very first headlining tour, The Boat Show .

Kicking off on August 6 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Lil Yacht will be making his way through North America, making stops at Fool’s Gold Day Off and Made in America, before wrapping up on September 4.

Tickets for Lil Yachty’s tour go on sale July 8. Take a look at the dates for The Boat Show below.

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Tour Dates :

8/6 – Vancouver, BC – Vogue Theatre

8/8 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox

8/9 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom

8/11 – San Francisco, CA – Social Hall SF

8/12 – Los Angeles, CA – The Novo

8/13 – Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory

8/15 – Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater

8/18 – Toronto, ON – The Phoenix Concert Theatre

8/19 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair

8/20 – Brooklyn, NY – Fool’s Gold DAY OFF

8/21 – Washington, DC – U Street Music Hall

8/23 – Atlanta, GA – Center Stage Theatre

8/25 – Orlando, FL – The Social

8/26 – Houston, TX – Warehouse Live – Studio

8/28 – Dallas, TX – Trees

8/30 – Detroit, MI – The Majestic

8/31 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall

9/2 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave Bar

9/4 – Philadelphia, PA – Made In America Festival

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Lil Yachty Announces First Ever Headlining Tour

The boat show tour will hit canada and the u.s..

Now Announcing " The Boat Show " My First Offical Tour. This Will Be Crazy. Tickets Go On Sale 10A.M July 8th. 🚣🏿 pic.twitter.com/7UYME0iFiy — lil boat (@lilyachty) July 5, 2016

Lil Yachty is setting sail on his first headlining tour. The Boat Show will take the rapper from Vancouver on August 6 to the Made In America Festival in Philadelphia on September 4. Yachty's known for his wild stage presence and boundless energy. Cop tickets at 10 A.M. on July 8. Listen to Lil Yachty's most recent mixtape Lil Boat below.

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Karrahbooo Responds to Lil Yachty Ghost-Writing Claims: ‘Who Ain’t Write It?’

The former Concrete Boy member hit back at Yachty onstage & on social media.

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Late last week, Lil Yachty had what many would consider a meltdown on social media — and his former groupmate is responding to some of the heated allegations.

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Boat also claimed he wrote all of her verses and positioned her as the face of Concrete Boys. “I wrote every f—ing verse you’ve done,” he proclaimed. Later saying, “I slowed the beat down, I put 808s specifically on your verse so when it got to your part and the beat dropped, everyone would be like, ‘This girl is the craziest one,'” in reference to her viral On the Radar freestyle.

Well, over the weekend, Karrahbooo addressed her former label boss.

She first responded to him via Instagram Stories, saying, “Put it on yo kid I ain’t write these songs miles. Stop da cap and leave me out ur internet shenanigans.” She continued, “Stop bullying me big dawg I never said anything you letting random fans get in yo head man up.”

Lil yachty former artist Karrahbooo tells him to man up and she also says that she writes her raps as well pic.twitter.com/UVQo5vT2CW — livebitez (@livebitez) August 24, 2024

Then, during her set at Pepsi Dig In Day in Chicago, Karrahbooo again addressed Yachty’s ghostwriting allegations. While performing her song “Running Late,” she asked the crowd, “Who ain’t write it?… Who ain’t write it?” several times.

@romeo.mediatv #KARRAHBOOO responds to #LilYachty on stage at her latest show in Chicago. “Who ain’t write it? Who ain’t write it? Who ain’t write it?” ♬ original sound – romeo.mediatv

Lil Yachty & KARRAHBOOO trade more shots via IG as their beef continues LY: "don't throw rocks and hide your hand" K: "i never threw rocks… u big grown b*tch leave me alone" pic.twitter.com/9XBOAX8stf — Kurrco (@Kurrco) August 25, 2024

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Lil Yachty’s debut mixtape, Lil Boat , is one of the pre-eminent releases of the SoundCloud era. Released on March 9, 2016, it made Lil Yachty a star, spawned multiple hits, and further legitimized the DIY-style rap that emerged at the beginning of the decade.

