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A course correction after the wild genre experimentation of last year’s Pink Tape, Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atake 2 isn’t so much an evolution of 2020’s Eternal Atake as it is a watered-down rehash of it. Gone are the personality, ambition, and world-building visions that defined those previous two albums, replaced with 16 tracks’ worth of disjointed flows, bland beats, and shaky vocal performances.

In theory, a sequel like this should be a cakewalk: a snappy collection of vaguely poppy, energetic crowd-pleasers with just enough drill influence to still qualify as rap. In other words, Uzi’s bread and butter. But the minimal legwork required to get there is sorely lacking here, and Eternal Atake 2 suffers from a serious lapse in quality control.

Say what you will about the lyrical drivel coming from Uzi’s mouth half the time—the low point being two different songs hinging on cringe-worthy homophones,...

Is Eternal Atake 2 a return to the essence of what we love about Lil Uzi Vert and “back to square one,” as the non-binary artist recently told Rs’ Jeff Ihaza? Or is it a retrenchment from the wilder impulses of their admirably experimental yet unevenly executed Pink Tape? The Philadelphia alien wants to replicate the universal acclaim that greeted Eternal Atake back in 2020, a moment when Gen Z and old heads alike finally recognized them as a generational talent. But old bugbears keep popping up, adding frisson to the “PerkySex...

Alexa PenaVega is speaking out about a new Lil Uzi Vert song that was just released on Friday (November 1).

The 36-year-old actress’ husband Carlos PenaVega‘s boy band Big Time Rush is featured on the track, “The Rush,” off of Uzi’s new album Eternal Atake 2, but Carlos was not involved whatsoever.

Alexa took to Twitter/X to update fans and share why he chose not to partake, and took issue with it being a “Big Time Rush” feature.

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“Hey friends. Wanted to hop on here to address something. We work super hard to protect our values and the things we believe in especially when it comes to creating content that is mostly family friendly or what one would consider ‘safe,’” she wrote. “Today a song was released that featured the Btr boys minus Carlos because it did not align with his values. While...

When I meet them at the Roc Nation offices in New York City, Lil Uzi Vert is wearing an all-white fit — a t-shirt from the cult Japanese label Skoloct, white jeans, and a white beanie with the word “Them” stitched in a gothic font. It’s two days before the release of their new album Eternal Atake 2, a sequel to their hotly anticipated album from 2020.

To hear Uzi tell it, this new album represents a return to form. Last year’s Pink Tape found the Philadelphia-born rapper, now 29, experimenting with a slew of new sounds,...

Chatting with the head of a prominent documentary-production company recently, I asked if hybrid filmmaking had reached its natural limit. Could it conceivably be pushed further? He posited these limitations might be behind a recent trend of documentarians pivoting to fiction: Kirsten Johnson is making a Susan Sontag biopic with Kristen Stewart; Frederick Wiseman made his first narrative feature A Couple after half a century spent in non-fiction; Roberto Minervini’s The Damned and Sandhya Suri’s Santosh both premiered at Cannes this past Spring; most recently, RaMell Ross adapted the Pulitzer-winning novel Nickel Boys. Documentarians are realizing that if fiction and non-fiction are both highly constructed, then why not work this construction openly, with the added perks of larger budgets and access to stars?

Joshua Oppenheimer joins that cohort with The End, a bunker-bound musical set at the end of the world. From the jump, The End embodies a more classical filmmaking mode.

Pills, porno, Pokemon cards – The Three P’s! Mysterious Ways reminds us there’s more to faith than avoiding these sins of the flesh in director Tyler Eaton’s comedic and demonic feature debut. Anchored by strong performances and an equally strong message, the film asks viewers to place faith in each other above all, even if one of us is a devoted Bigfoot truther.

Mysterious Ways follows religious siblings Denise (Alyssa Sabo) and her brother Charlie (Brandon Raman) as they attempt to pick up the pieces of their congregation after their parents’ deaths. Children of a pastor, the duo find themselves embarking on much different paths. Denise desperately clings to the church, immersing herself in everything from worship group sleepovers to teen graphic novels featuring Christ crusaders fighting Satanists with Uzi’s. On the flip side is Charlie, slowly becoming disillusioned with his life, planning to escape his situation...

