“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.
Since the 2016 release of his debut single “Money Longer,” Uzi has been racing towards a rarefied level of play that few artists ever get to, one in which everything they touch turns to gold and any idiosyncratic style — in this case, Uzi’s weirdo fusion of rap, pop, and emo — captures the zeitgeist.
With this year’s rapid-fire release of the Luv Is Rage 2 follow-ups Eternal Atake and LUV Vs. The World 2, Uzi finally reached that level, unleashing a 32-track double album that delivers on all the promise of his early work.
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