Any thoughts on him? Many people I've talked to seem to lump him in with Lil Yachty and Desiigner, but I think he's leagues better than Yachty—who's interesting in his own right, though untalented musically—and much less of a Future-clone than Desiigner. Uzi has gotten a lot of attention recently for his grating guest verse on "Bad and Boujee" (does anyone like it?), but I think it's not representative of his sound. He's the only "Soundcloud rapper" who has put together a cohesive full-length that I've liked front-to-back.
I haven't dug his new stuff as much—a couple tracks here and there—but his breakthrough mixtape, Luv is Rage, was one of my favorite full-lengths of 2015; it stayed in my car's disc changer for months. It calls to mind the spacey "Cloud Rap" sub genre that never fully took off in the late-00s/early-2010s. Favorite tracks include "Moist," "Ballin to the End," "Nuyork Nights at 21," and "Paradise."
― Handsome Bookor, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 15:14 (seven years ago) link
I get why people hate him. His delivery has the same drony, place-holder quality of Wiz Khalifa, even though he's much more open to mixing things up than Khalifa. I think he was even signed to Khalifa's label? If so that's about right.
And like Wiz he seems like one of those cult of personality acts that doesn't really have all that much personality. But I won't write him off. His eagerness could take him somewhere special. And I'm all in for this track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWImCCJG_JU
― Evan R, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 15:28 (seven years ago) link
hes p good, I don't really hear future at all w him but ymmv I guess
all of luv is rage 1.5 is solid
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 15:44 (seven years ago) link
i like his name
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 15:44 (seven years ago) link
The Wiz comparison seems apt, at least when it comes to his persona. Uzi is fairly hit or miss with me, I usually prefer him when he's working with an artist I like, like on "Woke Up Like This" by Playboi Carti or on "Too Much Sauce."
I'm a big fan of XO Tour Life 3 (or however he spells it), I think it's the best thing he's done yet.
― neva missa lost, wednesday nights on abc (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 16:35 (seven years ago) link
Good point, forgot about the Wiz connection. Unsurprisingly, Khalifa is his favorite artist, which normally would give me pause, if his second favorite artist wasn't... Marilyn Manson. I mean, how many rappers wear platinum grills because Manson did it in the 90s. Plus, he refers to himself as a rock star, not a rapper, and his shows are supposed to be wild. Like you said, he does seem more open to mixing stuff up, and the dude has some pretty disparate influences, so I bet if he focused on one project for a while—instead of going into the studio and releasing whatever he records—he could make something pretty good, or at least more interesting than anything Khalifa has ever done.
Khalifa's fame always confused me, but it makes more sense in retrospect. Kush and Orange Juice came out in 2010, when I was a freshman in high school, and my friends had it on heavy rotation for about a year. No coincidence that most of Khalifa's fans were young, high school/college aged kids. Khalifa represented a lifestyle that was very appealing to a certain type of teenager: smoke everyday, all the time. He preached smoking ground rules (i.e. smoke paper, not blunts; stuff like that) that were easy to repeat and make you seem like a veteran. He was also unique and cool—making the music itself less essential—and that explains why all my friends dropped Khalifa when Rolling Papers came out, because there is NOTHING cool about that record.
― Handsome Bookor, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 16:59 (seven years ago) link
Listening to The Perfect Luv Tape and I'm liking it much, much more than Vs. The World.
Seems weird that Uzi Vert is the act that's caused a lot of rap fans to draw generational lines in the sand. I've seen a few critics say something to the effect of "I'm just too old to get this," as if his appeal is some great mystery. He's just kind of a plucky, amicable dude who raps in pleasant trivialities.
