"Infamous American rapper, Noah Oliver Smith, most commonly known as Yeat, is an objectively bad artist. His songs are meaningless and his beats are repetitive and dull. Despite all of this, Yeat has a fanbase of hundreds of millions of fans. While his songs are redundant, they have a special spark about them; they’re consistent and you don’t have to listen to the lyrics to enjoy them." -- Santiago Jaeger-Tovar, 9th grade
Yeat is from Irvine, California, born in a family of 5, with his parents, and two brothers. Noah Started initially making music in 2015, at age 15, under the name ‘Lil Yeat’, which came from the word ‘heat’ and the slang term ‘yeet’. Today, Lil Yeat’s songs have been deleted off the internet and are pretty tricky to find, but 3 years later, he dropped the ‘Lil’ and started going by just Yeat. This is when Yeat started seriously pursuing his rapping career, with his first mixtape, Deep Blue Strips, premiering in late 2018.
By 2021, Yeat struck gold, and started getting a lot of attention on social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram. This attention is what initiated his massive fame and cult-following. People were blown away by his out of the box style, rhyming, and flow. This quick rise to fame was a reaction from his ‘4L’ mixtape, which huge hits like “Sorry Bout That” and “Money Twërk”, which are still some of his biggest hits today. He followed this up with the Trendi EP, ahead of his first studio album “Up to Me”, and his first Billboard 200 appearance for the single “Talk”.
In 2023, Yeat entered a new era. Because of his massive fame, he decided to break away from his usual style and became more experimental, collaborating with unexpected artists and rapping on different beats on his third studio album, “Afterlyfe”. His growth as an artist continued on songs like “Bigger Then Everything,” which sampled a piano melody, and further cemented his beat, flow, and style alterations.
Yeat’s fame is mostly due to his flows and melody, because his storytelling and song meanings are essentially non-existent. His use of church bells have become iconic and are in nearly all his songs. He also commonly uses made up words like “Twizzy”, “Kranky”, “Luh” and “Geeky” to help make it so his lines can have end rhymes, internal rhymes, and slant rhymes.
Yeat’s fame is mostly due to his flows and melody, because his storytelling and song meanings are essentially non-existent. His use of church bells have become iconic and are in nearly all his songs. He also commonly uses made up words like “Twizzy”, “Kranky”, “Luh” and “Geeky” to help make it so his lines can have end rhymes, internal rhymes, and slant rhymes.
The biggest proof of Yeat’s progress is in his massive impact on the current rap game and social media. Yeat’s song “U could tell” was featured in a scene on an episode of popular show euphoria, and his song “Rich Minion'' was created for the children's comedy film “The Rise Of Gru”. Additionally, one of his songs was featured in a French politician’s campaign video, and in the Olympics when the pole vault world record was broken. Yeat has also had many collaborations with huge corporations, such as Nike, Applebees, and Dick’s sporting goods. Finally, Many argue that Yeat has largely influenced rappers apart of Playboi Carti’s record label; Opium, like Ken Carson and Destroy Lonely (This claim has not been confirmed nor denied by Ken or Lone).
While Yeat is a bad, unoriginal, and repetitive artist, he still has charm, his songs are inarguably catchy and have a massive impact and influence on rap and modern society as a whole.
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While Yeat is a bad, unoriginal, and repetitive artist, he still has charm, his songs are inarguably catchy and have a massive impact and influence on rap and modern society as a whole.
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