Lil Uzi Vert: Last News

Lil Uzi Vert has shed new light on his infamous forehead diamond piercing, claiming his insurance company tried to “cut him off” over it.Speaking on Twitch streamer Trainwreck’s Scuffed podcast on December 10, the rapper revealed that his insurance company tried to cut him off after he had a pink diamond, worth $24million (£17.6million), pierced into his forehead in February.“My insurance tried to cut me off, they were like, ‘This kid’s trying to kill himself,’” he said.

Lil Uzi Vert has spoken about collaborating with the late XXXTentacion.In a fan Q&A hosted on Adin Ross’ livestream recently, the rapper said that XXX once reached out to him from behind bars but a release never materialised.“He called me one time when he was incarcerated a long time ago. I was going on stage, I was on tour with The Weeknd and he actually rapped a song for me that he never laid and it was actually really good,” Vert told fans.But after XXX died during an armed robbery in 2018, Vert admitted that he felt “really weird” about working on a posthumous track.“Yes, I’d love to do a song with him but I’m really weird on stuff like that.

Lil Uzi Vert has delivered one of his first solo songs of the year just two days out from Halloween, aptly titled ‘Demon High’.Following more of a pop route than most of his recent work, ‘Demon High’ marks Uzi’s first solo release since he appeared on the soundtrack for Space Jam: A New Legacy. Prior to that, he dropped ‘Lil Uzi Vert vs.

Philly titans Meek Mill and Lil Uzi Vert took to the stage on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon earlier this evening for a strange but wonderful performance of their new song “Blue Notes 2”, a collaboration taken from Meek Mill’s forthcoming album Expensive Pain. “Chaotic” because, well, Uzi spent much of the performance lying onstage, grinning and barely leaning up to smile at the audience as the song was being introduced.

Rapper Lil Uzi Vert has revealed fans ripped off the $24 million pink diamond he had implanted on his forehead during a recent performance at Rolling Loud.The 26-year-old said the audience tore the diamond, which he spent four years making payments on, after he leaped into the crowd during his set back in July.'I had a show at Rolling Loud and I jumped into the crowd and they kind of ripped it out,' the rapper told TMZ while attending the 18th anniversary of Jay-Z's 40/40 club in August.

Lil Uzi Vert had his £17.6million ($24million) diamond torn from his forehead after jumping into the crowd at Miami’s Rolling Loud Festival in July.When he was recently spotted by a TMZ cameraman without his diamond, the rapper explained what happened: “I had a show at Rolling Loud and I jumped into the crowd and they kind of ripped it out.”Uzi confirmed he still had the diamond in his possession, though it is unclear if he plans to have it reattached.Uzi first had the diamond pierced into his forehead back in February, saying he had been paying off the $24million gem since 2017.Despite a representative for jeweller Elliott Eliantte claiming that the diamond was as “safe as any other piercing”, Uzi claimed in June that the rock was causing

Lil Uzi Vert has reimplanted his $24million diamond back into his head after removing it last month.The rapper unveiled the new look in February and said that the pink rock is “10, almost 11 carats”, and also the most expensive purchase he has ever made.Despite a representative for jeweller Elliott Eliantte claiming that the diamond was as “safe as any other piercing”, Uzi claimed last month that the rock was causing him bleeding, and that he would need to have it removed.Over the weekend, ahead of his performance at Rolling Loud Miami, the rapper showed off a new tongue tattoo in a video that also showed he had put the pink diamond back in his forehead.In the clip, Uzi labels himself a “Rager” as he sticks out his tongue to reveal the

Trippie Redd has released a synth-driven new single titled ‘Holy Smokes’, featuring guest vocals from Lil Uzi Vert.The track follows ‘Miss The Rage’ – a collaboration with Playboi Carti that Redd dropped back in May – as the second single from Redd’s anticipated fourth album ‘Trip At Knight’, which is due for release later in 2021.Listen to the track below:In a recent interview with XXL, Redd praised Uzi as an inspiration on his own musicality. “Listening to Uzi’s shit back in 2015-16, that shit was different,” he told the publication.“And [Playboi] Carti, at that time.