Actually now that I type that out I'm getting a big Mac Miller vibe from him, too, which makes sense b/c Miller is another Khalifa disciple. I kind of see Uzi as widening Mac Miller's tent: He's got that same fundamental, "kids like this" college rap appeal, but he also makes overtures toward modernist, new Atlanta rap sounds. That's a recipe for explosive popularity
― Evan R, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 17:28 (seven years ago) link
Jesus Christ 🙄
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 18:52 (seven years ago) link
I refuse to let this be the Uzi Vert thread title
Uzi vert is first and foremost a chief keef disciple, he was doing philly fast rap styles until he discovered sosa, the evidence is everywhere:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5q7DyasMgw
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 18:54 (seven years ago) link
I think he's first and foremost a trend hopper
― Evan R, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 18:56 (seven years ago) link
Not saying he hasn't developed something like his own sound but the DNA of his shit is obvious. I guess from a marketing angle you could say his Bart Simpson truck decal persona is wiz Khalifa esque but musically flows Adlibs melodic approach are all Sosa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixDvq80wZps
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 18:56 (seven years ago) link
http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2016/02/lil-uzi-vert-admits-chief-keef-is-huge-influence-on-his-music/
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 18:57 (seven years ago) link
― Evan R, Wednesday, March 29, 2017 1:56 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Not really, most of his stuff is pretty musically consistent
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 18:58 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/thugtear/status/846106761799065601
― 龜, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 19:00 (seven years ago) link
He def has many songs that sound like Sosa cosplay. But he draws a ton from Atlanta (Migos flows and Metro Boomin production). And his latest single is Khalifa by numbers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TxcJ3Ud-To
I mean, the song is LITERALLY from a Fast & Furious movie soundtrack. Seems p clear whose footsteps dude is following in
― Evan R, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 19:06 (seven years ago) link
same sickly, mock-Stargate production too
― Evan R, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 19:08 (seven years ago) link
Fair. Never thought Future was an apt comparison myself, but heard a lot of people calling him a clone when he was first blowing up, between when Luv is Rage and Uzi vs. the World came out, though that was probably due to superficial qualities (Metro Boomin beats, the autotune, the frequent xanax/codeine references) and the fact that Future was ubiquitous then (not that he's keeping a low profile now).
― Handsome Bookor, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 19:20 (seven years ago) link
keef is the alpha and omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 19:35 (seven years ago) link
Cmon dude. He literally was for this generation the way Gucci was before that. I just posted a link to a video where uzi even admits it himself.
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 19:37 (seven years ago) link
Just cuz he's doing commercial sellout records means he went the path keef didn't. "Sounds like wiz Khalifa" more like "sounds like the Atlantic records a&r department"
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 19:40 (seven years ago) link
I don't remember him doing migos flows but obviously he has other influences and works with other producers (although he also works heavily with Dp beats who made his name producing beats in Keef's mansion)
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 19:41 (seven years ago) link
"Sounds like wiz Khalifa" more like "sounds like the Atlantic records a&r department"
That is entirely what I meant by that statement.
Again, not denying that the guy listens to (and sometimes bites) Keef, or that Keef is hugely important (tho you are the only critic I know who keeps insisting he's this generation's Big Bang). I just think his Keef leanings have little to do with why he's so popular. I guess I don't have great insight into the mind of the average Uzi Vert fan, but I think most people just like the dude because of his pluckiness, and that is not a quality he picked up from Keef.
― Evan R, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 19:59 (seven years ago) link
His entire sonic toolkit is his--flows, melodic approach, Adlibs, etc
I agree that he does things keef doesn't & im not trying to take away from the idea that he's worth listening to. But I do think that he was able to capitalize on the space that opened up when Keef's "bang2" style melodic raps went underground
I know that other critics haven't really come around on this but there was a time when that was true of gucci also
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 20:06 (seven years ago) link
keef is patient. keef is kind. keef does not envy. keef does not boast.
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 20:15 (seven years ago) link
i do wish ilx wd it admit it was more invested in telling me i was wrong than it was taking the actual temperature of what was going on over the last 5 years
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 20:18 (seven years ago) link
I know some of this is in the Keef thread, but I would be legit interested in reading a big-picture piece about Keef's influence. I follow his tapes from time to time and agree they tend to be way underrated. But to me he always seemed less like a Gucci-level pioneer and more like a Soulja Boy figure (no disrespect intended), a figure who had his moment in the limelight then retreated back underground and cultivated a much bigger cult following than most people realize.
