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Guess he had to find something to do with the free time. After the massive success of 2017’s Luv Is Rage 2, Uzi announced that he’d deleted all works-in-progress and was retiring, only to surface in 2020 with the almost mythically anticipated Eternal Atake, following the album about a week later with a Deluxe Edition that doubled its length. Like Thug, Uzi is a distinctive rapper (the stage name was given, not taken), but the key to his sound is melody, mixing post-trap rumble with the candied hooks of pop-punk and neon surfaces of EDM for a style that splits the starkness of modern hip-hop into prismatic color. But definitely not a rapper in the traditional sense.īorn Symere Woods in North Philadelphia in 1994, Uzi first started rapping to one-up a classmate, quickly making the leap to national relevance through features with Young Thug and Migos while building a tight-knit collective of producers and collaborators, known as Working on Dying, at home. That he could turn a line as bleak as “Push me to the edge/All my friends are dead” (“XO TOUR Llif3”) into a singalong only made him more vital-here was a guy feeling the pain and packaging it in style. Where previous generations of rappers leveraged influence through the boardroom (Jay Z: “I’m not a businessman/I’m a business, man”), Uzi represents a generation fluent in fashion and social media, not just a recording artist but a kind of creative director whose personality and sense of world-building telegraphs almost as loudly as the music. Lil Uzi Vert told us upfront, in his intro to Playboi Carti’s “wokeuplikethis*”: “I’m a rockstar.” The metaphor wasn’t about dominance so much as it was about flamboyance, for Uzi as a purse-carrying, post-Kanye MC raised on anime and Marilyn Manson, whose indifference toward hip-hop orthodoxy made him a punk to some and a hero to more.
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