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who hyped up the crowd before Lil Yachty arrived stuck to the pneumatic-drill-intense hip-hop: Ferg, OG Maco, Young Thug, Skepta, Lil Uzi Vert. For a half-hour, he shouted his way through his cache of SoundCloud hits: the sleepily elegiac “Water on My Face,” the woozy “I Don’t … ,” the scrambled “Ice Water.” And, of course, “1Night,” twice.

That said, his performance last week was as rowdy as his songs are trippy. Lil Yachty sounds as if he’s laughing and as if he’s dazed, one mode inseparable from the other. “1Night,” his most widely known song, was used in a hilarious viral comedy video, but it’s effective all on its own: easy boasts delivered with a nasal swing at a turtle’s pace. Lil Yachty’s songs meander and stagger - they often sound like children’s music played on a warped turntable. Their children are, to a man, even stranger, as seen at two concerts with loads of thematic overlap last week: Lil Yachty, who performed Tuesday night at Webster Hall’s Marlin Room, and Lil Uzi Vert and Playboi Carti, who shared a bill Wednesday night at S.O.B.’s. Instead, it is a license for eccentricity, building a new generation raised almost exclusively on misfit elders, rappers who were (and sometimes still are) maligned for their unconventional approaches. This set of reference points doesn’t quite result in a unified aesthetic, though. For this generation, the tree of influence is short and irregularly shaped: Soulja Boy for self-started, Internet-driven fame ASAP Rocky and the rest of the ASAP Mob for flamboyance and for eradicating regional loyalty Chief Keef for the disassembly of traditional ideas about verse structure Young Thug for radiant weirdness and genuine indifference. In the way that the Internet has scrambled pretty much everything, it has remade the textbook of oddball rap.

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