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Today, guys, I'm talking with Lil Boat aka Lil Yachty.
He’s actually from the Atlanta area, where I'm from.
It was very exciting to talk to him about not only his crypto portfolio,
but he also gives us some lessons that all crypto holders can learn from.
Then we're going to get into his latest excursion into crypto
by talking about a new crypto project we discussed on the channel before,
Fyooz.
Alright, guys. Let's go ahead and jump into the interview.
Hey, everybody! Today, I'm joined by the one and only Lil Boat.
Some may know him as-- some people may know him as Lil Yachty.
He is from the Atlanta area where I'm at here.
So excited to have him on the show.
We're going to talk about crypto.
We're going to talk about what you got going on with NFTs and a really cool project
that I mentioned a while back on the channel, Fyooz.
So, Lil Boat, what's up?
Yo, man. Thank you for having me, man. I'm very appreciative.
Yeah, absolutely.
And we were chatting before we came on.
Like, you've actually been in, you know, NFTs and crypto for quite a while now.
So if you want to--
first and foremost, like, you know, talk about, you know, kind of your career?
Like, how did you get started in the music business and where are you at now?
So I think I started, you know, taking music seriously 2015.
That was the year I graduated high school.
And my career took off in 2016.
From there, I just hustled and grind.
- Here we are in 2021, I'm still here. - You're doing it.
Yeah, it's interesting.
A lot of people think careers are longer than they are, you know, in a lot of businesses.
It's rare that people last, you know, this long.
And several people, you know, they're basically one and done.
They'll have one good song or, you know, whatever,
but one thing that I think you've done really well,
and I think this kind of lends over to cryptocurrency as well or crypto assets,
is that you stay kind of on the cutting edge.
You use social media.
You're on TikTok.
You know, there was a video we were talking about I saw of yours on TikTok.
I'm on TikTok as well.
Yeah.
And you understand like how to stay on the cusp of things and how to stay on the front end of things.
How do you think your ability to promote yourself on social media has helped out your career?
I'm an internet kid.
You know, I'm internet baby,
so I tend to, you know, connect and really act and talk and just relate and socialize.
I'm not like-- I don't use it as just a platform to promote.
- Like, I'm really active on my socials. - Yeah.
Personally, you know?
So I think people understand and they see that.
Yeah, I think, I mean, I obviously said promote yourself on social media,
but I think it sounds like you use it very similar to how I do.
I mean, you want people to know who you are.
You know, you want people to know you're a regular person
and, you know, down to earth.
I mean, we've chatted before the stream here-- or before the interview,
and, you know, you're just a regular guy.
I like that about you.
You just hopped on, very conversational,
and we think that's a lot of the same things that make our channel here successful.
It's just being relatable to people. So I think that's really cool.
Well, let's talk about what's going on with your thoughts on crypto.
I know, yesterday, the market crashed.
I know you probably felt some of that.
What is in Lil Yachty's portfolio?
Okay. So I have six wallets.
I have Coinbase, Coinbase Wallet, Robinhood, Binance, MetaMask and Trust.
Oh, so you got a wide variety there.
Of course, Ethereum is my favorite.
You know, DOGE was my favorite last.
You know, I was on DOGE--
I got into DOGE in December.
I mean, you know what that means.
Ethereum, Bitcoin, Compound, Uniswap, Stellar,
POLY,
Chainlink, Cardano,
I got BAT, Basic Attention Token,
Chainlink, GRAPH,
so I got a few things, man, you know?
- Yeah. - I got YUMMY coin.
Of course, I got Binance, Binance Smart Chain,
tons of shitcoins,
- You're doing it. - Bitcoin Cash.
- You're-- - Everywhere.
- You are-- - Not everywhere,
but I got my hands on a few plats because it's fun.
- It's fun. - Yeah.
It's like--
It reminds me of the casino.
It does.
It's like the casino, you know?
And so it's just a fun-- it's a real fun game to just dibble and dabble and learn about--
like, I just found out about Ethereum 2 and Ethereum Classic.
You know, like, so I'm not a genius when it comes--
I learn every day and I really love learning.