― Evan R, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 20:21 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/MustiM17/status/845814776924164096
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― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, March 29, 2017 3:18 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
deej you know very well i'm more invested in dumb jokes than the actual temperature of what's going on in hip hop the last five years
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 20:29 (seven years ago) link
How is Soulja boy figure not at some level disrespectful? Lol
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 20:36 (seven years ago) link
Soulja's influence was one dimensional Sosa's was a paradigm shift that changed the way rap sounded & created the world rappers exist in today, he was the bridge between the SoundCloud underground & the streets at a time when most artists were one or the other. And few rappers have negotiated that line since...famous dex comes to mind.
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 20:38 (seven years ago) link
anyway no need to get into this here, uzi vert has some cool songs.
i think its weird he got a rep for being hip-hop pop punk when most of his melodies don't actually stick with you, like "do what i want" felt like an almost-not quite hit
his biggest record are much more subtle: "you was right" & now "xo tour lif3" are both relatively low key and work bc of small hooks that feel finessed rather than bludgeoning.
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 20:51 (seven years ago) link
i don't think hip hop punk pop was about his melodies as much as about the tone of his vocals, the way he whines
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 29 March 2017 20:52 (seven years ago) link
the "rock star" thing seems to be largely like he dresses goofy and it's a good line to spout in an interview but unless i've missed something it doesn't seem to have any actual basis in his music
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 20:53 (seven years ago) link
to me i always read uzi vert as like a fairly boring rip off of like swaggy ATL rap... not future or anything like that but yung LA, j futuristic, fabo... but with cool of the moment branding that positioned him in an asap rocky-esque fashionplate context
he does have some songs that i like -- you was right and xo tour life are both very good if not close to being the same song, do what i want was fun too -- but i still can't imagine listening to a full album of his really, don't think there's really enough there
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 29 March 2017 20:55 (seven years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, March 29, 2017 3:52 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah he has kind of a sneer, i think its also about owning his petulance as a kind of branding thing, hes like calvin peeing on a chevy logo mudflap
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 20:56 (seven years ago) link
yeah def -- it's almost all branding
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 29 March 2017 20:58 (seven years ago) link
hes def in the swaggy atl rap lineage but again via keef ... i mean visually thats his whole thing too, the baby dreads
i don't think you can really easily get past the way his style changed dramatically post-love sosa "senor guapo"
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 20:58 (seven years ago) link
real news right now is how playboi carti f/ uzi vert jam is about to be huge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAAl3OPkaKk
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 30 March 2017 00:10 (seven years ago) link
Just popping in to note that the overshadowing influence on XO tour lif3 is thuggr, obvs.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 30 March 2017 11:18 (seven years ago) link
real news right now is how playboi carti f/ uzi vert jam is about to be huge
For some reason, I only like Uzi solo, never when he has a guest or when he's giving a feature. "Queso" and "Yamborghini Dream" are lowlights of Luv is Rage for me (and I normally love Thugger); don't care for "Seven Million" off The Perfect LUV Tape either. His "Bad and Boujee" verse is trash. The only guest feature of his that I dig, that comes to mind, is "Carnage."
― Handsome Bookor, Thursday, 30 March 2017 12:34 (seven years ago) link
we rly gotta be more proactive in making threads for new rappers else get stuck with these 2001 ilx-style faux-incredulous thread titles like Are Migos The Thelonious Monk of Nu-Rap or this lmao. tried to make a cupcakke thread the other day but got poxyfule'd halp
i really like Lil Uzi but none of his releases so far are consistent and he has a lot of boring songs. but his best tracks are really good and i have high hopes for Luv Is Rage 2. Keef + Yung LA + Grunge/Pop-Punk affect is original enough for me
in hopes we don't spend the whole thread litigating Sosa's influence here are some Uzi songs i'm partial to
Money Mitch (prod. Zaytoven)love the wobbly bassline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAeLmXNHw90
