Lil Yachty: "Where in the Handbook of Hip-Hop Does It Say You Must Know This List of Songs to Make Music?"

Lil Yachty has gotten criticism for his recent interview with Billboard, where he admitted that he couldn’t name five songs from 2Pac or The Notorious B.I.G. He added, "if I'm doing this my way and making all this money, why should I do it how everybody says it's supposed to be done?"

Fair enough. But not all artists necessarily agree with his perspective on hip-hop. Anderson .Paak, a multi-talented artist who has been shutting down festivals this year with his band The Free Nationals, tweeted some words for younger artists. Although he didn’t specifically mentioned Yachty in his tweet, many could assume it was directed at him. “Don't be cocky in the fact that you don't know anything about hip hop history. Real artists are students of the game first,” he wrote.