![]() “We didn’t want to go through that again.” “We’d just spent a month and half recording in Hawaii, and I had to justify all this money Atlantic had given us that we’d just blown.” Uzi had lost a phone in 2016 that contained some new collaborations with fellow mumble-rap fashion plate Young Thug, and those were soon leaked on the internet. ![]() The songs they’d finished were on one of the lost phones. and Hawaii, working on tracks for his first official album, to be released on Generation Now through Atlantic Records. “And he’d broke the screen on a third.” Prior to Europe, Uzi and his team had been in L.A. “He lost two phones, actually,” says Leighton “Lake” Morrison, one of the principals, along with veteran producers Don Cannon and DJ Drama, of Uzi’s Atlanta-based label, Generation Now. Backstage after the set, he realized he’d lost his phone during the plunge. Uzi, who counts late nihilist punk GG Allin and ’90s shock-rocker Marilyn Manson as heroes, dove into the crowd during a gig in Geneva. In this, the year hip-hop won the music business, one of its defining hits was released more or less by mistake.īack in February, Lil Uzi Vert, a charismatic, septum-pierced 23-year-old rapper out of Philadelphia who’d become internet famous with a frenetic outpouring of digital singles, EPs, and mixtapes, was on his first tour of Europe, opening a string of shows for the Weeknd.
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