Uzi (prod. Charlie Heat)older song that is no longer representative of his style but bangs regardlesshtts://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJUi0AWiL7g
Sideline Watching (prod. Zaytoven)good hook hold up hold up / let me catch my breath / let me cash these checks / flex on my ex / don't got no respect / break up in a text / pull up in a g / t3 fly off in a jet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIwU-nOueWw
Ronda (Winners) (prod. Metro Boomin)mostly like this one for the tropical beathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5S9iEnUJeU
Erase Your Social (prod. Don Cannon)this isn't such a good song but i have a thing for the micro-genre rap songs that are just opinions of social media platforms ('ain't got no snapchat homie/i think it's too personal/that's what i got twitter for/instagram I'll bag ya hoe')https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxL2au41cnk
Money Longer (prod. Don Cannon)prob too obvious to mention but for those unconvinced of the grunge/pop punk influence the way he says "nowadays" in the hook is incontrovertiblehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eoSanFCU-M
Trunk Got Birdies (prod. Charlie Heat)another song in the older style of 'Uzi'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atUerTjkoIk
Ps and Qs (prod. Don Cannon)the vocal harmony in the 'oooh, sing it, he ain't got no money' part of the hook is beautiful. the accordian sample is p funny but workshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0fFzqX_Xgo
Queso feat. Wiz Khalifa (prod. TM88)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGOlA87BcRA
Belly (prod. DJ Plugg & Bobby Kritikal)this beat is like some ungodly mix of looney tunes sfx and musique concrète, i love ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMzOAKvmaLY
Wit My Crew x 1987 (prod. FKI)love the beat on this, first half is cooler but the backing vocal + guitar sample that enters during the 'it is not nooormaaal' part of the hook of 1987 gives me chillshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy-UwSofpwg
obvs a major part of his appeal is just that his tapes are laced with the finest Atlanta production and if someone dismissed him as a workable vessle for metro boomin & co i wouldn't take offence. but imo there's something there. also his fashion and persona are hilarious and great and totally add to his appeal for me ymmv
btw what is/was the 'soundcloud underground'? like what rappers or scenes are you talking about when u say that deej?
― flopson, Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:03 (seven years ago) link
(tho you are the only critic I know who keeps insisting he's this generation's Big Bang)
would also like to read a longer defence of this (totally open to it just curious what the evidence is and i don't pay close-enough attention. certainly timeline-wise Finally Rich is at the same distance in the rear-view mirror as all the classic gucci tapes were in the Sunz of Mane era)
― flopson, Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:08 (seven years ago) link
He does always manage to get a different kind of beat out of Metro and Zaytoven
― neva missa lost, wednesday nights on abc (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:08 (seven years ago) link
but that SideLine Watching song is a straight Migos rip
― neva missa lost, wednesday nights on abc (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link
hes like calvin peeing on a chevy logo mudflap
lmao, perfect
― flopson, Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:10 (seven years ago) link
ya lol @ his migos flow on 'Sideline Watching'
― flopson, Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:11 (seven years ago) link
Tropical "Ronda (Winners)" is one of my favorite Metro Boomin beats.
― Handsome Bookor, Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:33 (seven years ago) link
1 that hasnt been mentioned -i really like 'enemies' off luv is rage
otherwise flopsons drop & commentary is otm
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:36 (seven years ago) link
Some of the other hard songs on Luv is Rage—like "All my Chains" and "Safe House"—are also great
― Handsome Bookor, Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:39 (seven years ago) link
yeah they were tumblr, and obv there's no sonic connection to the soundcloud types we're talking about, but in terms of turning cultish and outsidery music into something sustainable and viable, but also uncompromised, i think they're important
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:10 (seven years ago) link
also asap rocky, insofar as he showed how powerful being a fashionplate could be, and you see that in playboi carti and of course uzi vert
that tyler and rocky went on a big tour together last year is instructive here, there's a big crossover i would imagine w/ uzi vert's fanbsae
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:12 (seven years ago) link
Carti still has some affiliation with A$AP Mob. I like the Rocky/Uzi connection, as they're two Northeasterners obsessed with a) image and b) southern sounds
― neva missa lost, wednesday nights on abc (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:16 (seven years ago) link
You misunderstand me--odd future did not cross over in the way yachty or uzi vert have.