The Atlanta MC entered the crowded rapper-singer fray with a work that’s split into two distinct sides, seeing him grapple with dueling elements of his personality and career. The first half of Lil Boat sees Yachty flex his flow, while the second half finds him crooning in AutoTune. That may be a slightly reductive way to look at the collection (in reality, he does both throughout), but there’s certainly a kind of TI vs TIP split-personality concept to the whole affair. Yachty uses his style to demarcate who is who, and, despite his glee throughout, Lil Boat is a surprisingly subtle work for the chaotic time it represents.

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Yachty’s debut mixtape is a standout work for the usual reasons – great name, great cover, and two singles that will forever be associated with Yachty and the era from which he emerged: “One Night” and “Minnesota.”

As a title, Lil Boat was perfect. Serving two purposes at once, it created a fitting alt.moniker for the MC while helping a lot of people to pronounce his name (did you actually say it like “yacht”?). Nautical luxury isn’t the most commonly-evoked lifestyle in hip-hop (outside of Puffy), so that theme alone was enough to put Yachty in his own lane. And then there’s the artwork: not a yacht, barely even a boat; it’s basically a little wooden dinghy. Beautifully composed, the image looks like a classical painting, bordered in a red that matches Yachty’s hair. It’s almost Americana in tone – though Yachty’s music is anything but.

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Yachty may be poised and confident on that cover, but he’s also lost in the gloom at sea – an apt metaphor for the musical style he was leading. While not traditional in any sense, Yachty is honest with his emotions in a way that younger generations have always been, and Lil Boat found him attempting to navigate his way through the emotionally turbulent years of his late youth. Shortly after his breakout, Yachty would declare himself “King Of Teens” or, alternatively, “King Of The Youth.” This might have sounded ridiculous to adults who weren’t even sure how to pronounce his name, but those adults were no longer in charge. Lil Yachty was not part of some hip-hop assembly line; like other DIY pioneers before him, Yachty and his crew were making these songs at home, often in a matter of minutes.

Outside of the Vikings football team and Ice Cube ’s “What Can I Do?,” Minnesota doesn’t get name-checked very often in hip-hop. Simply naming a track after a state was seemingly in line with the aforementioned “half-Americana, half trolling” theme of Lil Boat – but, of course, the song isn’t actually about Minnesota. It’s more of a celebration of Lil Yachty’s arrival on the scene. The draw and significance of having both Quavo and Young Thug on a song in 2016 is hard to overstate, and their guest appearances turned “Minnesota” into a certified-gold hit. At the time, Quavo was just months away from releasing “Bad And Boujee,” while Thug was fresh off Barter 6 and in the middle of his Slime Season run. Together, he and Yachty appeared at Kanye West’s Yeezy Season 3 fashion show, on February 11, where The Life Of Pablo received its public unveiling. Just two days after releasing his debut mixtape, Yachty was at the epicenter of one of hip-hop’s biggest cultural shifts.

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Lil Boat was big enough that Burberry Perry – Yachty’s right-hand man at the time and the producer behind most of the mixtape – came under pressure from the fashion label Burberry and was forced to change his name. That wasn’t exactly an unprecedented move, but the speed with which it happened certainly was. It’s not often that an internationally renowned fashion house serves a cease-and-desist to a kid who got famous on the internet and was barely old enough to vote.

Perry’s production on Lil Boat ’s lead single, “One Night’ (Yachty’s best-known song to date), guided the way for the rest of the collection. Even the beats he didn’t produce fall right in line, all cascading bells, and whistles alongside keys that let you hear Yachty’s grin throughout.

Lil Yachty’s emergence closely resembles that of the Odd Future collective, who, years earlier, more or less launched DIY rap on the internet (depending on how you view Lil B’s rise to fame). Seemingly overnight, Yachty was partnering with Urban Outfitters and the aptly titled Nautica clothing brand. His rapid ascent would have sounded like fan fiction just a few years earlier but, after his breakout, many artists began following his path to fame on a regular basis.

Having hit it big in such a short space of time, Yachty wasn’t about to slow down. He went on to guest (and absolutely steal the show) on “Broccoli,” a DRAM song with a Yachty-perfect beat. As one of the stars in Quality Control ’s shining roster, Yachty was operating alongside some of the biggest acts in hip-hop. With Lil Boat, he fully shed the “mumble rap” label, completing the transition from SoundCloud sensation to major label star.

