this kid graduated school last year too. he went to NY for a summer to do music, he then came back to Atlanta and enrolled into Alabama State and didn''t like it. but i thought HBCUs were GOAT tho. 
By his senior year of high school (which, incidentally, was last year), determined to make it with music, he drew up a plan to spread his brand. When Yachty graduated high school, he moved to New York for the summer to crash on a friend’s couch and try to get into the type of fashion circles influencers like Ian Conner ran in.
Everyone looks up to them, you know what I mean? Whatever they're doing is cool.” With his red, beaded hair—a style he adopted at the encouragement of his mom, who’d originally made him cut his braids so he could get a job at McDonald’s—and sharp fashion sense, Yachty stood out and made those connections. But he didn’t have the buzz to really make money and support himself in New York. At his mom’s urging, he went back South and enrolled in college at Alabama State. He hated it.
“It's the South, and it's the country, so they're like five years behind,” he explained. “Like they all still wearing big T-shirts and baggy jeans. I had red hair with beads. I wear different clothes. They just used to make fun of me, like every time I stepped out of my room. So it got to a point where I stopped stepping out of my room. I just stayed in my room every day.” He would wear hoodies in the 90-degree heat to cover up his hair, but he was still pointed and laughed at in the cafeteria. “You know when you can feel somebody trying to take a picture of you?” he added. “It was lame.”
Discouraged by the bullying and bored with classes, Yachty dropped out and returned home, where he followed the same plan he’d cooked up in New York: “I started getting so known, you know what I'm saying, for the way I dress, for my teeth, you know, I got a grill,” he explained. “Everything, just my hair, girls started liking me.”
damn y'all down south nikkas still rocking the big white t-shirts and girbauds
By his senior year of high school (which, incidentally, was last year), determined to make it with music, he drew up a plan to spread his brand. When Yachty graduated high school, he moved to New York for the summer to crash on a friend’s couch and try to get into the type of fashion circles influencers like Ian Conner ran in.
Everyone looks up to them, you know what I mean? Whatever they're doing is cool.” With his red, beaded hair—a style he adopted at the encouragement of his mom, who’d originally made him cut his braids so he could get a job at McDonald’s—and sharp fashion sense, Yachty stood out and made those connections. But he didn’t have the buzz to really make money and support himself in New York. At his mom’s urging, he went back South and enrolled in college at Alabama State. He hated it.
“It's the South, and it's the country, so they're like five years behind,” he explained. “Like they all still wearing big T-shirts and baggy jeans. I had red hair with beads. I wear different clothes. They just used to make fun of me, like every time I stepped out of my room. So it got to a point where I stopped stepping out of my room. I just stayed in my room every day.” He would wear hoodies in the 90-degree heat to cover up his hair, but he was still pointed and laughed at in the cafeteria. “You know when you can feel somebody trying to take a picture of you?” he added. “It was lame.”
Discouraged by the bullying and bored with classes, Yachty dropped out and returned home, where he followed the same plan he’d cooked up in New York: “I started getting so known, you know what I'm saying, for the way I dress, for my teeth, you know, I got a grill,” he explained. “Everything, just my hair, girls started liking me.”
damn y'all down south nikkas still rocking the big white t-shirts and girbauds