The Terminator franchise is synonymous with the name of Arnold Schwarzenegger, after all, it was he who helped make the film series as iconic as it is today. Starring as the main protagonist, his chiseled body and vascular physique were the epitome of strength and resilience, making his role even more legendary. However, it wasn’t just Schwarzenegger who had to be at the top of his game while shooting the film.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Terminator in the film series The Terminator | Carolco Pictures

Robert Patrick, who starred as the formidable T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgement Day, underwent an equally intense and unique training regimen to prepare for his role.

Robert Patrick Was Trained by an Israeli Commando for Terminator 2: Judgement Day

Robert Patrick in a still from Terminator 2: Judgement Day | TriStar Pictures

While Arnold Schwarzenegger is known best for being the face of the Terminator...

Drake and Kendrick Lamar are two of the most popular and commended rappers in the music industry, and yet, they are also two of the most controversial ones. Thanks to their long-ongoing feud and rocky relationship that just doesn’t seem to want to repair at any cost, the two have been under the spotlight every now and then through their diss tracks for each other.

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However, with his most recent track, the Canadian rapper cum singer seems to have taken a bit too nasty dig at Lamar. This is because, in his recently released Family Matters, the 37 year-old singer seemingly implied that his rival and 36 year-old American rapper cum songwriter’s fiancée Whitney Alford allegedly had an affair with Lamar’s manager and creative partner, Dave Free.

Drake Hints at Wild Claims Against Kendrick Lamar in Family Matters

Although all of their previous diss tracks...

In a move as strategic for her as it is exciting for us, Flo Milli only gave hours notice that a remix of her first song to hit the Hot 100, “Never Lose Me,” would hit streaming with features from two of the biggest women in music – Sza and Cardi B. Though Sza and Flo have teased a remix since the top of the year, Cardi B came as a surprise (“Pop Up Guess Who B✰Tch,” Flo wrote on Instagram under a video of the two of them together, both...

Lil Uzi Vert is looking to change their inked-up look.

If you weren’t aware, the 28-year-old hip-hop artist has tons of tattoos from head to toe.

In a recent interview with LA Weekly, Uzi made a surprising revelation about how they want to manage their body art in the future.

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Upon being asked what his favorite tattoo is, Uzi replied, “None of them.”

They continued, “I’m trying to get them removed. All of them… I want to go corporate.”

In November, Uzi posted a selfie showing themself with makeup covering their facial tattoos.

It’s unclear if the “Just Wanna Rock” rapper will actually do away with all of their tattoos, given the long and often painful process of permanently removing ink.

Uzi‘s revelation is intriguing nonetheless!

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Nicki Minaj is keeping her Barbz fed. After releasing Pink Friday 2 on Friday, the rap star shared that there are more songs on the way from the record, teasing collaborations with 50 Cent, Keyshia Cole, and Monica.

“Next week #GagCity welcomes a new edition every day beginning Monday or Tuesday,” she wrote on X (formerly Twitter), referring to the AI-created world celebrating the album. “Every day until Friday, you’ll get an [additional] song that completes my fave body of work to date. 4 more songs.”

She continued, “Two of the names...

What language do teenagers speak? Parents, as always, seem to be at a loss. Last month, The New York Times published a helpful guide to the slang terms growing in popularity online. Words like “sigma” (a stoic guy), “gyat” (a nice butt), and “rizz,” (basically “charisma”) topped the list, and most of the words seemed to emerge from platforms like Twitch and TikTok — terms like “rizz,” which the Oxford English Dictionary named Word of the Year. “Rizz is a term that has boomed on social media,” Oxford Languages President Casper...

Lil Uzi Vert broke new stylistic ground with this year’s Pink Tape, a wildly over-the-top explosion of sounds that our review characterized as “galaxy-smashing rap-rock,” “superhero theme music,” and “samurai clashes set to Def Leppard shredding.” Headlining arenas is all part of the plan, and Rolling Stone was there when Uzi’s Pink Tape tour came to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Here are the best photos from the night...

