Lil Yachty has addressed his brief spat with Lil Uzi Vert, noting he was surprised the “Just Wanna Rock” hitmaker actually had something nice to say recently.
Akademiks was a guest on the latest episode of Lil Boat’s A Safe Place podcast released on Wednesday (November 15), and mentioned that Uzi spoke highly of Yachty in a recent interview with him.
“I seen that. It surprised me,” he said, before adding, “I’ve never said a bad… I’ve never hated on Uzi ever.”
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When Ak suggested that their issues have simply been “subtle competition,” Yachty said: “That’s just Hip Hop. That’s rap. Man, this shit – you wouldn’t understand it, man. I don’t have a problem with him, though.”
He soon shut down the conversation after Ak started hypothesizing where the static came from, concluding: “I think it’s a lot of things but I don’t even care to talk about it.”
Watch the full interview below, with the Uzi topic starting around the two-hour mark.
The pair’s issues began in 2020, when Lil Uzi Vert randomly fired off an angry face emoji at Lil Yachty, followed by: “wya you know what u did in 2018,” to which Yachty replied: “What I do?”
Uzi humored him with a response but wrote only “JT,” seemingly insinuating some sort of issue went down between Uzi’s City Girls boo and Yachty.
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In response, Yachty shared a GIF of a man holding his phone and surrounded by several of his friends saying, “Aye y’all, come look at this.” Although Uzi retweeted the GIF, he soon deleted his initial tweets.
In July of this year, however Uzi actually had some high praise for Yachty, giving the “Poland” rapper his props for what they called “beat[ing] the washed allegations.”
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In the aforementioned interview with Akademiks, Uzi told the media personality that Yachty has been in the game for a minute and that the fact he’s still here is a testament to beating said allegations.
“Like you gotta understand – how long have [Lil Yachty] been around?” Uzi said to Ak in the clip. When Ak told them that Yachty had “been around a long time,” Uzi said: “That’s what I’m tryna tell you and he still ain’t even go nowhere. He’s definitely a n-gga that beat the washed allegations. He beat the shit out of it – on his own wave.”
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Just last month, fans thought Lil Yachty was dissing Lil Uzi Vert in a new song – but he was quick to clear up the rumors. He did, however, confirm that they are definitely not friends.
The unreleased song was premiered by Drake on his SiriusXM radio show Table For One, and it found Boat rapping: “No matter how bad they want the collab I ain’t friends with….”
The last part is cut off and left up for interpretation, and many fans thought Uzi’s name fit the description – as fans have long been clamoring for the pair to link up since they came into the rap game.
“U guys are delusional,” Yachty wrote to Twitter. “u n-ggas go around living your life acting like u know us… shit is od weird y’all be grown men too.. on here tryna piece shit together. don’t be knowin nothing, get a job.”
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And in a since-deleted tweet, Lil Yachty confirmed they wouldn’t collab since they’re not friends, but it wasn’t a diss since he and Uzi are “cordial.”
“I didn’t diss him, i said we won’t collab because we’re not friends. we aren’t.. we are cordial. y’all r gay,” Yachty continued.