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How Lil Yachty Landed A Big Fortune With His $8 Million Net Worth

I f you’ve been tuned into the landscape of rap music for the last decade or so, you’re no doubt familiar with the work of Lil Yachty. T he Grammy nominated Georgia rapper is responsible for releasing such hits as “Yacht Club,” “Oprah’s Bank Account,” “Pardon Me.” Most recently, his hit “Poland” met with viral success. Since first emerging on the scene in 2015, the rising star has made a name for himself. He’s regarded for his unique image, positive message, and subversive musical range. The rapper’s latest full-length solo album Let’s Start Here completely reinvented his sound for a new audience. Today, Lil Yachty has a net worth of over $8 million according to Celebrity Net Worth . However, comments from the artist himself seem to suggest his actual nest egg is worth significantly more.

There’s no way to be 100 percent certain about the overall value of Lil Yachty’s investments. That said, it’s clear that the rapper has elevated himself from humble beginnings to generational wealth in a very brief span of time. This makes him an inspiration to other up-and-coming entertainers everywhere. So, now seems like as good a time as any to examine Yachty’s financial portfolio. Here, we’ll pour over his investment strategies, and see what we can learn about his blueprint for generating millions in net worth. Let’s dive directly into Yachty’s career earnings, gathered mostly through music sales, global tours, and endorsement deals with massive brands.

Early Life and Career Beginnings

Long before Lil Yachty was rocking stages worldwide, he was born Miles McCollum to a modest family in Mableton, Georgia. Throughout his youth, Yachty maintained a passion for crafting beats and rhymes. He found himself influenced by a number of emerging sounds from the Midwest to his hometown of Atlanta.

Eventually, Yachty committed himself fully to his craft, and dropped out of Alabama State University in 2015. While looking for an outlet to launch his music career, the young artist moved to New York on a whim. For a time, he crashed with a friend while networking with other artists online. During this period, the aspiring rapper supported himself by doing minimum wage work at fast food restaurants like McDonald’s. Despite bolstering a sizable following on Instagram, it wasn’t until his track “One Night” found its way into a viral video that Yachty finally blew up.

From there, Lil Yachty had a meteoric rise. Appearing front-and-center as a model during Kanye West’s 2016 Yeezy fashion show in Madison Square Garden helped with that. According to an interview with The Fader, Yachty was originally supposed to be tucked away in the back of the event. He inquired about his placement to the event director, explaining that his vibrant red hair perfectly matched the Aesthetic of Kanye’s latest colorways.

Per his interview, Yachty explained, “They switched it around and like bam, they put me in the front. That opened doors for me. A lot of fashion doors opened up after that.” Years later, Yachty revealed via social media that he had moved back into his mother’s home at the time. The artist explained that he was literally down to his last $70 during the Yeezy show. Clearly, his ascension to millionaire status came fast, and saved him from the throes of poverty.

Lil Yachty’s Music Career

Just one month after appearing in the Yeezy fashion show, Lil Yachty released his debut mixtape, Lil Boat . Lil Boat helped put him on the map for many listeners of the SoundCloud era . Later in 2016, the rising star would see his first Billboard charting hit, with the DRAM collaboration “Broccoli.” The track remains one of Yachty’s biggest singles to date. The rapper quickly found further success after signing to Quality Control Music and joining the likes of Denzel Curry, 21 Savage, Lil Uzi Vert, and more on the 2016 XXL Freshman cover. Today, fans regard the 2016 class as one of the best XXL Freshman lineups of all time. Their YouTube cypher performance touts a staggering view count of over 224 million at the time of this writing.

Since hard-launching his music career in 2015, Lil Yachty has delivered 5 full-length solo studio albums and 3 mixtapes. Most recently, he hopped on a collaborative album with English singer-songwriter and record producer James Blake. Yachty maintains a dedicated following of more than 17.5 million monthly listeners on Spotify alone. Not only that, but he serves as the frontman for a hip hop collective known as the Concrete Boys. There’s no way to directly calculate what percentage of Yachty’s wealth comes through music streaming. That said, the rapper claims that his true net worth is significantly higher than the reported figure of $8 million. Per a July 2024 report in Complex , Yachty stated, “I made 8 million in my first 8 months of rappin in 2016 on god… Y’all be letting this internet guide y’all. In real life s*** is different I’m telling you.”

