Lil Uzi Vert recently participated in the latest episode of Pitchfork's Over/Under podcast episode that was published on `Pitchfork YouTube on December 30, 2024. During the episode, the singer slammed both leakers and people who listen to said leaks, comparing it to people breaching his privacy and seeing him nude:
“Leaks be so overrated. Leaks are not ready to be presented. When y’all get leaks, fans, or the leak police, or the leak scammers, or the people in those rooms and the discords and all that, when y’all sit there and y’all get 82 of my leaked songs, right, that I haven’t put together the right way."
Lil Uzi Vert continued:
"[People] sit here and say, ‘Oh, Lil Uzi is trash. Y’all literally are basically watching me get dressed in my closet. I don’t got my clothes on yet. So y’all basically see me naked...lAll y’all, y’all trash. Y’all not giving me a second to get dressed. So before I could dress the song up, y’all judge it. So leaks are horrible. It’s not even an over or underrated, horrible."
The response from the rapper comes after a massive leak in 2023 when more than a dozen songs were leaked from his then-project Barter 16. The rapper is among the many artists to have faced leaking of music. Before 2023, he faced similar leaks in 2019, and more.
Lil Uzi Vert released his latest studio album in 2024
Lil Uzi Vert released his latest studio album, Eternal Atake 2, on November 1, 2024. The rapper talked about the album in an exclusive interview with Rolling Stone magazine that was published on November 2, 2024, stating:
"The way I project my voice. There are lyrics in my songs that are good and lyrics in my songs that are playful, but it’s usually about the tone of my voice in the song. They’d say, “Oh, Uzi just made another hit.” It’s the tone. So it’s a different bag and pocket that I usually get into when it’s time to cook up something."
Lil Uzi Vert continued:
"For a lot of the records, I felt like I was in outer space, but the reality of it, when it came down to the mixing and when it came down to getting the songs actually the right format of how I want them to be, it was kind of refreshing that I really worked this hard on these songs, instead of me just putting songs together like I’m going to get paid."
The tracklist for the album is given below:
- We Good - 2:05
- Light Year (Practice) - 2:44
- Meteor Man - 3:47
- Paars in the Mars - 3:00
- The Rush feat Big Time Rush - 3:06
- Not an Option - 2:30
- She Stank - 2:05
- Mr Chow - 2:57
- Lyft Em Up - 2:44
- Chips and Dip - 2:46
- Black Hole - 2:48
- Chill Bae - 2:18
- Goddard Song - 2:20
- PerkySex - 2:50
- Conceited - 3:10
- Space High - 2:11
The album featured production from the following producers:
- Cashmere Cat
- Brandon Finessin
- Henney Major
- Lil 88
- MCVertt
- Charlie Puth
- WondaGurl
The album was a follow-up to Lil Uzi Vert's second studio album, Eternal Atake, which was released on March 6, 2020. The album is currently the singer's highest charting album, and commercially his second most successful album after the debut studio album.