Lil Uzi Vert took to Instagram Tuesday to dispute that they agreed to play Rolling Loud California in March 2024, just hours after the event had announced the rapper as the festival’s Sunday headliner.

“I never said I was doing rolling loud,” Uzi, who uses they/them pronouns, wrote in an Instagram story. “Don’t understand why my name is on here.”

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Lil Uzi Vert just launched his first tour in five years!

The 28-year-old rapper performed the first show on his Pink Tape Tour on Saturday (October 20) at The Armory in Minneapolis, Minn.

Uzi will be performing 19 shows on the tour and many of the dates are already sold out.

The Pink Tape Tour will then continue across the United States with stops in Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and more before wrapping up in Detroit at Little Caesars Arena on Sunday, December 3.

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**This set list is representative of the first show and might not be completely accurate for every show.

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6. Pop

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8. Money Longer

9. Do What I Want

10. Aye

11. Fire Alarm

12. The Way Life Goes

13. Sanguine Paradise

14. Neon Guts

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17. Spin Again

18. Crush Em

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Less than three months after Lil Uzi Vert dropped his new album The Pink Tape, the prolific rapper is back with a new single titled “NFL” that, despite the title and Uzi’s Eagles fandom, has nothing to do with football.

As revealed in the opening of the Be El Be-directed visual, “NFL” is short for “Never Fall in Luv.” (Luv itself is an acronym for Lil Uzi Vert). What follows is a barrage of images: Lil Uzi Vert performing onstage; the lizard-tongued rapper in front of an asteroid-destroyed car,...

Lil Uzi Vert was briefly and totally erroneously identified as the suspect in an alleged dog-napping case in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, Aug. 31.

On Facebook yesterday, the Wilkes-Barre Township Police Department shared a post about a pup pilfered from a local pet store. It included details about the case, a picture of the stolen dog (a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppy named Riku), the alleged suspect’s car, and the alleged suspect — only the last one was extremely incorrect.

The initial post with Lil Uzi Vert was up on the...

Lil Uzi Vert has scored the first No. 1 rap album on the Billboard 200 this year with Pink Tape, knocking out Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time after 15 nonconsecutive weeks atop the chart. Per Billboard, the Philly rapper’s latest effort moved 167,000 equivalent album units in the US for the week ending July 6th.

Pink Tape is the first rap album to hit No. 1 since Metro Boomin’s Heroes & Villains in December 2022. The 29-week gap between chart-topping rap albums is the longest since 1992 through 1993, when Ice Cube’s The Predator was followed by Cypress Hill’s Black Sunday 34 weeks later.

Uzi has now earned three No. 1 studio albums on the chart. Pink Tape was preceded by Luv Is Rage 2 in 2017 and Eternal Atake in 2020. You can catch them on a 17-city US tour this fall. Grab your tickets here.

Proving that Wallen’s 2021 use of the N-word didn’t hurt his career,...

Grammy-nominated artist Lil Uzi Vert announced their highly anticipated Pink Tape Tour headline tour. Produced by Live Nation, the 17-date tour kicks off on Saturday, October 21 in Minneapolis at The Armory, with stops in Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles and more before wrapping up on Wednesday, November 22 in Philadelphia at Wells Fargo Center. Tickets: Tickets will be available starting with the general on-sale beginning today at 2 Pm local time at ticketmaster.com. The tour marks the Philadelphia native’s first headlining tour since 2018, when they hit 32 cities as part of the “Endless Summer Tour.” The tour announcement comes on the heels of Uzi’s most ... Read more...

Lil Uzi Vert is taking their metalcore era on the road. On Friday, the rap star announced that they’ll be heading on their The Pink Tape Tour across the United States later this year.

The tour will start in Minneapolis on Oct. 21, before making its way to cities such as Boston, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, and New York City. Uzi will conclude the run in their native Philadelphia on Nov. 22.

Tickets for the tour are set to go on sale Friday at 2 p.m. local time. The new run...

Lil Uzi Vert has announced a 17-city US tour in support of their latest album, Pink Tape.

