The Real Goat
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In one of the more brilliant calls in contemporary mixtape art direction, the cover for Lil Gotit’s The Real Goat features the Atlanta MC standing near a wall, his shadow taking the form of a goat. Anointing himself the greatest of all time is a hefty claim to make for an MC only on his third full-length project, but if The Real Goat tells us anything, it’s that he doesn’t lack for confidence. The rapper is self-assured about his influence on the greater Atlanta rap community, about his appeal to the opposite sex, about his willingness to punish disrespect with gunplay—through a nimble and occasionally garbled delivery that registers just a hair above a whisper. It’s a style descended—one of many, to be sure—from friend and collaborator Young Thug (Gotit’s brother Lil Keed is signed directly to Thug’s YSL Records). Gotit himself claims YSL, albeit in a slightly less official manner, but the way he flows over conspicuously minimal post-trap production from Wheezy, 10fifty, and Zaytoven (among others), Thug couldn’t be anything other than proud to have him waving the YSL flag.
