Lil Yachty was dissed by DDG in 2017, leading to the YouTube personality gaining millions of views — but Yachty had no idea who he was.
Talking to streamer Kai Cenat on Monday (April 18), Lil Boat praised DDG’s business acumen while recalling the 2017 diss. DDG previously explained that he thought Yachty name-dropped him in a freestyle, but it turns out he was actually shouting out a group from his high school with similar initials.
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“DDG got on dissing me. That’s how he got on,” Yachty said. “I was so confused [when I saw it.] I had no clue who he was. And I would never diss someone. First of all, I don’t diss people. But EDG was a group I had in high school. So when I saw him tweet I was just confused, like in my high school there was a group called EDG [and that’s what I said on the song.] So I was just saying, ‘I don’t know you.’ I just didn’t know him.”
He continued: “So when I said I didn’t know him, he took it personal and he made the whole diss song. I fully respect him. I like him as a business man and a hustler and as an internet [personality]. He knows how to control the internet. He’s smart. He’s just smart.”
Talking to HipHopDX in a 2020 interview, the YouTuber-turned-rapper actually detailed how he cashed in millions of views off of the situation with Lil Yachty.
DDG said it all began when he mistakenly thought Lil Boat name-dropped him in his freestyle over Tay-K’s infamous track “The Race.”
Seeking to make a viral moment of it all he quickly fired off a reaction video to his YouTube channel. But after Lil Yachty publicly denounced the shout-out and claimed he had no idea who the “Moonwalking In Calabasas” rapper was, DDG decided it was time to fire-off his diss “Big Boat.”
“I know he didn’t, like, mean to say nothin’ disrespectful to me, but I’m like — at the time I’m lit on YouTube,” DDG said, eyebrows raised.
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“I’m pulling views, this is 2017, I’m pulling 500k-600k, a million, a million, a million, a million. It didn’t have nothing to do with like, no real beef or nothing like that. I’m a fan of Lil Yachty, so, it was cool.”
The Pontiac-made rapper got his wish — in the form of views, of course, as “Big Boat” has more than 13 million views on YouTube to date. The pair ended up trading subliminal shots in the weeks following the release of diss and DDG went on to say that he eventually reached out to Yachty to let him know there was really no bad blood.
