Mr. Hotspot Explains Why He Didn’t Clear Sample for Drake & Lil Yachty
Lil Yachty‘s song with Drake, “Super Soak,” continues to cause controversy.
First, Soulja Boy took issue with some of Drake’s lyrics that mentioned his record label Stacks on Deck. Then, during an appearance on the podcast Andrew Schulz’s Flagrant With Akaash Singh in late July, Yachty revealed the reason why he sent the song to streamer Kai Cenat to begin with.
“I sent a song to Kai to leak. We couldn’t get the sample cleared, so I just let Kai play it,” he said. When asked why the sample wasn’t cleared, Boat said the social media personality “went down a Christian path.”
The social media personality that he’s referring to is Mr. Hotspot. He’s mostly active on Instagram, and his posts are generally of him dancing and telling people to smile. He’ll also make songs like “Smiling Good Like” and the song Yachty and Drake sampled “Goodness Gracious.”
Over the weekend, Mr. Hotspot hopped on IG Live to tell fans his side of the situation, saying he’s open to clearing the sample if they make a clean version of the song. “We recorded them a clean reference and we sent it into them, so hopefully they rerecord the clean reference and we come out with the clean ‘Goodness Gracious’ altogether,” he said. “So I said it’s a process, but it’s … it’ll be good for both of their brands like that, and I’m blessed to work with children, so we just gotta make it clean for them.”
He added, “We don’t need no children getting whooped ’cause they said this or that, you understand? And if you look at the backside, it’s the children who really runnin’ these views up. So, if we make sure both verses clean, everybody coming clean, everybody gonna benefit for sure. It’s a process, but we appreciate you being patient. We sent it in, they got it today and them boys about to turn up. We ain’t tryin’ to hold them back from nothin’, but we just need the morals correct, that’s all.”
This wasn’t the only drama Yachty found himself in.
During the same podcast interview, he also mentioned Drake was “unfazed” after his rap battle with Kendrick Lamar, which, of course, became a topic of discussion on social media. But, that’s not all. A couple weeks ago, he went viral for saying people from New York couldn’t dress when he had Cash Cobain on his podcast A Safe Place.
“Everyone used to just kinda copy Atlanta. You said it yourself,” Boat told the Bronx rapper. “You just said even like the influence was extremely heavy from Atlanta. … As far as style goes, I don’t think it’s s–t going on when it comes to New York fashion.”
This, too, caused a stir on social media, which leads us to what the the rapper said Thursday (Aug. 1). Yachty to took Instagram Live and announced that he was going to stay quiet going forward. “I’m not doing no more talkin’,” Yachty said. “I don’t got s—t else to say. I’m gone off this internet s—t. I think I’m gone for the rest of the year. I swear to God. I ain’t got s—t else to say.
He added, “Contracted to do this podcast s—t, unfortunately contracted to, but I ain’t posting no more hs—t. I ain’t posting no fits. I’m deleting the apps off my phone. I swear to God … I’m not tweeting, I’m minding my f–king business.”
Angel Diaz
Billboard
