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Lil Yachty and Amazon Charts: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing

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Carrie Battan | “Yachty’s music is not incidental to his image, but it is only one aspect of his brand. His songs have always been an entry to his meticulously crafted persona, not the other way around. At 19, he is a torchbearer for a class of rappers—and that’s a loose designation—for whom a career represents a tangle

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