Lil Uzi Vert - More Than Just a Future Disciple?

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)

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

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.

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

Xxxsensation sucks...., right?

(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

Diplo working with him ... .LOL
https://soundcloud.com/jahseh-onfroy/looking-for-a-star-cant-get-you-out-my-head-prod-diplo

( i think that song sucks because Diplo sucks but I guess it is more evidence of xxx's range )

yes this song is indeed very bad

wub wub wub wub

Huh that Slipknot song is not what I thought he sounded like, that track sound like a Black Moon song

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

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, 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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh55mUvv788

I mean it's the reason ppl like him

Gamergirl Aria1 day ago
waitwaitwaitwaitwaitwait. 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.
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lol what does this sound like to you

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, 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?

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

cancon

so nobody cares about eternal atake? am i missing the discussion somewhere else? enjoyed first listen a lot, a lot to take in tho

There’s another thread about it, it rules imo

this song was always crying out for an uzi verse and he annihilated it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5FdrOx2aZk

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"

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

that grosses me out

ehhh yeah that really gives me the willies

dermal implants are fucking weird in general imo but you do you.

Getting Diablo vibes.

I have a phobia/aversion to jewelry and that is so hard for me to look at

i have to say "just wanna rock" is prob the 'weirdest' song that i've heard semi-regularly on the radio in recent memory