Source: Thaddaeus McAdams / Getty Lil Yachty has been arrested and released. According to WSB-TV in Atlanta, the Atlanta rapper was arrested last week and charged with driving more than 150 mph down an Atlanta interstate. Lil Yachty, whose legal name is Miles McCollum, was pulled over Sept. 21 in downtown Atlanta after being observed by officers going high speeds in his white Ferrari. McCollum was charged with reckless driving and speeding before being sent to the Atlanta City jail, according to the Georgia State Police. Channel 2 Action News noted that the same location of the rapper’s recent arrest was also the same location that the rapper previously crashed a red Ferrari back in June. At that time, witnesses said his speed and the wet roads led to the crash that totaled his vehicl...
Source: RB/Bauer-Griffin / Getty Lil Yachty can count his blessings this morning after the young rapper got into a nasty wreck while driving in Atlanta on Monday (June 23). According to reports, Yachty, driving in rainy conditions on a local highway, spun out and totaled his Ferrari but thankfully he walked away relatively unscathed. Local outlet WSB-TV reports that Yachty, real name Miles McCollum, was driving on Interstate 75/85 northbound when he encountered slick roads from a rainstorm and lost control of his 2020 Ferrari 488, slamming into a median wall before skidding across seven lanes and hitting another. According to reports, Yachty, 22, only had some scrapes and bruises on his arms and didn’t recall anything before spinning out. Witnesses reported that Yachty was speeding just be...