I love enjoying-- I enjoy like learning new things.
And this has been such a learning experience, and I'm learning so much every day.
I learn about new tokens every day and new cryptos.
And it's just cool, man.
It's fun. I love teaching people in knowledge that I know.
They can get into it and they can get adjusted,
and they come back to me and they learn more when I teach them something.
It's just fun.
Yeah. And I can-- I mean, I can tell you when I ask most people, most celebrities or athletes,
that come on the show what they own--
I mean, if you're in Compound and you're in some of those coins,
especially Basic Attention Token,
we like to say when Basic Attention Token is up that the BAT's in the belfry, you know?
Like as a--
- That's a good one. - Yeah.
We like Basic Attention Token, so.
Alright. So cool.
So, how are you feeling--
how are you feeling when the market crashed this week?
Well, you know, I've seen it before.
It wasn't like new to me, you know?
I mean, I wasn't happy,
but I'm blessed enough and thankful that, you know, I don't depend on my crypto wallet.
It's not my first account, you know?
It's not like my--
honestly, I was just messing around with it.
It just so happens to make me five times more money.
And I'm a holder, you know.
Only time--
well, I trust these.
Only time I'm scared is when it's dropping some shitcoins.
That's when it's like because they're not as stable and as strong sometimes to come back up.
- You know? Sometimes, when they take hits, - Yeah.
that's the devastation.
Like with Shiba.
That broke my heart.
That one, you know, went down in the legs, blew out and it never got back up.
You know? So, like those types, I get out of that. I get scared.
But with these--
I call these the legend coins.
With legend coins, you know, I have no fear.
I know what they'll do.
- You know, I hope they-- - Yeah.
God forbid, I hope they drop more.
I hope they drop more so I can buy more.
Seriously.
I keep telling myself--
man,
me and my homies could talk as, I'm like,
"Yeah, I don't know with that. If that Bitcoin-- is it going to go lower than 30?"
Like, you know? So,
we'll see.
Yeah, well, it could.
I mean, it could certainly go lower than 30, but we're crossing our fingers that it doesn't.
I like to see the prices go up.
You know, I'm in a unique situation where we get paid for a lot of our stuff in crypto,
so we're constantly getting new money put into the market.
So I just like to watch it go up.
- I don't like for it to go down. - Well, I do, too.
You know, definitely me too, but I like to--
- I like to buy more. You know? - Yeah.
Of course, I like to sit on mine,
but also in situations where you can buy more for cheaper--
- because we will go up. - Yeah.
- We know that it will one day, you know? - We know that.
I'm patient.
Whether it's tomorrow or whether it's next year,
- it will happen, you know? So I-- - Yeah.
I mean, of course, I would rather it happen today than tomorrow,
but, you know, if there's opportunity for me to buy more at a lower amount,
I'm going to take it.
Yeah, well, you're speaking the right language for sure.
The little tugboat that could.
That's what it is.
HODL, HODL, HODL all day long.
- So, okay. Well, let's-- - Yeah.
let's talk about what you got going on with Fyooz.
So Fyooz is kind of a gem that I had uncovered a while back.
It's an NFT platform that is involving events.
And I've told me over a long time, you know,
NFTs like digital cards or art,
this is just phase 1.
After I started working on Fyooz,
I started to learn the lang--
this platform where like celebrities could like do a token and interact and stuff,
it started becoming really big.
Like, it started becoming like a thing like, you know.
But I just--
I feel like Fyooz is one of the first, you know, corporations and apps to really do it and really sink in
and really connect like artists with NFTs and with experiences and, you know.
The other thing--
I think what's a little different about Fyooz's was it's--
I believe it's a non-American based kind of app, so--
- Yeah. - Right?
When I did my releases, you know, they weren't available in America.
You know, like, the YachtyCoin wasn't available.
So that was a different thing, you know.
But on the other hand,
- I think the experiences are really cool and-- - Yeah, we're seeing kind of the next phase of like,
you know, Cameo, the company.
They actually reached out to me.
They want me to do cameos where, you know, you go on and you'd like say
happy birthday to a fan or whatever.
