The rapper’s first solo single if 2025 is based around a sample of Rogers’ breakthrough song “Alaska”
Lil Yachty is back with his first new song of 2025, “Murda,” which features a prominent sample of Maggie Rogers’ breakthrough 2016 song, “Alaska.”
The two-minute track is built around a loop of Rogers’ vocal hook from “Alaska,” which gets chopped up and utilized in a few different ways, sometimes drifting breezily through the atmospheric production, sometimes whirring wildly like a siren. Meanwhile, Yachty’s lyrics veer from the casually sinister — “We left that boy in a ditch/Audemars watch on my wrist” — to more contemplative and funny: “Pull up, what’s that smell?/I’m the shit with a house on the hill.”
“Murda” also arrives with a music video directed by frequent collaborator, AMD Visuals, and premiering via Lyrical Lemonade. The clip utilizes an array of surreal, abstract images, like a torrent of cash bursting through an open window and Yachty firing two guns at a shooting range while someone covers his eyes from behind.
While “Murda” is Yachty’s first solo song of the year, he’s done a few collaborations already, including “Can’t Be Crete Boy” with Veeze and “Sista Wives” with 2 Chainz. He also provided production on Lil Durk’s track “Untouchable,” which appeared on the Chicago rapper’s latest album, Deep Thoughts.
