Lil Yachty Reveals He’s Seven Months Clean From Lean: “It Was Taking Over”
Lil Yachty is seven months clean — and he never made a big announcement about it. The news slipped out in the middle of a livestream.
Yachty was live on Kick with streamer Cuffem last Friday (Nov. 6) for a mukbang when Cuffem pulled up with a cup, expecting Boat to pour up with him like old times. That’s when Cuffem found out those days are behind him.
“Chat, I pulled up with the cup,” Cuffem told the stream. “I thought my n***a Boat was sipping. He’s seven months clean! I’m the only druggie leaned-out n***a left!”
Yachty kept his explanation short and kept it all the way real: “Yeah, that s*** was taking over.”
The moment comes from Yachty and Cuffem’s Nov. 6 Kick livestream, clipped and shared by @adinupdates on X. XXL reported the exchange on Nov. 9.
This is not Yachty’s first time putting the cup down in public. Back in September 2023, he revealed he had stopped drinking lean, showing off a slimmer look and a new haircut — and when people clowned the transformation, he fired back: “I did not stop drinkin lean for n****s to bully me and tell me i look like i have leukemia.” A month later, on an October 2023 episode of his A Safe Place podcast with Lucki, Yachty said he was 10 months clean from lean.
More recently, during a September 2026 appearance on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Yachty opened up about being on and off lean for about ten years — and said the chance to wrestle in WWE is what finally got him serious about his health. “I probably stopped drinking lean about five months ago, six months ago,” he said at the time. “The second I heard, like, the possibility of maybe? I said ‘oh, I’m taking it seriously,’ and I stopped drinking lean.” He credited the training grind and his friendship with WWE star Trick Williams for pushing him to be a better person and take his health seriously.
That timeline lines up with what he told Cuffem: the same run of clean living that started with his WWE training is now at seven months.
Salute to Boat. Too many artists in this culture never get the chance to put it down, and hearing one of the biggest names of his generation say plainly that it “was taking over” — and then actually do something about it — is the kind of honesty that can reach somebody who’s still sipping. Seven months down. Keep going.
