Drake & Lil Yachty Given Ultimatum By Mr. HotSpot Over Sample

Drake and Lil Yachty have been given a final ultimatum by Mr. HotSpot after they sampled his song “Goodness Gracious” on “Super Soak” without his permission.

Yachty leaked the song to streamer Kai Cenat earlier this month after Mr. HotSpot, an internet star best known for his viral dance videos and association with Tha Krew, refused to clear the sample due to his religious conversion.

HotSpot has now said that he will give clearance for the sample, but only if Drake and Yachty do a clean version of the song and alter some lyrics to make it more child-friendly.

Speaking on TikTok Live, he said: “We recorded them a clean reference. We sent that in to them so hopefully they re-record the clean reference and we come out with the clean ‘Goodness Gracious’ all together.

“It’s a process but it’ll be good for both of their brands like that and I’m blessed to work with children so we just gotta make it clean for them.”

He added: “We don’t need no children getting whooped cause they said this or that. If you look at the backside, it’s the children who really running these views up so if we can make sure both verses clean, everybody coming clean, everybody gonna benefit for sure.

“We ain’t trying to hold them back from nothing but we just need the morals correct, that’s all.”

During an appearance on comedian Andrew Schultz’s Flagrant podcast last week, Lil Yachty appeared unhappy that Mr. HotSpot had rejected his and Drake’s sample clearance request for “Super Soak.”

“He went down, like, a Christian path,” he said before revealing that HotSpot wasn’t interested in being compensated for the sample. “I don’t think we got in to money. He was like, ‘No.’ It was crazy, Everyone was like, ‘Are you serious?’”

Yachty also suggested that he and Drake could still make money from the song by performing it at shows, especially given the buzz surrounding it after being premiered by Cenat.

The Atlanta rapper was subsequently criticized for leaking “Super Soak” given Mr. HotSpot’s religious objections, which was seemingly part of the reason that Yachty decided to quit social media.

The leaked song also ruffled the feathers of Soulja Boy who suspected that Drake was taking a shot at him by appearing to reference his SODMG record label and 2007 song “Super Soak.”

After calling out the 6 God in a social media rant, the “Crank That” rapper clarified that he and Drizzy had cleared the air and that “it wasn’t no diss.”