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Lil Yachty drops the final XXL Freshman Freestyle and he starts it off by shouting out his mom. In the just under a minute freestyle Lil Boat raps quick about his freshness and some surprising tough talk. He's shining from pinkie finger to thumb . It's not going to win over any naysayers but the drop is very endearing. Watch it above.

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Watch Lil Yachty's XXL Freshman Freestyle: "Hey Mama, I did it!"

If you hate Lil Yachty , you may want to get off the internet for a while, because he’s impossible to avoid lately. His Lil Boat mixtape is one of the most polarizing projects in recent memory ( one of the best , if you ask us), and his live shows have won over an army of young fans who are ride-or-die for Yachty.

We already know that Lil Yachty doesn’t consider himself a rapper and isn’t into freestyles (or the opinions of his many critics ), but it’s tradition for all the XXL Freshmen to deliver a freestyle, so here it is.

Read more thoughts on the rise of Lil Yachty here.

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Watch Lil Yachty's XXL Freshman Freestyle

Lil Yachty gets fresh for his XXL Freshman freestyle.

Sporting his trademark ‘do and lots of jewelry, Lil Boat drops bars in the black-and-white video.

“Top floor by the pool shore,” he raps in the clip. “That’s Lil Boat with the biggest ego / Flyer than a seagull / Every time you see me out, you know it’s a movie like Regal.”

Boat also participated in XXL’s profile interview, in which he shares that he’s only been rapping for less than a year and describes his sound.

“Colorful, happy, positive music,” he says. “Positive. I once said bubblegum trap in an interview and then everybody took that and ran with it.”

Yachty is just the latest spitter to deliver this freestyle, following fellow classmates 21 Savage , Lil Uzi Vert , and Desiigner , among others.

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Lil Yachty - XXL Freshman Freestyle Lyrics

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Miles Parks McCollum (born August 23, 1997), known professionally as Lil Yachty, is an American rapper, singer and songwriter. Yachty first gained recognition in August 2015 for his singles "One Night" and "Minnesota" from his debut EP Summer Songs. He released his debut mixtape Lil Boat in March 2016. On June 10, 2016, Yachty announced that he had signed a joint venture record deal with Quality Control Music, Capitol Records, and Motown Records. His mixtapes Lil Boat and Summer Songs 2 were released in 2016 and his debut studio album, Teenage Emotions in 2017. His second studio album, Lil Boat 2 was released on March 9, 2018. more »

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Ranking The 2016 XXL Freshman Freestyles

We list this year's XXL Freshman freestyles from worst to best.

Stark, acapella, and to the point, the freestyles that XXL produce in conjunction with their annual Freshmen class series stand out in contrast to the list itself, which takes numerous factors into consideration in order to determine the hottest up-and-comers in the game. It's been clear for a few years that being the best pure rapper isn't the only way you can make it there. Maybe you're not the best lyricist in the game but you've got a new sound and a cult following. Maybe you're a street rapper who never freestyles. Maybe you're a singer! This is all fair game when it comes to landing on the cover itself, but when it's time for the Freshman freestyles, that all goes out of the window. 

Taking anywhere from 30 seconds to over two minutes, each Freshman gets up close and personal with the camera and delivers a 32, or a 16, or maybe even what just sounds like a hook. It's one of the few places in the current culture of perfectly-curated Soundcloud page and Snapchat stories that we get a completely bare-bones look at artists' abilities, free from alteration by auto-tune and distraction by way of impressive production. Especially since the magazine started taking singers and non-freestylers into serious consideration, there's quite an obvious range of skill level in each year's crop of freestyles, but the diversity can also produce some stunners-- stuff you typically wouldn't hear in a serious cypher but adapts artists' new styles into the form of acapella delivery. 

Today, we're ranking the freestyles by this year's ten XXL Freshman from worst to best. Points are given not only for lyrical dexterity, but also for originality, and they're subtracted for the use of bars that have appeared in already-released tracks. 

Kodak Black

We loved  Kodak's recent tape  Lil BIG Pac , but unfortunately his "freestyle" is a different story, or rather the exact same story told once more. He opts to just rap the first verse of the tape's Boosie Badazz collab, "Slayed," which has some definite bars in it, but is still a lazy move overall. We know Kodak's got some great flows up his sleeve, so it was rather disappointing to hear an old one recycled.

Luckily, we only got two rappers this year who were brazen enough to think they didn't need to come to the freestyle sessions packing new lyrics. After Kodak, Lil Dicky's the other, as he chooses to use a very slightly altered version of the second half of his track "Bruh" in this instance. You can't really deny his speed or dexterity, both of which he puts on display here, but in addition to the unoriginality, you also have to note the questionable nature of lyrics such as "My flaccid is growing fat as Samoan cracker." 

Although he still finishes in the bottom half of this list, you've gotta give Lil Yachty some props for being less disappointing than you'd expect. He's never been considered an especially gifted lyricist, especially after his recent attempt at freestyling  on Hot 97, but this time around, he manages to flip his unique style into at least a handful of enjoyable, if not exactly wowing, bars. Note how the camera shakes, playing up Yachty's whimsical charm. 

In terms of pure attention, Desiigner's the clear winner of the pack, with his video garnering over six million view to date. It was all anybody seemed to want to talk about the day it was released, with Timmy Turner memes still popping up and inspiring the rapper to flesh this one out into a full track. Funnily enough, his is the most minimal and least lyrically involved XXL Freestyle ever, basically just a hook with a few words. But man, that melody's haunting, and you've got to admire Desiigner's gall at deciding to just sing and snap rather than flat-out rap. 