The trek kicks off on October 21st in Minneapolis ahead of stops in Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, and more. Uzi will wrap up the “Pink Tape Tour” with a hometown show in Philadelphia on November 22nd. See the rapper’s full touring schedule below.

The general on-sale begins today (July 7th) at 2:00 p.m. local time via Ticketmaster. Once tickets are on sale, you can also find them at StubHub, where orders are 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s FanProtect program.

The 26-track Pink Tape features Travis Scott, Nicki Minaj, and Don Toliver, as well as unexpected collaborations with Bring Me the Horizon and Babymetal. In addition to the hit single “Just Wanna Rock,” it contains a cover of System of a Down’s “Chop Suey!” and samples of Eiffel 65’s...

After a relatively dry year for rap music on the charts, it seems like the genre is back on track. This is largely thanks to the release of Lil Uzi Vert’s newest studio album, “Pink Tape.” The record is headed for a number-one debut on the Billboard 200, with projected album units between 200,000 and 250,000. Thus, Uzi is pretty much this year’s first hip-hop smash and continues to be one of the most innovative and popular rappers of the past 10 years. Could this success lead to their first Grammy win?

“Pink Tape” has a lot in its favor. First, as mentioned above, it’s pretty much the biggest rap album released in 2023, and second only to Drake and 21 Savage’s 2022 release “Her Loss” for the most first-week album units throughout the Grammy eligibility period. However, “Her Loss” had mediocre reviews, and most of its tracks faded relatively fast compared...

Lil Uzi Vert’s long-awaited album, Pink Tape, arrived last week and found the eclectic Mc in decidedly new terrain. With features by everyone from Nicki Minaj to New York electro-pop duo Snow Strippers, Pink Tape is as inventive and untethered by convention as Uzi’s forward-thinking fashion sense. As such, reactions to the record have so far been mixed, with traditional rap fans lamenting Uzi’s forays into unknown genre territory and others celebrating the musician’s daring left turns. Regardless of your feelings, it’s made for one...

Across the 26 tracks that comprise Pink Tape, Lil Uzi Vert raps, sings, squeals, screams, and even screeches their way through a little of every genre influence that’s helped define the Philadelphia rapper’s polychrome sound since 2017’s Luv Is Rage 2. The nearly 90-minute album spans heavy metal, energetic pop-punk (“Amped”), hyperpop (“X2”), candy-coated trap (“Days Come and Go” and “Died and Came Back”), and industrial witchcore (“Fire Alarm”).

There’s something of a skeletal framework by which Uzi has sequenced this sprawling opus, one where by the time we get to the hard Jersey Club banger “Just Wanna Rock,” it feels like a natural progression of the album’s wide-ranging vision rather than a leftfield grab for attention. There’s an almost gleefully breathless irreverence to the way Uzi picks up and immediately drops ideas, dipping in and out of different melodic pockets or styles at a moment’s notice.

Lil Uzi Vert is one of the most ambitious rappers of their generation, a true-blue astral traveler who sees the form’s traditions as a matrix to warp in unexpected ways. Their goal is the sort of mental and emotional liberation achievable only through absolute stimulation: the most colors, the biggest sounds, the hardest raps conceivable. Their first two LPs, 2017’s Luv Is Rage 2 and 2020’s Eternal Atake, showed remarkable progress in this aim. They pushed and pulled various strands of contemporary hip-hop — blown-out Soundcloud beats, cavernous psychedelia, flows from...

After years of abandoned release dates, Lil Uzi Vert’s new album Pink Tape has finally arrived.

The album spans 26 songs and includes collaborations with Travis Scott, Nicki Minaj, and Don Toliver. Also featured are metalcore band Bring Me the Horizon and J-pop metal group Babymetal. Plus, Lil Uzi Vert covers System of a Down’s “Chop Suey!” and samples Eiffel 65’s “Blue (Da Ba Dee)” on the Nicki Minaj collab “Endless Fashion.”

The album was preceded by a trailer directed by Gibson Hazard, which really acts as a mini action movie more than anything. The four-minute clip begins with an anime-version of Uzi, whose infamous $24 million pink diamond is ripped from their forehead by some sort of ancient samurai. From there, the video cuts to the real-life rapper, who travels across Japan to retain their ice. The short features heavy trap beats as well as pop punk instrumentals — as...

