The rollout for Lil Uzi Vert’s perpetually delayed Eternal Atake has had almost everything: a coffee-shop brawl, a short-lived retirement, beef with the living members of a suicide cult, a hashtag-turned-redemption-single (“Free Uzi”).
What it hasn’t had—until today—is a new album. Considering Uzi’s runaway popularity and promise, the delay seems unaccountable.
Ask Uzi and it’s the label’s fault; ask the label and it’s Uzi’s. It’s been hard to keep track of the back and forth, but now Eternal Atake is here.
Below is a timeline of the melodrama that took place in the lead-up to the album. January 12, 2018 A little less than five months after releasing Luv Is Rage 2, Lil Uzi Vert initiates a cold war with his label, the Atlantic imprint
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