Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

So the most talked about new album of the week is called Let's Start Here.

And it's by the rapper Lill Yotti.

It's an interesting and instantly controversial album. He delves into what we can only call his own version of psychedelic rock on it.

It's definitely a wild left turn of an album.

So that seemed like a good reason to go over the broader history of left-turn

albums because there's certainly been a lot of those and to do that with me I have

Rob sheffled here. Welcome happy birthday Rob. Thank you so much what a

happy occasion to talk about on my birthday.

That's right, for your birthday week, Lil Yotti gifted you with this album.

Yotti mostly sings over, basically, psychedelic rock, a bit in the tame and parlor vein.

Y

Y Y Yottis things. Yotti's thing even before this he referred to himself as bubblegum trap and

his thing was always like the guy who didn't have much to do with the history of hip-hop

didn't necessarily have huge reverence for the history of hip-hop originally.

I mean if you listen to an early single like Minnesota.

You need to stay up on the streets if you can't take the heat.

Cause it's like Minnesota.

Call like Minnesota.

So quirky.

It almost has this outside of art type aspect to it and then turned around and seemed to be trying to prove himself a bit as a rapper

One critic said that he then started to seem like a quote-unquote mid-mainstream rapper.

...