Key Takeaways:

• Lil Yachty says psychedelics performed a task in shaping his artistic imaginative and prescient and future targets.
• He shared the story throughout a livestream with PlaqueBoyMax, calling Drake certainly one of his greatest mates.
• The rapper’s collaborations with Drake embody “Oprah’s Bank Account” and “Another Late Night,” however the connection began years earlier.

Lil Yachty knew he was going to work with Drake in the future. However, the route the Atlanta rapper says he took to creating that occur could increase eyebrows.

According to the “One Night” artist, he “manifested” his friendship and future collaborations with Drake after he dropped acid. While showing on PlaqueBoyMax’s stream on Wednesday (Aug. 13), Lil Yachty spoke on a number of the most proficient artists he’s labored with and instantly identify dropped the late Juice WRLD, Tyler, The Creator and Drake. The on-line streamer then requested, “How [did] you start working with Drake? ‘Cause I feel like that s**t just happened?” And from there, Lil Yachty obtained deep.

“I manifested it, bro,” he mentioned. “I was doing acid one night, and I was like, ‘Man, I would really love to work with Drake.’ That’s one of my favorite rappers. I was just talking to the abyss. I was speaking to, like, a higher power, and I manifested it. I did. This was years ago. This was before we ever did anything.”

The Teenage Emotions creator then described how he and the Toronto rapper went from following one another on their “finsta” Instagram accounts to changing into real friends. “That’s, like, one of my best friends,” added Lil Boat. “Manifestation is real… Dead**s, I manifested… becoming famous, becoming a rapper. All this s**t manifestation for real for real. You gotta speak this s**t into existence.”

Over the years, Lil Yachty, who additionally recalled being on FaceTime with Tyler, The Creator and A$AP Rocky whereas he was nonetheless in highschool, has collaborated with Drake over a handful of instances. A few their joint efforts embody “Oprah’s Bank Account” from his Lil Boat 3 album and “Another Late Night” from Drizzy’s For All The Dogs album.

Sounds prefer it was written into the celebrities, certainly.