Claressa Shields Backs Lil Yachty’s $400,000 Attack on “Ungrateful” Best Friend
A lot has gone down in the past few days, and now it seems rapper and singer Lil Yachty has had enough of his friend and podcast co-host MitchGoneMad. Yachty felt betrayed after a viral clip surfaced where he questioned Mitch’s success, asking where he would be without the backing of someone famous like him. Interestingly, heavyweight champion Claressa Shields has publicly sided with Yachty, agreeing with his perspective. But why?
In case you were living under a rock for the past week, here’s what went down. During the August 21st episode of ‘A Safe Place Podcast’ featuring Key Glock, the trio spoke about what advice they would give to Glock if he had to start over. While Mitch suggested he would think things through, Lil Yachty reminded Mitch where he would have ended up if it weren’t for him and his popularity.
[If] I was never in your life, what would you have been doing?” asked the rapper. This part of the clip was later shared on social media with people claiming Yachty publically disrespected his friend, but Lil Yachty seems to have taken offense to his friend and co-host Mitch, not defending him after the clip went viral. To put things into perspective, the podcast was started in June 2023 and has since seen a quick rise to fame, with guest appearances from Saweetie, Kai Cenat, J. Cole, ScHoolboy Q, and Veeze.
Regardless, Yachty hopped on an Instagram Live Session on August 22nd to highlight that the podcast was started just to shine a light on Mitch’s talent. “I said, ‘Alright, you know what? I’ma give you a platform. I’ma find someone to sponsor us. ‘We gon’ make a podcast, and I’ma show people how funny you are, I’ma show people how crazy you are, I’ma show you how cool you are.’ I [didn’t want to do a] motherf**king podcast, n**ga. I’m a motherf**king rapper,” Yachty said dismally.
He further added, “I put $400,000 in Mitch’s pocket, and y’all [are] sitting here talking about, ‘He’s disrespecting his friend’.” When Yachty’s rant on Instagram started gaining traction, Claressa Shields reacted to it stating, “A lot of celebs deal with s**t like this on the daily, ungrateful mfs!” However, things didn’t end there! After Yachty’s fiery response, Mitch seems to have responded to the drama.
Despite Lil Yachty rant, Mitch claims the next episode will be epic
The next day on August 23rd, Mitch finally took X, writing, “[I am] [skull emoji] the next podcast will be epic ion even think we need a guest this time lol.. see ya around.” In a later post on the same day, Mitch claimed he has never been anybody’s “lil bro,” asking people to take a look at his background because he “[I] had stats before [I] met bro and got even more now.”
In yet another post, Mitch claimed everyone who knows him knows that he has put in the work to get to where he is today. However, he finally acknowledged the clip that had originally started going around the internet of Yachty disrespecting him, writing, “He wasn’t trying to take [my hard work away] from me[,] we just debating on camera[,] it got taken out of context..”
It’s unclear whether Lil Yachty and MitchGoneMad were able to completely settle their differences. However, Mitch’s response seems to be in the same direction. What did you think about this entire exchange? Who do you think was at fault?
