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The first song on Lil Yachty’s <i>Let’s Start Here.</i> is nearly seven minutes long and features breathy singing from Yachty, a freewheeling guitar solo, and a mostly instrumental second half that calls to mind TV depictions of astral projecting. “the BLACK seminole.” is an extremely fulfilling listen, but is this the same guy who just a few months earlier delivered the beautifully off-kilter and instantly viral “Poland”? Better yet, is this the guy who not long before that embedded himself with Detroit hip-hop culture to the point of a soft rebrand as <i>Michigan Boy Boat</i>? Sure i. It’s just that, as he puts it on “the BLACK seminole.,” he’s got “No time to joke around/The kid is now a man/And the silence is filled with remarkable sound.” We could call the silence he’s referring to the years since his last studio album, 2020’s <i>Lil Boat 3</i>, but he’s only been slightly less visible than we’re used to, having released the aforementioned <i>Michigan Boy Boat</i> mixtape while also lending his discerning production ear to Drake and 21 Savage’s ground-shaking album <i>Her Loss</i>. Collaboration, though, is the name of the game across <i>Let’s Start Here.</i>, an album deeply indebted to some as yet undisclosed psych-rock influence, with repeated production contributions from onetime blog-rock darlings Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson and Patrick Wimberly, as well as multiple appearances from Diana Gordon, a Queen, New York-hailing singer who made a noise during the earliest parts of her career as Wynter Gordon. .

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