Brand Deals and Other Ventures

While Lil Yachty’s biggest financial successes obviously stem from his streaming and tour revenue, the artist has also managed to bring in plenty of cash from lucrative brand deals and collaborations with other entertainers. The rapper famously appeared alongside NBA legend LeBron James in a 2017 promotional campaign for Sprite. The campaign saw Yachty sitting at a piano inside an ice cavern, and performing a parody of his own hit song, with lyrics that encouraged consumers to purchase the soft drink. Also in 2017, Yachty announced partnerships with clothing brands such as Nautica and Urban Outfitters, which saw him acting as the face of the brands for the entire Spring season. Since then, Lil Yachty has collaborated with massive brands which include Target, Fortnite, and McDonald’s.

The rising business magnate has also utilized his star-power for a number of crossover deals in the world of entertainment, including a few film and television placements. In 2020, Lil Yachty provided a new and improved rendition of the Saved by the Bell theme song. The new twist on the tune was used for the television revival series of the same name. Likewise, he crafted an original theme tune for Chef Boyardee to use in their ad campaigns. What’s more, he featured on the 25th anniversary soundtrack album for the Pokémon franchise.

In front of the camera, Yachty has appeared in several episodes of the hit ABC sitcom Grown-ish, including a few highly rated episodes in the final season, which aired in April 2024. Lil Yachty is also expected to star in an upcoming film loosely based on the card game Uno, as well as an upcoming TV series named Public Figures .

Obviously, Lil Yachty still has plenty of new and exciting projects in the works. There’s no telling what’s next for this Atlanta-bred superstar.

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Lil yachty blasts former artist karrahbooo and ex co-host mitch in rant over “disrespect”.

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Lil Yachty  recently went live and blasted his former artist Karrahbooo  and ex-podcast co-host, Mitch , for “disrespecting” him after he helped them.

Yachty first addressed rumors that Karrahboo was no longer part of Concrete Boys on Thursday (Aug. 22) via Instagram Live. “Don’t get on here and make a scene ‘bout ni**as kicked you out,” he said when addressing her exit from the label. He added that he also gave her money, jewelry, and served as her stylist.

Lil Yachty took to Instagram Live to accuse Karrahboo of being $900k in debt, claiming he was responsible for styling her and writing all of her music, while also alleging that she has been verbally abusive towards him. pic.twitter.com/yauC2WM0N4 — WooSupreme ?? (@WoobensSupreme) August 23, 2024

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“I slowed the beat down, I put 808s specifically on your verse so when it got to your part and the beat dropped, everyone would be like, ‘This girl is the craziest one,’” he said about her freestyle and career. “I wrote every f**king verse you’ve done. I dressed you. I dressed all five of y’all ni**as bro. I dressed five ni**as every time we stepped out the house. I put an outfit on everybody. I put eight carats of earrings on everybody ear. I put three chains on all y’all neck.”

He continued, “We bought a Cartier watch. I gave you that chrome Rolex, bro. You was waiting tables… What are we talking about ni**a? I changed your mother f**king life and you are here lying, talking about some: ‘We bully you’… That sh*t got me f**ked up, bro. You got me f**ked up, bro. You disrespectful, bro. You talk to people crazy. You tell people that they are nothing. You tell people you’re going to spit on them. You tell people they poor, and you talk to my f**king label crazy. You claim I was stealing money…”

Lil Yachty exposes KarrahBooo and leaks his reference track for her viral On The Radar freestyle pic.twitter.com/O7c2uZStOP — Rap Marathon (@RapMarathon_) August 23, 2024

The “Poland” rapper also called out Mitch and claimed the only reason he started the podcast aside from his rap career was to “help him out.”

“I ain’t want to do no motherf**king podcast ni**a, I’m a motherf**king rapper,” he barked. “Got millions of dollars, I don’t need to talk to other rappers. I did the podcast for Mitch. I done put $400,000 in Mitch pocket. I ain’t f**king with Mitch.”

Lil Yachty goes off on his bestfriend and producer Mitch and cancels their podcast together 'A Safe Place' on IG live, for not clearing up a viral clip "I aint want to do no motherf*cking podcast n*gga, Im a f*cking rapper… I put $400,000 in Mitch pocket…" pic.twitter.com/OX9TloJQ58 — SOUND (@itsavibe) August 23, 2024

Boat’s sentiments came about after clips of their episode with Key Glock made rounds online. At one point, Yachty brought up Mitch not having a purpose in life prior to the podcast.

