Lil Ui Vert confirms Don Canon’s comments that he recorded his upcoming album, The Pink Tape, while he was sober. Uzi recently talked to TMZ where he revealed that being sober has helped him put more pure content onto the forthcoming project.
“I thought that my creative process wasn’t gonna be the same because I wasn’t on drugs no more,” Uzi said about the effect of his sobriety on his creative process before adding that it helped him “think more clearly.”
He also urged other artist to embrace sobriety since “It will change your life. And you’ll look better.”
Uzi is closing in on the release date of his next project
Lil Uzi Vert continues to hype up his upcoming project, The Pink Tape. While recently speaking to a TMZ reporter, Uzi was asked when the tape will arrive, before he replied, “two more months.” He also confirmed that the controversial “Satan” song that he played at his Rolling Loud performance will appear on the project.
Lil Uzi Vert claims Pink Tape will drop in "probably like 2 months" 👀🛸https://t.co/LB8YxAZmTJ
Lil Uzi Vert raised some eyebrows during his Rolling Loud performance earlier this month when he teased a thrilling record where he can be heard rapping in part: “I make a city girl believe in Satan.” The Philly native recently ran into TMZ journalists who asked him about the Satan line.
“Not actually Satan, but just basically… I make a girl do whatever I say so,” Uzi expounded. “[JT] really didn’t think too much of it. She was there when she heard me make the song. She know what I really mean.”
Lil Uzi Vert said PINK TAPE releases in like 2 months 👀, confirms “City Girl ( Satan) song is on it & also speaks on the controversy of talking about “Satan” in their new song 👹 pic.twitter.com/53wKuTkjds
— uziawge 👽 – Lil Uzi Vert fanpage (@uziawge) March 13, 2023
He continued, “I really don’t even pay attention to them even saying that because I just say whatever I want in my songs. It’s just, like, my freedom of speech. I come from a real religious household… I don’t mean to offend people, but, you know, if they don’t like it, they have the option to turn it off.”
He also revealed that the song will appear on his upcoming project, The Pink Tape.
Uzi shouts out Carti in a song he played at Rolling Loud
Lil Uzi Vert revealed the state of his relationship with Payboi Carti while performing an unreleased song during his set at Rolling Loud California 2023 over the weekend. “Shout out to Carti, we don’t talk hardly, but that’s where my heart be,” Uzi rapped on the song.
The track is expected to appear on the Philly rapper’s next mixtape, The Pink Tape. Uzi has been teasing the project since 2021. It will follow up his collab tape with Future, Pluto x Baby Pluto, as well as his solo album, Eternal Atake.
Breakout rapper Yeat hints at a new project to drop somewhere in February 2023. The rapper shared an Instagram story post with the caption “2/?/2023.” Fans are assuming that the rapper is preparing to unleash Afterlyfe, a project that follows up his 2022 EP Lyfe.
Lyfe was released in September as Yeat’s sixth extended play via Geffen Records, Field Trip and Twizzy Rich, with a sole feature from Lil Uzi Vert.
The mini-project opened at No. 10 on Billboard 200 with 30K equivalent album units earned in the first week. It garnered 40.1M on-demand streams in that week.
ASAP Bari reveals he’s the one who introduced Playboi Carti to Lil Uzi Vert. During a recent interview with Our Generation Music, the VLONE boss recalled how him and Uzi had a habit of playing new music, leading to one day the former playing Carti’s music and the latter liked it. Bari the video-called Carti and the rest became history.
“Uzi had the passion of like listening to new music. That’s what we would do with each other,” Bari told host Hakeem. “We would meet up with each other, ‘ayo play the new Young Thug, play the new Pee Wee Longway,’ so I came up with Carti like ‘yo, you fuck with this?’ And he’s like ‘hell yeah!’ By then me and Carti got cool so I facetimed Carti like ‘this my nigga Uzi’ and then, there you go.”
Lil Uzi Vert’s single “Just Wanna Rock” has now sold over 1M units across the U.S., making it eligible for platinum certification from RIAA. The record was released just in October and is expected to feature on Uzi’s upcoming project, The Pink Tape.
Produced by MCvertt and Synthetic, the track captures Uzi experimenting with a Jersey Club beat. Before it was released on DSPs, a snippet of the record went viral, especially on TilTok where it triggered over 150K videos.
.@LILUZIVERT's "Just Wanna Rock" has now sold over 1 million units in the US.
Chief Keef inspired some of today’s biggest hip-hop acts
At just 27, Chief Keef is already one of the most influential rappers of our generation. On Saturday (December 17), Spotify’s Rap Caviar listed on Instagram several artists who’ve publicly expressed their admiration for Sosa including Lil Uzi Vert, Playboi Carti, NBA Youngboy, Lil Yachty, Doja Cat, Key Glock, GloRilla, Coi Leray, and singer Billie Eilish. Keef left a comment on the post appreciating them for acknowledging his impact on the culture by simply writing, “Salute all the ones who keep it really real tho.”
According to Rap Caviar, Uzi said the following of Keef in an interview with Sway In The Morning in 2016: “I’m not going to lie: I listen to a lot of Sosa. Even in my early days of rapping… everything I listened to, you can hear the influence in my music.”
“I ain’t never had a role model, watched Chief Keef growing up,” Youngboy told The Fader in 2017.
Speaking to L.A. Lakers in 2018, Playboi Carti explained, “Growing up when I seen the drill and that [drill] sound hit me it was just like crazy. It’s kinda hard to explain… They (300) really held me down. I talk to Sosa all the time.”
Multi-award-wining singer Billie Eilish also revealed her fandom for the Chicago-born rapper to the British Vogue in 2021. “I feel empowered when I sing H.E.R. songs, or like, Chief Keef to be honest, I don’t even know if they have Chief Keef at karaoke bars, but I would request some Chief Keef.”
You can peep what other artists have had to say about Chief Keef below.
