"66" is a song by American rapper

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featuring fellow American rapper

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. It was released as the last track on Lil Yachty's second studio album ''

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''. The song peaked at number 73 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100.

Background

The track is the first collaboration between Lil Yachty and Trippie Redd.

Music video

The music video for the track was released on August 16, 2018, and was directed by Drew Kirsch, Mihailo Andic, and Lil Yachty himself. Trace William Cowen of ''

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'' called the video "ominous".

Critical reception

The track received generally positive reviews. Joshua Minsoo Kim of ''

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'' called the track a highlight off of ''

'', stating it was mostly great "because of Trippie Redd’s melodic sensibility". Sam Moore of ''

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'' called the track "a welcome source of relief from the overbearing raps" on the album, saying that the beat was "the kind of cloud-rap instrumental

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circa-2013 would’ve felt comfortable throwing his bucket hat on".

Commercial performance

In less than a week, the song had reached over five million streams on Spotify, twice the amount of streams the track "Baby Daddy" featuring

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and

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had. The song debuted and peaked at number 73 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, and at number 36 on the

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chart.

Charts

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References

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