”Even if I was doing sh*t back then, I’m older now,” Mitch said during the episode when Yachty alleged that his co-host once planned to steal an expensive watch by brandishing a gun. ”[If] I was never in your life, what would you have been doing?” Yachty asked.

In his live, Yachty rhetorically asked why Mitch didn’t go online and say that they were “just playing” regarding his remarks in their Key Glock interview.

See Yachty going off about Karrahbooo and Mitch above and watch the Key Glock interview below.

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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.” 

“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. 

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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.’”

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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 . 

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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.

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Lil Yachty Has All-Time Crash Out Session Over Karrahbooo & ‘A Safe Place’ Co-Host Mitch

In case you were living under a rock or just woke up from coma, last night Lil Yachty had a public meltdown on Instagram Live over his former artist Karrahbooo and his podcast co-host and friend Mitch.

First, a clip of his podcast A Safe Place went around of him, Mitch, and Key Glock having a discussion about trying to understand why some want what others have when things got awkward. “Some people gotta eat, gotta feed they family, however the case may be,” Yachty said. “That’s when the militant part comes into play because sometimes, unfortunately, don’t wanna put in work and just want what you have. And that’s a whole different conversation because I ain’t been rich forever.” Adding, “I done been broke before, so who am I to tell this n—a not to go do what you gotta do.

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Mitch disagreed and said you can give them different advice.” However, Yachty then replied, “Like what? You ain’t never had a job. What you gonna tell a n—a to get a job?” The Atlanta rapper then brought up what Mitch would be doing with his life if Yachty wasn’t around and all Key Glock could do was sit there in silence.

Lil Yachty disrespecting his friend in front of Key Glock. pic.twitter.com/owWr6Efkbc — 🌎Zay🌍 (@TLOZAY88) August 22, 2024

Naturally, Rap Twitter had a field day with said clip and criticized Yachty for being a bad friend. Boat addressed the viral clip during his IG Live session and stated he started the podcast to help his friend and said he was going to end it because Mitch wouldn’t defend him on social media. “I aint want to do no motherf—king podcast, n—a, I’m a f—king rapper.”

Lil Yachty goes off on his bestfriend and producer Mitch and cancels their podcast together 'A Safe Place' on IG live, for not clearing up a viral clip "I aint want to do no motherf*cking podcast n*gga, Im a f*cking rapper… I put $400,000 in Mitch pocket…" pic.twitter.com/OX9TloJQ58 — SOUND (@itsavibe) August 23, 2024

Mitch then took to X to clear the air, suggesting him and Yachty joke around and are often brutally honest with each other.

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As for Karrahbooo, a waitress at Red Lobster set fire to this whole night. X user @C_Staxxz claimed the former Concrete Boy member walked into the restaurant chain to buy some Cheddar Bay Biscuits said she was kicked out of the group after being asked why she left. The user also claimed Karrahbooo told her that “they were really mean to her and bullying her a lot.”

A fan who met KARRAHBOOO claims she said she was "kicked out" of Concrete Boys and bullied within the group pic.twitter.com/NDmuYN467Q — Kurrco (@Kurrco) August 22, 2024

Those two now-deleted tweets bothered Yachty so much, he decided to hop on Live and finally address the situation. He responded by saying, “Tell people how you verbally abuse people. Don’t get on here to make it seem like niggas kicked you out… bullying you? Bro, go ‘head and tell people how you talk to people… You talk to people like they’re small, like they’re beneath you.”

He then claimed that he wrote all of her verses and styled her and the other members of the Concrete Boys. “I wrote every f—king verse you’ve done,” he said. “I dressed you. I dressed all five of y’all n—as, bro. I dressed five n—as every time we stepped out the house. I put an outfit on everybody. I put eight carat earrings in everybody ear. I put three chains on all y’all neck.”

Adding, “We bought a Cartier watch. I gave you that chrome Rolex, bro. You was waiting tables… What are we talking about, n—a? I changed your motherf—king life and you are here lying, talking about some, ‘We bully you’… That sh—t got me f—ked up, bro. You got me f—ked up, bro. You disrespectful, bro. You talk to people crazy. You tell people that they are nothing. You tell people you’re going to spit on them. You tell people they poor and you talk to my f—king label crazy. You claim I was stealing money from you. Stealing money from you how? You ain’t made no money.”

