Miles Parks McCollum (born August 23, 1997), better known as his stage name… Read Full Bio ↴Miles Parks McCollum (born August 23, 1997), better known as his stage name Lil Yachty, is an American hip hop recording artist from Atlanta, Georgia. Yachty gained recognition for his hit debut singles One Night and Minnesota from his debut mixtape Lil Boat in 2016. In February 2016, Yachty debuted as a model in Kanye West's Yeezy Season 3 fashion line at Madison Square Garden. On June 10, 2016 he announced he had signed a joint venture record deal with Quality Control Music, Capitol Records and Motown Records. He is working on a mixtape with his group of frequent collaborators, the Sailing Team, a mixtape with iLoveMakonnen, and Pretty Boy Billionaires 2, a collaborative mixtape with Soulja Boy, Lil B and Rich The Kid. His second mixtape Summer Songs 2 was released in July 2016. Since then, he has released many different styles of albums such as Teenage Emotions, Lil Boat 2 and 3, Nuthin 2 Prove, and Michigan Boy Boat. He has collaborations with some of the biggest artists in hip-hop such as Future, Juice WRLD, and Young Thug, as well as other genres such as Tame Impala and Joji. On January 27, 2023, Yachty released "Let's Start Here.", a psychedelic alternative rock album drawing influence from Pink Floyd's critically acclaimed "Dark Side of the Moon" and his own psychedelic journeys.