“A wild pivot resulting in a pretty impressive psychedelic rock record”: Inspired by Pink Floyd, Lil Yachty’s Let’s Start Here is no dismissible Rap Side Of The Moon

Lil Yachty - Let's Start Here.

When this writer was growing up, the rap/hip-hop movement was an exciting proposition, telling stories from the streets enhanced by patching in sonic ideas from anywhere in music history – blues, classical, electronics, jazz, rock... a little like the pioneers of prog, huh?

But at some point the mainstream scene’s colour palette went monochrome with producer-performers seemingly happy enough if they created a beat and could spit some lyrics over it.