He continued, “This the problem with you new artists. Y’all get poppin’ online and then you become more popular than your actual music. You $900,000 in the whole and I got every f—king receipt.” Boat then brought up her viral On the Radar freestyle and said he was trying to make her pop off and it worked. “I slowed the beat down, I put 808s specifically on your verse so when it got to your part and the beat dropped, everyone would be like, ‘This girl is the craziest one.’”

For whatever reason, Boat finds himself in these situations and even went as far as to claim he was going to stop talking on the Internet . “I’m not doing no more talkin’,” Yachty said on Instagram Live last month. “I don’t got s—t else to say. I’m gone off this internet s—t. I think I’m gone for the rest of the year. I swear to God. I ain’t got s—t else to say.

Karrahbooo has yet to respond.

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Lil Yachty and his former artist Karrahbooo 's feud escalates with bullying accusations.

Lil Yachty and Karrahbooo Continue Throwing Shots at Each Other

On Sunday (Aug. 25), Lil Yachty hopped on his Instagram Story to address Karrahbooo's claims about writing her own rhymes and being bullied. Karrahbooo was part of Yachty's Concrete Boys collective. Although Yachty didn't directly address the 27-year-old rhymer, his message suggested that he clapped back at her allegations.

"Don't throw rocks and hide your hands," Boat wrote on his IG Story post below.

After catching wind of the Atlanta rapper's message, Karrahbooo posted a lengthy statement on her Instagram Story about supporting others in times of need and alluded to Yachty picking on her.

"I'll never forget this feeling, this chapter of my life. I'll never be the same," Karrahbooo penned in her IG Story. "I'll never forget who was there for me. I done chopped people out/spent my last/slapped folks 4 ni**as. I ride every time naturally, but that's just how I am. Nobody owe me sh*t tbh I'm just taking a mental note. I can't even look at most people da same way. To know the truth and watch a grown man with 12 million followers overly lie on my name and publicly bully me for literally no reason at all while I silently been conquering all da sh*t ni**as been throwing me this whole time behind closed doors. I'll never ignore the signs again, and I will never stop, no matter how much they hate me."

In her next IG Story post, Karrahbooo responded to Yachty's aforementioned message, insisting that they could discuss their issues on the phone. She also stated that she just wanted to make peace with individuals in the music scene.

"I never threw rocks and u have my number you big grown b**ch. Leave me alone literally @lilyachty," she typed in her IG Story post. "I never said nothing about sh*t and I still ain't say nothing 'bout what's really going on. I don't want no beef wit you industry people. Just move on wit ur life. Stop tryna bring me down when I stay out the way. I'm done talking. You got it. Yo character gone speak for itself."

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Why are lil yachty and karrahbooo beefing.

Things went south between Lil Yachty and Karrahbooo after a fan shared a post on social media and claimed that after bumping into Karrahbooo at a restaurant, the rapper told her she was kicked out of Concrete Boys and bullied during her time on the label . On Aug. 22, Lil Yachty went live on Instagram and denied Karrahbooo's bullying allegations . Boat said Karrahbooo was actually the one bullying others.

"Tell people how you talk to people," Yachty said in his heated video below. "How you tell my security guard, 'Oh, you homeless. You work for me. You're poor. We above you.' You talk to people like they nothing...Tell people how you verbally abuse people. How you said you gon' spit on me when you see me."

"I been letting you do this whole thing where you act like you a princess and you sweet," he continued. "Stop the front, bro. We have withheld your actions since the beginning of me giving you this career. What the f**k are we talking about, bro. You don't even do nothing. It's so crazy to me, bro. ’Cause I've given you a career, and from time to time, you just disrespect me.

Boat then mentioned that Karrahbooo has a $900,000 debt to his label. Afterward, the Quality Control rhymer leaked his reference track to Karrahbooo's 2023 On The Radar Freestyle , suggesting that she didn't pen the lyrics.

Karrahbooo Claps Back at Lil Yachty's Claims About Writing Her Lyrics

On Aug. 23, Karrahbooo went on her Instagram Story to clap back at Yachty by sharing three songs she claimed to write and highlighted their streaming counts.