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:21 (seven years ago) link
no of course not, but tyler has put every album of his in the billboard top 5, and earl had one too
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 30 March 2017 23:53 (seven years ago) link
altho actually "yonkers" would have been a big crossover record if streaming was in the charts formula then so i don't buy that assertion exactly
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 30 March 2017 23:56 (seven years ago) link
ehh i don't think it was a 'big crossover record' it went viral but not in the huge way 'gucci gucci' did ... like i remember comparing those two at one point when kreayshawn was at 30 mil and earl stalled out at like 3 mil like a year after it came out. that stuff was always super underground & im not convinced seeing it retconned into the uber-viral keef/kreay level
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 31 March 2017 00:53 (seven years ago) link
anyway i agree that odd future have had some influence esp in creating a touring/buzz cycle lane for rappers that exists outside of the streets/clubs/etc.
my point was more that keef was the focal point of where those worlds overlapped & was as influential w/ the underground as w/ the more "mainstream" esque dudes ... soundcloud rapper party i was at this weekend i heard 'faneto' but zero future or migos records, u see what i mean
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 31 March 2017 00:56 (seven years ago) link
push me to the edge
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41caDQc%2BEXL._SX376_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 6 April 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
That'll go well with Uzi's new parenting book "I Don't Really Care if You Cry"
― neva missa lost, wednesday nights on abc (voodoo chili), Thursday, 6 April 2017 15:53 (seven years ago) link
this song is so good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgmvg-zzctI
― flappy bird, Friday, 5 May 2017 22:28 (seven years ago) link
Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40) at 7:53 30 Mar 17ehh i don't think it was a 'big crossover record' it went viral but not in the huge way 'gucci gucci' did ... like i remember comparing those two at one point when kreayshawn was at 30 mil and earl stalled out at like 3 mil like a year after it came out. that stuff was always super underground & im not convinced seeing it retconned into the uber-viral keef/kreay leveloddfuture still has a fanbase and I don't get the sense that anyone cares about kreayshawn anymore
― I got da Midas touch as you fucking were LG x (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 5 May 2017 22:33 (seven years ago) link
what's your point? I was arguing with jordan over whether or not odd future would have been huge streaming successes, not whether or not a one hit wonder could have a long term career doing the festival circuit
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 5 May 2017 23:04 (seven years ago) link
god this thread title is stupid
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 5 May 2017 23:05 (seven years ago) link
And if y'all was wondering why I say "Aye" after everything now, It's because my uncle keef used to say it B4 and after everything! R.I.P— Glory Boy (@ChiefKeef) February 16, 2014
I was arguing with jordan over whether or not odd future would have been huge streaming successes
just for the record all i said was that tyler the creator's "yonkers" would have been a billboard hit if streaming was around then. it has 88 million youtube views, which is 30 million more than gucci gucci. i don't think it's really an arguable point. i remember hearing both of those beats on the radio at the time like when radio hosts would intro or outro a block of songs, but there wasn't quite an outside mechanism at the time to get the actual songs on the radio/into the greater consciousness
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 6 May 2017 09:18 (seven years ago) link
Yeah but a lot of that is retroactive, Television or whatever marginal cbgbs band has lots of views now too but it doesn't mean those songs were hits either, those guys spent the next five years playing festivals of course their legend grew in that time
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 6 May 2017 17:30 (seven years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/467245/21-under-21-tyler-the-creator-2011
25 million views for Yonkers in Sept. 2011 (7 months after its release)
― passionate plant-based athlete (voodoo chili), Saturday, 6 May 2017 17:54 (seven years ago) link
So more than half a year of blanket press = half the views of Gucci Gucci, a gold selling single that went into the hot 100 without streams counting
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 6 May 2017 20:06 (seven years ago) link
Right but the argument was whether Yonkers would have been a Hot 100 hit if streams counted and it's hard to say that it wouldn't have been, especially since it spent a lot of time on the bubbling under and heatseekers charts (whatever that means) without factoring in streams.
I agree that Odd Future was not as popular as the Yachty/Uzi crew, but rap in general is a lot more popular now than it was in 2011. Look at the numbers that XXXtentacion is doing these days--if he comes out in 2011, he's prob relegated to cult status instead of placing a song on the Hot 100 for weeks.
― passionate plant-based athlete (voodoo chili), Saturday, 6 May 2017 21:51 (seven years ago) link
i agree w that, its kind of apples & oranges bc obviously OF is a product of their time. i do think that a full court blog press meant more then
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 6 May 2017 22:23 (seven years ago) link
Xxxsensation sucks...., right?