Lil Uzi Vert's ex-girlfriend Brittany Byrd filed a police report on Friday afternoon alleging that Uzi "put a gun to her stomach and then struck her". Per TMZ, Byrd was dining with rapper SAINt JHN at West Hollywood's Dialog Cafe around noon when Uzi arrived and attempted to start an altercation with JHN; when Uzi flashed the handle of his gun, bystanders began to flee the scene.

Space Jam: A New Legacy has been revealed.Lil Wayne, Chance the Rapper, John Legend, Salt-N-Pepa, Leon Bridges, Brockhampton, Lil Uzi Vert and Big Freedia are among the all-star cast of musicians joining the musical additions on the sequel to the 1996 animated classic film.SAINt JHN and SZA unveiled their new song ‘Just For Me’, also written for the film, on Friday (June 11). Their collab follows Lil Baby and Kirk Franklin’s contribution ‘We Win’, which arrived at the end of last month.Watch the official unveiling of the artists featured on Space Jam: A New Legacy, starring LeBron James, below.Space Jam: A New Legacy will arrive in UK and US cinemas – and via HBO Max – on July 16.

On Friday (June 11) producer and rapper Pi’erre Bourne will release his latest solo album, The Life of Pi’erre 5. In the run up to the album's arrival, Bourne has dropped "Sossboy 2" featuring Lil Uzi Vert.

Lil Uzi Vert has removed the $24 million diamond that had been implanted in his forehead, months after unveiling the bizarre accessory.The rapper unveiled the new look in February and said that the pink rock is “10, almost 11 carats”, while also the most expensive purchase he has ever made.He then explained that the only reason the $24million (£17.6million) accessory was put in his forehead was that he couldn’t trust himself not to lose it.Despite a representative for jeweller Elliott Eliantte claiming that the diamond was as “safe as any other piercing”, Lil Uzi Vert subsequently claimed that the rock was causing him bleeding, and that he would need to have it removed.A post shared by Marni Life( NO STYLIST)1600 (@liluzivert)Over the

One of the biggest stories in hip-hop of 2021 so far has been Lil Uzi Vert's pink diamond forehead piercing. The stone, which cost a reported $24 million, set the internet on fire when Uzi revealed it last week, with fans and critics alike flooding the rapper with questions.

Lil Uzi Vert (née Symere Bysil Woods) has the internet buzzing over his new “piercing.” — Though, many fans (including us) were unaware of the fact that it’s possible to pierce your forehead. Yet, the 26-year-old rapper managed to accomplish the latter and showed off his large pink diamond piercing on social media on Tuesday night.

Not even a week after sharing their collaborative mixtape Pluto x Baby Pluto, Future and Lil Uzi Vert are back with another album-length surprise: a deluxe edition of the tape featuring six new songs. The drop also includes the previously released singles "Patek" and "Over Your Head," which cap off the end of the deluxe edition.

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Philly rapper Lil Uzi Vert is famously a big Paramore fan, previously calling lead singer Hayley Williams his biggest songwriting inspiration. In an interview with Beats 1’s Zane Lowe, Williams revealed she actually turned down a request from him to collaborate while going through a period of personal turmoil.

"I remember too Uzi asking me to do some stuff with him."

Lil Uzi Vert would have had an easy time staying at No. 1 on the Rolling Stone albums chart for a second week, regardless. But the fact that he released a deluxe version of his album just one week after the standard edition ensured that he really racked up big numbers.

Lil Uzi Vert dominates both the album and singles charts this week, with a blockbuster No. 1 debut for his “Eternal Atake” collection — and individual cuts from that album accounting for 14 of the top 20 song slots.

“Imagine, bro,” Lil Uzi Vert said in his 2017 FADER cover story. “I could have been an astronaut.” Three-odd years later, and it’s safe to say rap’s prime 25-year-old subversive has found himself floating in space.