The songs in this section stand out from the more generic sounds of the first section, and are head and shoulders above the legions of contemporary rappers aspiring to mix vocal melodies with more traditional rap deliveries. The middle section of this album allows Uzi to expand beyond the faster flows and more basic beats into his forte of melodic hip hop anthems with soaring choruses. While Uzi is by no means the greatest rapper bar for bar, the first part of the album packs an energy that is soon furthered as the album transitions to part two.
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Baby Pluto is a perfect album opener, offering one of Uzi’s best flows to date and preparing the listener for a relentless no frills series of tracks that prove Uzi is more than just a melodic crooner. This track, and the opening part of the album, show Uzi deploying a blistering flow over an uptempo trap beat. The album kicks off with the track titled after one of the most recently devised personalities, Baby Pluto. Each section contains a different style, delivered by an alter-ego of the eccentric emcee. While this album superficially resembles scores of other trap rap albums that dominate the current pop culture musicscape, Eternal Atake offers a much more eclectic and intriguing listening experience.įirst off, to better understand Eternal Atake, and coincidentally Uzi himself, one must break the album into three sections. Uzi and his team have crafted an 18 track (that may expand with an upcoming deluxe version) behemoth of a pop rap album. To answer simply, and somewhat surprisingly, yes. With all the hype and controversy surrounding Eternal Atake, when it surprisingly dropped this week, the biggest question on the minds of many fans and critics was: “Does it live up to the hype?” Since then, speculation about the album and Uzi’s career status has run rampant, label arguments that look more like daytime soaps than the Instagram videos they are have been posted, and a whole industry of buying and selling snippets and leaks has arisen, some of the most coveted of which can sell for thousands of dollars. An obvious influence on Uzi’s discography, Chief Keef provides the woozy beat for “Chrome Heart Tags,” reminding that there are levels to Uzi’s artistry.Review Summary: Uzi delivers a diverse dose of melodic pop rapĪ lot happened in the year and a half since Lil Uzi Vert teased a cult inspired album cover and the title for his newest album, Eternal Atake. He imbues the post-EDM aesthetic of “Celebration Station” and the video-game trap of “Silly Watch” alike with speedy, free-associative verses that run from gun talk to sexual exploits. Without relying on showy features-save for one memorable duet with Syd on the otherworldly “Urgency”-Uzi does more than most of those who’ve jacked his style in the interim. With the wait finally over, the patient listenership that made do with running back to 2017’s Luv Is Rage 2 again and again can take in his glittering opus. For nearly two years, fans eagerly anticipated the release of Eternal Atake, a maddeningly delayed project whose legend grew while tragedy befell some of the Philadelphia native’s emo rap peers, including Lil Peep and XXXTENTACION. One of the most heralded hip-hop artists of his generation, Lil Uzi Vert built no small part of his well-deserved reputation off of the promise of a record nobody had heard.
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