- Yo, what's up everybody, it's Lil Yachty
here with Buzzfeed, and right now
I'm about to be talking about some of my first times.
(hip hop music)
First time meeting Kanye West.
When I formally met him, like when we actually
had a conversation, was he invited me to
his studio in L.A., and Common was there.
He had invited me, and then he was there
for like five minutes, then left.
Sounds like very Kanye-like.
First time you realized you wanted to pursue a music career.
Um, that's a good question.
So, I used to play around and make like parodies
in middle school and stuff, but really, 100% was
I was in college one day.
I had just came back from being arrested.
I had got arrested in Florida.
I was in college, I was in history class,
or social studies or whatever the (bleep),
and I just remember being in the back of class,
the lights were off, and I had my laptop open,
and the teacher was talking, and it just sounded like
wah wah wah wah, and I was just sitting there,
I was like, Oh my god, I can't do this.
I gotta try music, you know, believe in myself.
Dropped out, did that (bleep), and now we're here.
First celebrity you ever met.
Ludacris or some (bleep) that I met as a kid.
First celebrity I met as a celebrity,
probably be Rocky though, Asap Rocky.
He and Common took me to his house,
he kept talking about how I was a graphic designer,
and really I was a rapper and he turned around,
he was on his computer and he turned around and said,
looked down and said, Who the (bleep),
is this weird ass (bleep) in my house.
And I was just like,
You know it's like, Oh it's the graphic designer
I was telling you about, he has some graphic designs
he wants to show you and I didn't have (bleep).
First album you ever bought
myself would be My Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West.
That was the first one I ever bought with my own money.
First one I ever got was Criss-Cross on cassette as a child
which inspired my hair and
a lot of my style, which is crazy.
I used to listen to it all day, all night.
First job, my first job I worked
at McDonald's, I was 14 or 15,
(bleep) make food (laughs)
All you should know is that (beep) sucks (laughs).
First car, my first car was a G-Wagon (laughs)
Mercedes because my mom wouldn't buy me a car,
so when I first saw my deal I was driving her car
Chevy BMW, I used to drive it all the time.
Then I bought her BMW, I paid it off,
she had a car note, I paid it off
so then I had that car and then I bought a G-Wagon.
So my first car was a G-Wagon.
First time someone recognized you in person.
I don't even know, but I do remember
I have a really good friend named Sed,
I remember me and Sed went into Lennox,
I said, one day I gonna walk in here and
ain't gonna be able to move,
I think we came back like a year and
the whole mall was following me, it was crazy.
Like I was with Sed and he was like,
you said that (bleep) man (tongue clicks)
First Instagram post, I remember my dad made me an Instagram
in like 2013, my dad had one,
I remember we was sitting in Five Guys,
it is so weird that I know this and
I had a red vans hat on and then,
he took a picture and he showed me it,
'cuz I remember I asked him,
how you get these filters, Instagram had filters.
He took a picture of me and showed me the filters
posted, first Instagram post.
First music inspiration, like I said,
Criss-Cross, definitely as far as style,
their hair, just swag, definitely Criss-Cross, 100%.
I don't think I've ever said that but, yeah.
First song or rap you ever wrote
was a song called Bittersweet, you could
still search it up on YouTube under RD.
The real song, I used to do parodies,
this was like the first real song I had ever did.
It was called Bitter and I did a video in my crib
when my momma was gone, had all my friends over.
I was wearing her clothes, I had took the ladder and
climbed on the roof and I was all on the roof and (bleep).
Bittersweet, that's funny as (bleep).
First embarrassing moment on stage,
see I really don't get too embarrassed
like, I forget lyrics all the time,
I'll say, Oops, I forgot that (bleep)
well you know, I'm just really goofy so,
you know a really embarrassing moment,
I had a show in LA and I brought out 21 Savage,
so he came out and my DJ, Oh my God my DJ just used to,
my old DJ, he would do stupid ass (bleep),
he just used to (bleep) up, so I brought him out,
brought out 21 Savage and he plays the choppy Skrill version
yo, it was going extra slow and it was like chopping,
and 21 was like tryna' do it and then
21's manager was 'bout to beat up my DJ
and 21 was about to throw the mic at my DJ.
That was embarrassing, that was the one time
I can remember I was truly like red cheeks embarrassed
like, what is happening, it was crazy.
I never told that story.
First edible experience, actually I was out in LA
with a group of friends , I think we went to a smoke shop
but I was young, I was like 16, 17 and
I couldn't get in yet, but they had
like samples, like edible samples and
I think I had a really small Rice Krispie treat,
just remember like being really stuck.
I don't think I ever did it again (laughs) after that.
First memory that comes to mind from the set of How High 2.
First memory I could remember, we did the table reading,
D.C. Young Fly's first time ever reading the script,
and you could clearly tell because
everyone was in character and
he was just kinda reading it like an essay.
But then when we came for set he had totally had it ready.
It was just funny 'cuz at the table read,
I had been trying extra hard but
obviously D.C.'s doing way more things
and I can make work for me so,
I had been super prepping for this script,
and then he was like, it was like nothing to him.
Make sure you check out my new movie, How High 2
premiering 4/20 on MTV, make sure you get extremely high
to watch it, extremely, extremely high, for How High 2.
(Hip hop music plays)