Lil Yachty Explains Why He Appreciated Getting Dissed by Eminem in 2018

Most artists probably wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of a diss from Eminem, but Lil Yachty wears it like a badge of honor.

Em took a shot at the Atlanta rapper on 2018’s “The Ringer” when he rapped, “Get this f—kin’ audio out my Audi yo, adios/ I can see why people like Lil’ Yachty, but not me though/ Not even dissin’, it just ain’t for me/ All I am simply is just an emcee.”

Seven years later, Yachty reflected on getting name-dropped by Em during an appearance earlier this month on Tea Time W/ Raven & Miranda.

“Eminem actually dissed me, but I thought it was amazing. If you say my name, it’s like, you could’ve said anyone’s name,” Yachty said. “So, you’re saying my name? I’m like, ‘That’s kinda fire.’ I was like, ‘You could’ve said anybody and you said me?’ Am I the top of the nobodies? I wasn’t mad at it all, I was like, ‘Fire!’ I’ll take it any day of the week.”

Yachty was one of the faces of the SoundCloud generation of rap that exploded in the mid-2010s. He faced backlash at times, as some classified his bubblegum trap as “mumble rap.”

The ATL native is far from the last and not nearly the first public figure to have Eminem throw a lyrical jab in their direction. At the time, Yachty tweeted out that he was cool with being dissed by Slim Shady.

“Lmao me personally I think it’s fye Eminem took a shot at me.. I f–k wit Eminem,” he wrote on Twitter in 2018, per HotNewHipHop.

“The Ringer” landed on Em’s Kamikaze album in 2018 and the Platinum track peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Watch Lil Yachty’s interview and listen to “The Ringer” below.