It’s been greater than three years since A-list rap weirdo Lil Uzi Vert launched Everlasting Atake, their final correct studio album. However Uzi has all the time been current, they usually’ve recorded a lot of fabric. Uzi continues to crank out guest-verses, headline festivals, and provides attention-grabbing awards-show performances. Final yr, they launched the smash Jersey membership experiment “Simply Wanna Rock” and the Pink & White EP. At the moment, they’ve lastly come out with the huge, sprawling new album Pink Tape, which they simply introduced this week. It’s quite a bit.

Pink Tape has 23 tracks, plus one other three bonus tracks. It apparently might’ve been for much longer; Uzi reportedly recruited a bunch of mates to assist them slender down the tracklist from 680 potential tracks. Uzi has additionally mentioned that they recorded the album sober, but it surely’s nonetheless a lot messy. There are only some visitors on the album, and people visitors make for a bewildering crew: Travis Scott, Nicki Minaj, Don Toliver, UK metalcore superstars Deliver Me The Horizon, and Japanese J-pop/metallic act Babymetal. Fairly bizarre!

Lil Uzi Vert runs in the identical circles as Travis Scott, Nicki Minaj, and Don Toliver, they usually just lately appeared, alongside Glassjaw’s Daryl Palumbo, on the Deliver Me The Horizon track “AmEN!” However Babymetal? No one noticed that one coming. Final night time, Twitter briefly bought excited when Uzi’s label by chance uploaded the Playboi Carti observe “Wealthy Ass Bastard,” as an alternative of the particular Don Toliver collab “Persistence.” “Wealthy Ass Bastard” stays unreleased.

We even have to speak in regards to the samples on right here. “CS” is mainly a full-on cowl of System Of A Down’s 2001 metallic basic “Chop Suey!,” with Uzi singing over the unique instrumental. “Nakamura” is Uzi rapping over the WWE theme music from the good Japanese wrestler Shinsuke Nakamura. The Nicki Minaj collab “Countless Trend” is the newest of many songs to interpolate Eiffel 65’s 1998 cheese-dance basic “Blue (Da Ba Dee).” “Mama, I’m Sorry” interpolates Gotye’s “Any person That I Used To Know” and makes use of the hook from Chief Keef’s “Hate Being Sober,” whereas “Hearth Alarm” is mainly simply Uzi rapping over Justice’s “Stress.” This album has singsong stadium rap, membership music, arena-metal, hyperpop, and a complete lot of different stuff within the combine. It’s a very unpredictable experience. Hearken to it beneath.

Pink Tape is out now on Era Now/Atlantic. If Everlasting Atake is any indication, Uzi would possibly simply launch a full-length sequel throughout the subsequent week. You by no means know with this man.