Even Lil Yachty agrees that certain streamers have become bigger than rappers.
During his interview with Shannon Sharpe for the Club Shay Shay podcast, Yachty asserts that some streamers are bigger than rappers, with Kai Cenat, iShowSpeed, xQc, and Adin Ross as some of the major players in their field.
Around the two-hour and 30-minute mark, Sharpe asked the 27-year-old to name a rapper Cenat would be equivalent to.
“He’s the Drake of streaming,” said Yachty of Cenat, who has over 16 million followers on Twitch.
“You got Plaqueboymax who is killing it right now, bro,” he continued. “I haven’t met him yet but I’m a big fan. We kind of connecting in the same way—connect through FaZe Clan. He’s just like [a] really canon, young Black dude. He’s just doing his thing. He love music, and he just putting on for the underground culture in a different way, in a different light, and he's killing it.”
Yachty also praised streamers for their authenticity in comparison to the heavily curated personas in rap.
“I appreciate these kids just going in front of their computer and like being themselves,” he said. “You know rap is a lot of, like, fake personas. Streamers are just them. It's just, ‘That's who I am, this is who I am.’ They could be a little corny sometimes, a little cheesy, but that's just them, you know? And that's just what it is.”