This scratchy-voiced ATLien has a minimal rapping style that doesn't really lend itself to the acapella format, as riding chaotic trap beats with ease is his definite main strength. He comes off a bit lazy in this 50-second-long outing, not changing up his flow that much, pushing the speed of his lyrics, or going for any intricate rhyme patterns. It's the type of thing that might blow you away if paired with the right beat-- as 21's so gifted at finding just the right pockets within an instrumental-- but in its current form, this is not a wildly impressive freestyle.

Lil Uzi Vert

People don't usually think of the melody-minded Uzi Vert as a freestyler or a particularly gifted lyricist, but he erases nearly all of that with the deft opening lines of his Freshman Freestyle. Doing back-to-back double entendres with "for" and "four," he shows that there's often more than meets the ear in his music, which most people just assume consists solely of "yeah"s and garbled singing. He gets a little more repetitive and simplistic as time goes on in this freestyle, but definitely holds his own against more venerated lyricists. 

Dave East is unarguably the least popular rapper of this year's class, with his freestyle only receiving less than 400,000 views thus far (around 200,000 less than anyone else's), but he's used to batting from an underdog's position, and uses this opportunity to show his New York roots and focus on a more linear narrative than any of his classmates. He's no-frills in his delivery, opting to erode away at stanzas of lyrics rather than dazzle with quickly-spoken fireworks, but that only bolsters his workmanlike image. East is an old soul that has no interest in joining today's flocks of neon-haired, melodic rappers, and here, he shows that that's still worth something. 

After being snubbed the last two years, Herbo finally got the spot he's deserved for his more lyrically dextrous take on drill. He goes the fuck IN here, rapping for thirty seconds longer than anyone else and adeptly finding his way into a new flow every few seconds. Like East, he keeps it real with tales from his own life, but manages to dazzle a bit more with twisting couplets like, "We wake up, flame up, pop up, post up, steal dope, clap folks, crack jokes." Herbo's approach might sound busy over hyperkinetic beats at times, but this is the perfect arena for him to flex in.

Anderson .Paak

Singers may face a tougher challenge in the freestyle section, but .Paak isn't your average R&B dude. On  Malibu , he proved himself able to slip into melodic rapping with ease, and here, he does it again, all while maintaining a rhythmic playfulness. Almost a song unto itself, .Paak's freestyle is part beat poetry, part hook, and part display of technical gifts. He comes across as the most well-read vocabulary expert in the whole group, and does so without seeming one bit nerdy. 

Denzel Curry

How did Denzel Curry rise from cult hero to XXL Freshman? Pure, unadulterated bars. He shows that off without a shadow of a doubt here, managing to rap faster, more nimbly, and more intelligently than any of his classmates. "Fuck a big body Benz, I need warships," he says, big-upping himself while also taking stock of the surrounding culture. If you're not yet convinced that this kid's a problem, watch this video a few more times. 

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On Tuesday (April 16), Drake continued his 24-hour-long social media clowning session aimed at Metro Boomin . In a move of pure pettiness, Drizzy hit up his Instagram Story to share video footage of an entire drumline the Toronto MC sent to Magic City, one of the hottest clubs in Metro Boomin's home city of Atlanta.

In the IG clip below, at least 10 percussionists can be seen clanging and banging away outside of the famed gentlemen's club. The gag appears to be a direct shot at Metro Boomin. Drake plays on a specific line aimed at the producer on his recent leaked diss track, which has the unofficial title  "Push Ups (Drop and Give Me 50)."

"Metro shut yo h*e a*s up and make some drums, n***a," Drizzy raps on the song.

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Drake fuels the flames with latin version of metro boomin diss line.

Just moments before Drake posted the footage of the drumline outside of Magic City, he added fuel to the already smoldering smoke between him and Metro. The 6 God shared another video in which a man wearing a cowboy hat is seen dancing with a woman to a Latin music version of the aforementioned diss bar he sent Metro Boomin's way.

Why Is Drake Going So Hard at Metro Boomin?

Drake dissed Metro Boomin on "Push Ups (Drop and Give Me 50)" after artists like Kendrick Lamar and The Weeknd used Future and Metro's back-to-back albums,  We Don't Trust You and  We Still Don't Trust You ,  as platforms to send lyrical shots at Drizzy.

It's now being assumed by many that Champagne Papi is going in particularly hard on Metro Boomin due to speculation surrounding recently uncovered evidence that Drake didn't write his lyrics to the "Jumbotron S**t Poppin." After a reference track leaked on Monday that finds Lil Yachty rapping Drake's lyrics on the Her Loss cut, DJ Akademiks and other hip-hop outlets are under the impression that Metro is responsible for the leak.

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In the video clips below, check out Drake going above and beyond to troll Metro Boomin and watch DJ Akademiks accuse Young Metro of leaking the "Jumbotron S**t Poppin" reference track.

Watch Drake Troll Metro Boomin With a Drumline Outside Magic City

See drake clown metro boomin with a latin version of his diss aimed at the producer, watch dj akademiks accuse metro boomin of leaking lil yachty's version of "jumbotron s**t poppin", see unnecessary hip-hop beefs that never should've happened, more from xxl.