"Running Late," boasted over 7 million streams, "Where Yo Daddy," garnered 3 million streams and the On the Radar Concrete Cypher freestyle hit nearly 3 million streams.

Karrahbooo captioned the image, "put it on yo kid i ain't these songs [M]iles[.] Stop da cap and leave me out ur internet shenanigans [tears of joy emoji]."

She continued: "Stop bullying me big dawg [tears of joy emoji] i never said nothing u letting random fans get in yo head man up."

During her performance at the Dig in Day Festival in Chicago on Aug. 24, Karrahbooo suggested that Yachty's ghostwriting claims were false.

"Who ain't write it, who ain't write it," she rapped during her performance in the video below.

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Karrahbooo Hits Back At Lil Yachty's Ghostwriting Claim: 'Stop Bullying Me'

Karrahbooo has responded to Lil Yachty ‘s fiery rant in which he claimed that he wrote all of her raps.

The Atlanta rapper, who recently departed Yachty’s Concrete Boys collective, took to her Instagram Stories early on Saturday (August 24) to address Lil Boat’s accusation.

“[P]ut it on yo kid i ain’t write these songs miles,” she wrote, addressing Yachty by his government name while referencing the child he welcomed in 2021 . “[S]top da cap and leave me out ur internet shenanigans [crying face emoji].”

She added: “[S]top bullying me big dawg [crying face emoji] i never said nothing u letting random fans get in yo head man up.”

Karrahbooo also posted a screenshot of her most popular songs on Apple Music and their respective streams, showing her solo track “Running Late” outperforming her contributions to Concrete Boys’ recently released compilation It’s Us Vol. 1 .

Earlier this week, Lil Yachty unloaded on Karrahbooo on Instagram Live  after she allegedly claimed that she was “bullied” by Concrete Boys and ultimately kicked out out of the group.

He made a number of accusations about his former assistant turned artist, including that she was “verbally abusive” towards his bodyguard and that he wrote all of her raps, including her  viral  On the Radar  freestyle .

“I’m so sick and tired of helping people,” he said. “Gon’ ‘head and tell people how you verbally abuse people. How you told my security guard, ‘Oh, you work for me. You’re poor and we above you.’ You talk to people like you nothing! [Tell people] how you told me you gonna spin on me when you see me. Your brain is clinically imbalanced.”

Yachty also denied mistreating the 27-year-old rapper: “Karrah, I have never bullied you. I let you live at my house for free! I ain’t never done nothing but be nice, love you, brought you around every rapper. I brought you around everybody from [Lil] Baby to Drake.”

He added: “You don’t even do nothing! I wrote every fucking verse you’ve done. I dressed you. I gave you that chrome Rolex. You were waiting tables! I changed your muthafucking life! And you on here lying talking about some ‘we bully you’? That shit got me fucked up, bruh!

“I wrote that fucking verse when we went on  On the Radar . I put you last on purpose so everyone would say, ‘Who the fuck is that girl?’ … I got the fucking reference.”

Backing up his claim, Yachty shared an iPhone voice note of his reference for Karrahbooo’s show-stealing verse in the Concrete Boys cypher.

Lil Yachty also denied stealing money from Karrahbooo and in turn accused her of owing almost $1 million to his label, which is apparently how much has been invested into her career.

“You talked to my fucking label crazy. You claim I was stealing money from you. Stealing money from you how, n-gga? You ain’t made no money!” he said.

“You $900,000 in the whole and I got every fucking receipt, n-gga. And I’ma post it. I dare you [to] try me. And I’ll post how much money your fucking streams have made.”

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He added: “Don’t go on the internet and act like I’m bullying you, bro. I’ve been nothing but loving and caring and paid your bills and gave you money and took you around the world. Nobody would even know who the fuck Karrahbooo was if it wasn’t for me.”

Yachty’s outburst was seemingly sparked by a social media post claiming that Karrahbooo had been bullied out of the Concrete Boys.

A restaurant employee claimed on X (formerly Twitter) to have been told by Karrah herself that she had been “kicked out” of the collective and that the group members were “bullying her a lot.”

Karrahbooo later made a vague reference to the drama on her own X account, quote tweeting her own post which said: “ion say too much cuz I know shit gone unfold on its own,” with the comment: “this aged well.”

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