- I don't know if I'm going to do it. - I heard about that.
- Yeah, so-- - I heard about that.
Yeah, so that's like kind of just a very basic way to interact with fans,
but, you know, with these NFTs where you're able to win these experiences,
I know they got some stuff going with Post Malone that, you know, they want me involved in.
That's pretty interesting.
And you have something going on with, I guess, is it a recreation of your first music video?
- What--? Your concert first video? What is it? - Yes.
- So the song that blew me up is called One Night. - Yup.
It was a really, really viral moment in hip-hop 2016.
And so basically we're recreating that moment
and allow my fans to buy a piece of that moment.
So we're doing One Night NFTs for the anniversary.
And basically, you know, to get an NFT, you have to buy YachtyCoin, you know?
And so--
and all the top YACHTY holders get to, you know, indulge in experiences
and, you know, unreleased music and all these different cool situations
involving me, you know.
If you have over $350 worth of YachtyCoin,
- you have first dibs on everything. - Wow.
You know, or whatever it is.
And that's probably fair.
You know, fair price, so, you know.
I think it's a cool way to connect.
Yeah, that's not-- I mean, $350, you know, I think is affordable for most people in crypto,
especially those that want to have an experience with you.
Are you seeing what the people are getting involved in YachtyCoin?
Are you seeing mostly your fans involved in that?
Or are you seeing mostly like people in crypto?
- Like, what kind of mix of people are you seeing? - Oh, first--
one we did in 2020,
- it was more so people in crypto, you know? - Yeah.
Like--
you know, the Winklevosses,
few other people.
But I believe that was because
we were auctioning them off and were pretty high,
- you know, like, going up for $15,000, $17,000. - Yeah.
And, you know, it was getting pretty high.
And, of course, I don't--
I'm not saying that some of my fans probably don't have $15,000 to spend on digital token,
- but, you know, I have a pretty young fan base. - Yeah.
Yeah, so, now, with all the NFT craze that we've seen across the last, you know, few months,
you know, maybe you'll see more people that are not necessarily involved in crypto
getting involved with YachtyCoin because they want the experience.
And I think this is key for people to understand,
which is, in crypto, we want more people.
We want more people in crypto.
We need more people in crypto.
And things like this
that allow your fans that know nothing about it maybe to come into the crypto world,
and especially like with TikTok generation,
like, people are getting more interested investing from younger and younger ages,
I mean, I think that's a pretty good kind of--
I call it a Trojan Horse.
You know, a Trojan Horse to get people into crypto where you present one idea,
and then that allows them to kind of go down the rabbit hole
or the rabbit trail of understanding what crypto is about.
- 100%. - Yeah.
So, where can people go to find out more about YachtyCoin and about this NFT?
The Fyooz app, you know. Download the Fyooz app.
It's spelled a little funny.
- It's F-Y-O-O-Z. - Yeah.
You can learn more about what we got going on over there.
Yeah, and you can also-- if you want to go straight to the Lil Yachty page on Fyooz,
it's us.fyooz.io/lil-yachty.
Yeah, so, you guys go visit that.
We'll have the link down in the description for people to go and check it out if they want to.
You have any final thoughts on NFTs, crypto, who you like in hip-hop today?
I think-- I just always like to say to anyone who asks me about crypto, you know,
don't be discouraged, you know, when there's a market dip.
Hold and have faith.
So, yeah.
It always comes back up.
- You've got to let-- - Always comes back up.
I mean, just a few weeks ago,
about a month ago when Bitcoin is at $64,000,
literally, every person who had ever bought it in history was massively up.
So you’ve just got to remember, it will always come back around.
It'll always cycle.
And hopefully, it'll come back up sooner rather than later.
Well, Lil Boat, Lil Yachty, Mr. Boat Yachty,
thank you so much for coming on the show today.
It's been a pleasure and I look forward to seeing you again in the future.
- Thank you so much for having me. - Absolutely, man.
Alright, guys. Make sure to drop your comments down below on what you think about the NFT experiences.
That’s all I got.
Be blessed.
BitBoy out.