Today, Lil Yachty dropped Let’s Start Here, his follow-up to 2020’s Lil Boat 3, and as he promised, the album introduces a new sound for the Atlanta artist. “My new album is a non-rap album,” Yachty told Ice Box last year. “It’s alternative, it’s sick… It’s like a psychedelic, alternative project. It’s different. It’s all live instrumentation.”
Let’s Start Here. boasts appearances from Foushée, Justine Skye, and Diana Gordon, among others. Most of the guests on the LP make more than one appearance on the project—except for Teezo Touchdown, who only joins Yachty on “the ride-,” and Daniel Caesar who pops in for the closer, “REACH THE SUNSHINE.” Leading up to the album’s release, Yachty kept things pretty tight-lipped, only revealing the artwork and album title and dropping a teaser skit called “Department of Mental Tranquility.”
Notably absent from Let’s Start Here. is Yachty’s surprise experimental hit “Poland,” which Yachty released officially in 2022 after the song blew up on SoundCloud.