Lil Yachty, hard left-turns, and the niche
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I wrote this long before you're reading it, and right this moment I'm jamming to Lil Yachty's album Let's Start Here. If you're unfamiliar (or my mom), let me set the scene:
I’m so fascinated by music & the crazy industry that surrounds it. In any normal profession, getting to the very peak of your career and then turning into a hippie is career suicide. If the world’s top insurance saleswoman started telling her clients, “You know, what are we actually insuring anyway? Our bodies are just the vessel to our soul…” She’d be out of a job. Meanwhile Lil Yachty used the years of goodwill he’s built doing one genre extremely well, and turned it into something completely different he also enjoys. There’s a ton of content about niching down vs. becoming the niche, and those conversations can often become a bunch of TikTok growth garbage. I think most creators should follow Lil Yachty’s path — do one thing super well, experiment within it, gain notoriety, and parlay the diehard fanbase you build into a platform with room for everything you’re interested in. Each of us have other topics we want to create about… They’ll just have to wait for now. Talk soon, |
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