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Key Takeaways

• Lil Yachty returns with “Murda,” a solo single that samples Maggie Rogers and nods to Lil Wayne.
• The accompanying music video, directed by Cole Bennett, continues their long-running artistic partnership.
• “MURDA” drops simply forward of Lil Yachty’s Summer time Smash set.

Lil Yachty has one other hit on his palms. On Friday (June 6), the Concrete Boys frontman returned together with his first solo single of the yr, “Murda” — full with a music video directed by Cole Bennett’s Lyrical Lemonade.

“Behind scenes, s**t is homicide / It’s homicide, it is homicide / Free my dawg Dee Santi’ out that homicide,” Lil Yachty raps over a beat that samples Maggie Rogers’ “Alaska.” Elsewhere, he suggestions his hat to a legend: “Actual codeine collector, dawg, I sip extra drank than Weezy.”

The file itself follows a slew of collaborations Lil Yachty’s completed over the previous few months, together with 2 Chainz’s “SISTA WIVES” and “Can’t Be Crete Boy” with Veeze. Check out the visible for “Murda” under.

Lil Yachty And Cole Bennett Have Been Working Collectively For Years

Particularly these days, Lil Yachty is considered one of — if not the — most frequent collaborators in Bennett’s circle. The 2 first labored collectively in 2016 on a visible companion to “F**ok Up a Sack,” and since then, their joint résumé has been nothing in need of legendary. Lyrical Lemonade is behind visuals for data like “Strike (Holster),” “Sorry Not Sorry” and “Poland.”

“Yachty is only a actually good pal,” Bennett beforehand informed Complex. “He is been there for me, actually, for my complete profession. Since early in my profession, he is been somebody I might work with actually simply, it doesn’t matter what that could be.”

He added, “Yachty and my workflow actually comes down to only with the ability to take advantage of out of a bit of bit. We did ‘Poland’ simply working round New York. We did the ‘Strike’ video in his yard, a parking storage and a forest reserve up the road in like 4 hours.”

Funnily sufficient, the video for “Murda” arrived simply weeks earlier than Lil Yachty’s upcoming set on the 2025 Lyrical Lemonade Summer time Smash. He’s slated to carry out on June 22, with Younger Thug, Quavo, NAV, G Herbo and loads of others on the invoice for that weekend.

Following that, Lil Yachty will hit the street once more as a supporting act for Tyler, The Creator’s “CHROMAKOPIA: THE WORLD TOUR.” The “One Night time” rapper’s run with the “EARFQUAKE” hitmaker wraps up in September with a ultimate cease in Perth, Australia.