Lil Yachty revealed he envisioned his future with Drake throughout an acid journey years earlier than their first collab ever hit streaming platforms.

Lil Yachty opened up about his friendship with Drake, crediting an acid journey for kickstarting their inventive bond.

The Atlanta rapper and frequent Drake collaborator mirrored on how their inventive connection started throughout a livestream Wednesday night time (August 13).

“I manifested it, bro,” Yachty stated throughout his look on PlaqueBoyMax’s stream. “I was doing acid one night, bro, and I was like, man, I would really love to work with Drake, man. That’s like one of my favorite rappers. I was just talking to the abyss, like I was speaking to a higher power, and I manifested it. I did.”

He added, “This was years ago. This is before we ever did anything.”

Lil Yachty says he manifested working with Drake earlier than they knew one another 😭 pic.twitter.com/aH20IuAvzz

— PlaqueBoyMaxUpdates (@PlaqueReport) August 14, 2025

The Atlanta rapper’s imaginative and prescient finally was a full-fledged inventive partnership.

Their first official observe collectively, “Oprah’s Bank Account,” dropped in 2020 and marked the start of a gradual working relationship. Since then, Yachty has performed a behind-the-scenes position on a number of main Drake initiatives.

Lil Yachty holds writing and manufacturing credit on a number of songs from Drake’s 2023 album For All The Dogs and Her Loss, his joint undertaking with 21 Savage.

The collaboration goes past the studio, with each artists referring to one another as “brothers” regardless of occasional hypothesis about tension—most not too long ago over a leaked observe final yr.

Drake made it clear simply how a lot Yachty’s enter formed For All The Dogs, telling him straight, “I don’t think this album is what it is if I don’t get to run everything by you. If I don’t get to sit in the studio and write with you, and think with you, and if you don’t send me beats, and if you don’t tell me what you believe in or don’t believe in.”

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