In April, he would return with new singles "Sanguine Paradise" and "That's a Rack," ahead of confirming Eternal Atake's completion in May. Last January, the rapper announced on Instagram that he was "done with music" and had "deleted everything," leading listeners to wonder if Eternal Atake would see release. That soon prompted legal threats from remaining members of the cult. Lil Uzi Vert first announced Eternal Atake in 2018 and shared initial cover art for the album featuring a reimagined logo for cult Heaven's Gate. On Twitter last night (March 5), Uzi also revealed that Chief Keef produced the beat for "Chrome Heart Tags."
“Urgency” and “Venetia” communicate the distant, kaleidoscopic beauty of nebulas, while “Secure the Bag” and the restrained “XO TOUR Llif3″ sequel “P2” solemnly gesture towards the incomprehensible vastness of the cosmos.Nearly three full years removed from sharing studio debut Luv Is Rage 2, Lil Uzi Vert has finally delivered long-awaited follow-up Eternal Atake, and you can stream the entire thing below.Īrriving today through Atlantic, Eternal Atake includes a lone feature from the Internet's Syd, while tacking on the Nardwuar-sampling "Futsal Shuffle 2020" and the Backstreet Boys-interpolating "That Way" as bonus tracks. The Billboard chart-topping artist shared a picture featuring some purported. The stardust-coated sense of wonder that animates the Renji side carries into the third and final side, told from the perspective of Uzi himself. Lil Uzi Vert appears to be having some fun with his fans, teasing his rumored Eternal Atake album on social media. Angelic vocal backgrounds appear on every song here, giving this side of the record an incredible feeling of uplift the two surviving members of Heaven’s Gate are going to have a hard time resisting, despite the millenarian cult’s recent threat of legal action against Lil Uzi. The last two surviving members of the Heavens Gate are fuming over rapper Lil Uzi Verts album artwork emulating the cult, claiming it is not a fair use or parody.
(“I am so high I can’t land now.”) The bittersweet, Keef-produced “Chrome Heart Tags,” suggests that retail therapy and Bentleys are the best remedy for relationship blues (“Hotbox a Mulsanne/ I just gotta ventilate,” he raps). On “I’m Sorry,” a break-up postmortem, he seems to wonder if his fame is preventing him from making meaningful human connections. The second side, which features Uzi’s Renji alter-ego, is the album’s strongest and most vulnerable. Lil Uzi Vert posted artwork for his forthcoming album on Instagram this week. “POP,” the intensely beating heart of the Baby Pluto section, takes pages from the playbooks of Chief Keef, Playboi Carti, and Waka Flocka Uzi’s repetition of the word “BOW,” “POP,” and, ultimately, “BALENCI” will make the listener want to ram their head into the nearest hard surface, whether from irritation or excitement. The first, which introduces Uzi’s Baby Pluto persona, is a relentless barrage of flexes and the site of the album’s most memorable rapping showcases. Eternal Atake contains some of the best rapping moments of his career, a development foreshadowed by the 2019 G Herbo-sampling loose single “Free Uzi,” as well as the snippets leaked and shared in the interminable run-up to the album’s release.Įternal Atake plays out across three six-song sides.
According to Page Six, the surviving members of Heaven’s Gate a religious group most known for its 1997 mass suicide. He’s still melodically minded-note the almost melismatic flourish of “Got a model/ with vitiligo” on “Prices”-but Eternal Atake sometimes feels like a return to 2013, when he was a nobody in Philly serving the kinetic, drill-adjacent, rapid-fire street raps that inspired his name. One of the world’s most infamous cults is coming for Lil Uzi Vert. Eternal Atake is Lil Uzi Vert’s best album yet, with a cohesiveness, slick concept, and performance that justifies every ounce of hype.
It is difficult to remember a rap album released to such fervid expectations, let alone one that lived up to those expectations. “I live my life like a cartoon,” he raps on “You Better Move,” “Reality is not my move.” These are the truest words on the album.Įternal Atake arrives after two years of delays, label drama, and frustrations so intense that they led Uzi to momentarily quit music.
Eternal Atake is also a concept album that tells the surreal story of Uzi’s abduction and journey through space, and its alternately explosive and glossy production (spearheaded by Philadelphia collective Working on Dying), well-executed skits, and Uzi’s pint-sized, Super Saiyan charisma elevate the LP from escapist fantasy to galactic odyssey. He stacks money to the moon, swaddles himself in jewelry, luxury clothing, and fast cars, and cycles through girls to preempt heartache, as though ramping up his blasé lifestyle can keep the ennui of stardom at bay. Uzi’s new, hugely anticipated album Eternal Atake serves as a stark reminder that he is not, in fact, one of us.