Lil Yachty ventures into Valee’s stylishly far-out universe on “Wombo,” a delightful ChaseTheMoney-produced oddity fashioned out of clanging noises. They’re a somewhat random match on paper, but the unlikeliness of the pairing is half the fun. Lil Yachty has been slowly but surely improving as a rapper over the last year, and he delivers one of the strongest verses of his career here, full of madcap imagery and charm. “I just changed the paint on my whip, it look vicious/Shawty in my head, said my hair look like licorice,” he rhymes casually. There’s still a simplicity to his raps, but they don’t feel forced here.
Yachty has obviously been working to make himself not just useful but valuable in situations like these. Even so, no amount of preparation can make him Valee’s peer; the Chicago stylist performs with an ease that eludes Yachty. Raps pour out of Valee as if drawn from an endless spring, and he’s constantly conjuring images that transform luxury items into hallmarks of a shining personality (“Black and white two-seater, look like piano”). The great divide between them is evident in their methods of presentation: Yachty lacks perceptiveness whereas Valee is remarkably instinctual. But Yachty is no longer the struggle-rap albatross he once was, and “Wombo” makes good on two rappers seeking higher ground.
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