Lil Tecca has found himself on the wrong side of the internet after an unreleased track he shared a snippet of didn’t go down too well with fans.
A clip of Lil Tecca working in the studio recently surfaced online. In it, you can hear the sample he plans to use: Brandy and Monica’s “The Boy Is Mine.”
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In addition, he spits a few bars from the unreleased track. “I keep my day going, I keep my bitch straight/ Said she want casamigos, it’s a lit night,” he raps.
Check out the full clip below:
DJ Akademics eventually posted the clip to his Instagram page, where the comment section tore into the 20-year-old rapper. The Queens native was criticized for his lack of originality, and for wasting such a valuable sample.
“No sample will be left standing after this new generation of rappers,” one person commented, while another one wrote: “We need to get far away from samples.”
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“I hate when n-ggas sample a hood song just to be mid,” a third user declared.
“Damn Maxine from Living Single going crazy!” one person hilariously joked, followed by another who was straight to the point: “N-ggas need to leave the classics alone.”
Some of the people in Ak’s comments were feeling the track, with one fan declaring Lil Tecca “underrated” and saying “he doesn’t get his respect.” Another user said of the track: “He’s saving the summer.”
Lil Tecca burst onto the scene around 2019 with the release of his debut mixtape We Love You Tecca. The 18-track effort was fueled by the success of his breakout single “Ransom,” which appeared twice on the tape with the original and a Juice Wrld remix.
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As a result of its initial release, the mixtape peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, and eventually went platinum, allowing him to rub shoulders with artists like J.Cole and Russ who have achieved the feat of selling over one million units of their album without any guest appearances since 2017.
In 2020, he released his studio album Virgo World, which reached the Top 10 on the Billboard 200. His second mixtape, We Love You Tecca 2, followed a year later.
