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Lil Uzi Vert, like many artists from the SoundCloud period, has seen an ideal chunk of their catalog make its means on-line by leaks. On Monday (Dec. 30), throughout Pitchfork’s “Over/Below,” the “Simply Wanna Rock” hitmaker shared their sincere ideas on the more and more widespread concern in music.
“Leaks aren’t able to be introduced,” the Grammy-nominated artist stated earlier than addressing followers, scammers, and the “individuals in these rooms, within the Discords.” They continued, “And y’all sit there and say, ‘Oh, Lil Uzi is trash,’ y’all actually are mainly watching me dress in my closet. I don’t [have] my garments on but. So y’all mainly see me bare.”
“Y’all [are] not giving me a second to dress. Earlier than I may gown the music up, y’all decide it,” Lil Uzi Vert additional emphasised. After all, when it got here time to decide on, they merely described leaks as “horrible”: “It’s not even a over or underrated.”
Earlier within the episode, Lil Uzi Vert curiously revealed that lots of their earlier songs had been leaked “by electronic mail.” They claimed, “E-mail is just not wanted. Group texts… [are] underrated. That’s the brand new electronic mail… E-mail is silly.”
Compared to their friends, 2024 was a quiet 12 months for Lil Uzi Vert, who solely returned to social media in October. The next month, they rolled out their fourth studio album, Everlasting Atake 2. The 16-song providing arrived with a lone function from Massive Time Rush and memorable information like “Gentle Yr (Observe),” “Meteor Man” and “Chill Bae.”
Sadly, the undertaking didn’t do all that nicely sales-wise. It got here in at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, marking the Philadelphia artist’s fifth High 10 undertaking with 59,000 album-equivalent items. Nonetheless, numbers fell brief when contemplating the success of 2023’s Pink Tape and 2020’s Everlasting Atake.
The 12 months of 2025, nonetheless, appears to be a bit extra promising, with Lil Uzi Vert confirming they’re “100%” hitting the street. “This time, earlier than I even know any official dates, I’m already locked in to begin rehearsing,” he informed Rolling Stone.