The estate of XXXTentacion marked the five-year anniversary of the rapper’s death Sunday with the official release of “I’m Not Human,” featuring Lil Uzi Vert.

The acoustic ballad was previously teased on what would have been the rapper born Jahseh Onfroy’s 25th birthday on Jan. 23, but the release was held until Sunday, exactly five years after Onfroy was shot and killed in Florida at the age of 20.

In a note that accompanied the track, X’s longtime collaborator John Cunningham said, “When I was living with Jah...

If Governors Ball is back, it must be summer in New York. The annual festival returned to Queens in early June in roomy new digs: Flushing Meadows Corona Park, just down the block from its 2021-22 home at Citi Field. The sprawling, tree-lined grounds were reminiscent of Gov Ball’s years on Randall’s Island, for anyone whose memories go back as far as the 2010s, only nicer and easier to get to by public transit. With one rainstorm aside, it was a beautiful weekend made all the more welcome...

Rolling Loud will not return to New York City this year, with festival organizers citing “logistical factors beyond our control” in an Instagram post shared Friday, March 17.

The NYC iteration of the festival (which started in Miami) began in 2019, setting up shop at Citi Field in Queens. Though 2020 was skipped because of the pandemic, Rolling Loud New York returned in 2021 and 2022.

Despite calling off this year’s festival, organizers seemed hopeful that Rolling Loud New York would return at some point, writing: “But Don’t worry, this isn’t ‘Goodbye.

Roddy Ricch is fed up with the “harassment” he’s faced at the hands of the Vancouver border patrol, and says he probably won’t be returning to Canada “anytime soon.”

The Compton-based rapper was slated to support Post Malone on his Twelve Carat Tour on Sunday in Vancouver, but says he was blocked at the border, noting this isn’t the first time he’s been harassed by Canada’s border officers.

Read More: Roddy Ricch Reveals He Spoke To Grammys About Lil Baby And Lil Uzi Vert Nominations

“The Federal Border Patrol did not allow me into Vancouver, BC,” Ricch said in an Instagram Story on Sunday. “I apologize to my fans. I don’t believe I’ll be revisiting Canada anytime soon because they’ve harassed me every time I’ve come and Imma be completely honest, I’m tired of the harassment.”

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During a call with analysts today, executives from Nexstar Media Group revealed how they hope to turn the CW into more of a cost-conscious broadcast network that appeals to a broader audience. Turns out the CW is a lot closer to that goal than anyone might have imagined.

The reality, according to Nexstar President and COO Tom Carter, is that the average CW viewer is 58 years old — which he thinks is why the broadcast network is also the lowest-rated among all five. Since the CW is home to such teen faves as Riverdale, All American and The Flash, news of its 50-something appeal elicited more than a few laughs online.

“I would have laughed if the average age was 40,” wrote Mike Royce, the former EP on One Day at a Time, on Twitter. “58 is true comic genius.”

Royce went on to suggest that his old TNT comedy Men of a Certain Age...

Lil Uzi Vert is feeding fans with back-to-back singles. On Monday, the “20 Min” rapper released “I Know” on SoundCloud, just two days after dropping their single “Space Cadet” over the weekend.

“Made that girl drop it on the floor (Floor)/In the days with my cash grow (Grow),” Uzi raps on the second verse. “Pick it up oh-so slow (Slow)/Made her eat my tadpole (‘Pole).”

The new Sonny Digital-produced track is set to be featured on the upcoming Red & White EP, their first project since Pluto x Baby Pluto with Future.

Pharrell’s Something in the Water music festival returned for the second time ever this weekend, bringing three days of music to Washington, D.C. for Juneteenth weekend. The location was new: Pharrell moved his festival to D.C. after criticizing the “toxic energy” of the local government in his hometown of Virginia Beach, Virginia, where the first Sitw was held in 2019, and where his younger cousin was killed by police in 2021. On June 17-19, the super-producer and his many talented friends from across the worlds of rap, pop, R&b,...