Lil Yachty's Daughter: Everything He's Said About Being a Dad

Lil Yachty keeps his daughter out of the spotlight

Lil Yachty is a protective father.

The rapper, who rose to fame in 2015 with his breakout hit “One Night," reportedly welcomed his daughter in October 2021. Despite his successful music career, which includes releasing a psychedelic rock album in 2023 and launching a record label in 2024, he has kept his private life away from the spotlight.

After the birth of his daughter, Lil Yachty chose not to reveal any information about his child or her mother. However, during an appearance on the podcast Going Mental in November 2022, Lil Yachty shared a rare comment about developing a “partnership” with his daughter’s mother.

“I’m real thankful for her. You know, she’s a really caring and understanding woman. She is not troublesome,” he said. “I tell her all the time. I’m real appreciative for her, you know, because It could have been something else. Right. So, like, it’s teamwork. It’s a partnership.”

From protecting his daughter’s privacy to his favorite thing about being a dad, here’s everything Lil Yachty has said about his daughter and fatherhood.

She was born in 2021

Lil Yachty reportedly welcomed his daughter in October 2021 in New York City, per TMZ. The rapper has yet to reveal his daughter’s name or the identity of the mother of his child, but he did share on Going Mental that he was in the room for his daughter’s birth, and “it was crazy.”

Lil Yachty has a good relationship with her mom

Though Lil Yachty doesn’t speak about his daughter’s mother by name, he has previously opened up about being amicable co-parents. In April 2024, the rapper made an appearance on the podcast DeepCut with VicBlends and shared that he’s thankful he and his child’s mother have a good relationship.

“I’m very grateful to the woman who I brought the child into this world with because she is such a strong individual and she is just like a really great person,” he said. “I couldn’t have asked for a better partner in that experience. I was truly blessed from above ... even though the situation didn’t go ideal like she is just a good person to watch over my child while I’m working and I’m away.”

Lil Yachty added, “I don’t have any doubts that she’s doing any weird s--- ... she’s respectful, and she’s smart and like she’s levelheaded. So I’m grateful.”

Lil Yachty keeps his daughter out of the spotlight

Lil Yachty doesn’t share photos of his daughter on social media and rarely speaks about her in interviews. During his appearance on DeepCut with VicBlends, the rapper said he protects his child’s privacy because he prefers to separate his career from his personal life.

“My career is my career, and then, you know, I try to keep my private life as private as possible to protect my sanity and just to like live as normal as I can,” he said. “People just don’t really know anything about me. I keep my personal life very personal, you know, like I’ve never posted my kid. I don’t speak about her publicly.”

Lil Yachty added that while he doesn’t “really care” to dispel rumors he hears about himself, he wants the public to know “my daughter is my world and I love her” and having a child has “changed my life.”

She isn’t interested in her dad’s music yet

The rapper may have millions of fans, but he can’t count his daughter as one of them just yet. In a March 2023 interview with Billboard, the rapper jokingly revealed that his daughter “doesn’t really give a f---” about his music.

“I haven’t played [Let’s Start Here] for her, but her mom plays her my old stuff,” he said. “The mother of my child is Dominican and Puerto Rican, so she loves Selena — she plays her a lot. [We watch] the Selena movie with Jennifer Lopez a s---ton and a lot of Disney movie s---, like Frozen, Lion King and that type of vibe.”

Lil Yachty is excited for her to grow

During his appearance on the Going Mental podcast, Lil Yachty said that his favorite part of being a dad is watching his daughter grow.

“I’ve never watched somebody learn things. Like watching her learn. Like watching her see her shadow for the first time,” he said. “She’s really silly, but I don’t know, I think it’s just watching her experience things for the first time like candy, or something like a lemon. All these things are just so funny to me, you know like she’s a really dramatic character. She shows everything, so it’s crazy.”

Lil Yachty added, “I’m excited for her to grow because I know I’m my dad’s son right, so my dad like was, I think without trying, he just really influenced me heavily to be a creative. You know my dad was a creative, my grandfather was a creative.”

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