― flopson, Sunday, 7 May 2017 02:41 (seven years ago) link
(afraid to ask post-Lil Peep)
i dont really identify w it but all signs point to him being one of the biggest new stars of the year & having a strong enough personality to hang a wide range of sounds on a single 'aesthetic'—I think he's gonna end up being influential if being a bad dude cant derail his career (though I don't think it will cuz capitalism)
This song was hard to deny for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrDxS8yG8OE
I don't really buy into him personally but i wouldn't bet against him
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 12 May 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
Diplo working with him ... .LOLhttps://soundcloud.com/jahseh-onfroy/looking-for-a-star-cant-get-you-out-my-head-prod-diplo
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 12 May 2017 19:31 (six years ago) link
( i think that song sucks because Diplo sucks but I guess it is more evidence of xxx's range )
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 12 May 2017 19:32 (six years ago) link
yes this song is indeed very bad
― meekseeks mill (voodoo chili), Friday, 12 May 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link
wub wub wub wub
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 12 May 2017 19:49 (six years ago) link
Huh that Slipknot song is not what I thought he sounded like, that track sound like a Black Moon song
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 May 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
i understand xxx's appeal but i think i prefer guys like wifisfuneral and ski mask the slump god, his fellow south florida scensters who have that xxx-esque dark, violent, death-obsessed aesthetic with some actual bars and without the heinous crimes
― meekseeks mill (voodoo chili), Friday, 12 May 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, May 12, 2017 3:01 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"not what i thought he sounded like" is like his whole release strategy
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 12 May 2017 20:05 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww4EiZNCq7k
I'll take your word for it, I'd only heard that can't keep my dick in my pants song the mom listened to first, which has that really clipping in the red thing
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 12 May 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh55mUvv788
I mean it's the reason ppl like him
Gamergirl Aria1 day agowaitwaitwaitwaitwaitwait. You're telling me this is the dude that screamed, "can't keep my dick in my pants"?
At first I thought he was gonna be some trashy ass rapper that rapped about the same shit all the time. But damn, this is actually good.Reply 245
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, 21 May 2017 03:10 (six years ago) link
lol what does this sound like to you
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, 21 May 2017 03:11 (six years ago) link
― meekseeks mill (voodoo chili), Friday, May 12, 2017 3:01 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
both those guys are boring to me
So FM radio censors "dead" and "die" in XO Tour Life, what the shit is this?
― black covfefe in bed (voodoo chili), Monday, 19 June 2017 15:16 (six years ago) link
At least there's an FM radio station that actually plays Uzi wherever you live. So many of them in Vancouver wouldn't touch hip hop that isn't drake with a ten foot poll
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 19 June 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
cancon
― mh, Tuesday, 20 June 2017 00:22 (six years ago) link
so nobody cares about eternal atake? am i missing the discussion somewhere else? enjoyed first listen a lot, a lot to take in tho
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link
There’s another thread about it, it rules imo
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Saturday, 14 March 2020 08:09 (four years ago) link
this song was always crying out for an uzi verse and he annihilated it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5FdrOx2aZk
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Saturday, 19 December 2020 20:52 (three years ago) link
it's funny that in a year where he made like 22 songs with future, uzi answered the thread's question with a very definitive "yes"
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Saturday, 19 December 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
i really don't want uzi to die because of this stupid diamond in his head
Lil Uzi Vert's $24 million brain diamond had us wondering https://t.co/zUAWdYIIfm— GQ Magazine (@GQMagazine) February 4, 2021
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Thursday, 4 February 2021 22:57 (three years ago) link
that grosses me out
― alpine static, Thursday, 4 February 2021 23:31 (three years ago) link
ehhh yeah that really gives me the willies
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 February 2021 23:32 (three years ago) link
dermal implants are fucking weird in general imo but you do you.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 February 2021 00:48 (three years ago) link
Getting Diablo vibes.
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 February 2021 03:00 (three years ago) link
I have a phobia/aversion to jewelry and that is so hard for me to look at
― Dusty Benelux (jim in vancouver), Friday, 5 February 2021 03:09 (three years ago) link
i have to say "just wanna rock" is prob the 'weirdest' song that i've heard semi-regularly on the radio in recent memory
― dyl, Friday, 17 February 2023 04:26 (one year ago) link