Lil Yachty is the cover star of the the summer issue of Paper.
In the new issue — appropriately focused on “Youth” — the Teenage Emotions star poses in a variety of situations that showcase his particularly youthful brand. The 19-year-old upstart rides a motorcycle, eats a handful of candy, lounges with a few boat plushies and plays with googly eyes. Check out the cover up top and a few choice shots below.
Inside the magazine, the “Peek A Boo” rapper shared that he grew up listening to a mix of all kinds of music via his father, who gave Yachty his birth name of “Miles” after famed trumpeter Miles Davis.
“When I was growing up, my dad played everything — Coldplay, Radiohead, John Mayer, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Paul McCartney, Outkast… he was all over the place,” he told the magazine.
However, when it came time to make a new album, Yachty was thinking of more recent sources. In the interview he shouts out Chris Martin, Kendrick Lamar and Childish Gambino as songwriters that he admires before drawing a direct line between one of his tracks and a critically adored musician.
“I got that vibe from Blood Orange,” he said, when discussing the prom night standout “Bring It Back.”
Check out the whole interview and few more shots over at Paper.
