In all facets of life, there’s a lot to be said for knowing your limitations. Don’t pick a fight against someone twice your size, don’t try to hit on the guy/girl who’s out of your league, don’t order the hottest buffalo sauce if you can’t handle it, etc.
Because sometimes if you don’t know know your limitations, you end up trying to dunk on a 10-foot hoops, falling embarrassingly short and being made fun of by thousands of people on the internet.
Just ask rapper Lil Yachty, an up-and-coming rapper from Atlanta.
He didn’t even come close! He might not have put that in on a nine-foot hoop!
Usually if you’re going up futilely like that, you realize it early on and don’t even bother with the dunking part (I know a little something about failing to dunk), but Lil Yachty instead tried to throw it down from underneath the hoop. At least he seemed to laugh about it afterward.
Part of Lil Yachty’s charm as an artist is his unpretentiousness, so maybe this missed dunk fits with the persona he’s trying to cultivate.
Or maybe he just really didn’t know his limitations.