Courtesy of High Snobiety

People have been mostly pretty quick to shrug off new-on-the-limelight artists such as Lil Yachty as “bad‰Û, and “not interesting‰Û, and “not good‰Û, and asking questions like “why is this popular?‰Û

Punk rock and Lil Yachty do not seem like they could be further apart. But after watching the above video, I started to think about Lil Yachty and mumble rap a little bit more. Take a quick gander at it and then come on back.

Lil Yachty and punk. It kinda makes sense the more you think about it: It‰’d be much easier for someone to throw some simple beats down and make music comparable to what he‰’s doing, but to make an album like YEEZUS? Takes a lot more.

As stated in the video, as more time passes more and more rules get built up and they get more and more rigid. Yachty is here to tell us to look a little closer at these rules and take a step back. It‰’s simpler music but I think that the genre as a whole could go somewhere because he‰’ll encourage a generation to start messing around with mumbling and beats as teenagers.

I know it sounds ridiculous right now, but think about punk. Before bands that broke the rules and simplified it, there weren‰’t high schoolers that could do what the main rockers were doing, and that is usually where the innovation came from. There weren‰’t high schoolers who could compose what the Rolling Stones were, but there were ones that could do what the Ramones were. The Sex Pistols definitely didn‰’t have music degrees, but they were creative and made some music that defined and redefined several decades.

That accessibility is more important than many often realize — youth brings energy and a real interesting sense of “the sky is the limit‰” into things, which create a type of innovation that Steve Jobs won‰’t be able to rip-off to put in the new iPhone. That is where I think Lil Yachty will take us.

PS: Also, take a look at how this dude dresses. This is so punk. You don‰’t see any other rapper breaking image norms like this, and it‰’s fitting for the times that we live in. Run the Jewels does it in a different kind of way, but definitely not this. Lil Yachty‰’s generation is coming.