Lil Uzi Vert has announced the dates for their upcoming Pink Tape Tour supporting the album of the same name. Kicking off on Saturday, October 21 in Minneapolis, the tour will consist of 17 dates, concluding in the rapper’s hometown, Philadelphia, on Wednesday, November 22. It’ll be Uzi’s first official tour since 2018’s Endless Summer Tour.
Tickets will go on sale beginning today at 2 PM local time on Ticketmaster.com. Although Uzi’s openers have not been announced yet, you can bet that they’ll reveal them in due course. Meanwhile, fans already have plenty of new Uzi music to look forward to; the fashion-forward rapper has already teased a follow-up to Pink Tape in the form of LUV Is Rage 3.
Check out the upcoming tour dates below.
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10/21/2023 — Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory
10/23/2023 — Chicago, IL @ Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
10/24/2023 — Cincinnati, OH @ The Andrew J Brady Music Center
10/25/2023 — Detroit, MI @ Fox Theatre
10/31/2023 — Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway
11/02/2023 — Hampton, VA @ Hampton Coliseum
11/03/2023 — Raleigh, NC @ PNC Arena
11/05/2023 — Birmingham, AL @ Avondale Brewing Company
11/06/2023 — Atlanta, GA @ Coca Cola Roxy
11/08/2023 — Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom
11/09/2023 — Austin, TX @ Moody Center
11/10/2023 — Houston, TX @ 713 Music Hall
11/13/2023 — Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium
11/16/2023 — Los Angeles, CA @ The Kia Forum
11/18/2023 — San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
11/20/2023 — Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
11/22/2023 — Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center
Lil Uzi Vert is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
When rappers are in the midst of their fame, such as Lil Uzi Vert, a few weeks into their release of the Pink Tape, they have to flex. Lil Uzi is enjoying the success of the latest album drop, and they are letting their Instagram fans know about it. “Not 2 much Na!” reads the caption, along with a wolf emoji. The photos are of Lil Uzi lounging across two charter airplane seats. Fat stacks of cash cover both their body and the table in front of him.
The Philly native also threw out pictures and videos of their shows that have recently been turned up. And with sales projections for Pink Tape looking very impressive, Lil Uzi is looking for something no true hip-hop album has ever done: Make it number one on the Billboard 200. While it would be an impressive feat, it would make sense if it was Lil Uzi. They might be the best rapper in the world right now, with a meteoric rise in their career since 2020, when the artist rereleased their 2016 mixtape Lil Uzi Vert vs. the World 2.
Wearing a black bunny mask and relaxing in the dough, Lil Uzi was tucking into one comfortable flight. What’s even more amazing is that they aren’t done making waves. They want to release their latest project, 222, soon. Other rappers, like Lil Tjay, are worried they’ll drop it on the same day or time as their own albums. But Lil Uzi Vert made it clear: They’d give the people what “they really want” if Pink Tape hit certain criteria. It looks like Pink Tape is going to surpass lofty projections, meaning Uzi could drop 222 any time now.
They’ve been in the rap game since 2010, but it wasn’t until their 2020 double-whammy that they achieved astronomical fame. First, they released the album Eternal Atake, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Second, their updated mixtape (mentioned above) surpassed all streaming markers at the time. (This was most likely due to the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.) People have listened to a ton of Lil Uzi since the coronavirus came onto the scene. And the rapper has been dealing with a sick amount of cash.
Speaking on the We Are Florida podcast, YouTube personality and comedian Charleston White opened up about the current events in pop culture, especially the hip-hop community. After dismissing the 2023 BET Awards — “I ain’t into that bullsh*t” — they got onto the topic of Lil Uzi Vert. His latest album, Pink Tape, dropped recently. The second track on the list, “Suicide Doors,” features a rant White did speaking on Lil Uzi. “But I know he a sissified-looking n*gga that put fingernail polish on his motherfucking nails and wear dresses,” White says in the intro to the song.
While Lil Uzi Vert could’ve been really mad about Charleston White going after his manhood, he instead used it as the intro to one of the most important tracks on his album. Not only that, he has to pay him royalty checks for using his voice. “Yeah, I’m happier than a b*tch,” White says on the podcast when asked about his reaction. He explains that Vert’s people contacted him for permission to feature his rant on the song, and they ended up cutting White a “pretty nice check,” with future publishing checks on the way.
Charleston is incredibly grateful for the rapper including him on the tracklist, saying that he really blessed his game. “Shout out to [Lil Uzi Vert],” Charleston White said on the pod. “Cause I wasn’t speaking [favorably] of him, right? So he could’ve got [offended] and be like, ‘Nah, f*ck that [guy].” Getting paid by a guy you were dissing not too long ago? That’s one hell of a flex by the number-one rapper in the world right now.
The podcast episode features a lot of White-hot takes, including being out on award shows. Charleston White is also not a fan of football or basketball. Considering he just had five shows in Jacksonville, FL, it seems like he’s too busy to worry himself about other areas of popular culture. However, he’s overall pleased to be on a Lil Uzi Vert track. (Especially if the money keeps pouring in.)
Earlier this year, I was faced with a surreal, worlds-collide moment when Lil Uzi Vert popped out at Wrestlemania at the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles to perform their increasingly inescapable hit “Just Wanna Rock.” Just a month before, I had seen him perform the same song during his sub-headlining set at Rolling Loud, basically at the same venue, just outside. The first time, I was there to cover the music; the second, I’d been invited by a wrestling-obsessed friend who had floor seats for the main event.
Here we are, three months later, and Uzi’s new album, Pink Tape, features a similar dizzying moment of professional and personal crossover. The late-album song “Nakamura” actually samples the ring entrance music of WWE wrestler Shinsuke Nakamura, someone Uzi undoubtedly sees as something of a kindred spirit. Wrestlers, in general, are kind of weird (to me), but Nakamura takes it a step further with flamboyant, borderline androgynous ring gear and a demeanor somewhere between very intense and incredibly stoned.
Rap fans love to talk about what “the Rap Game needs” because rap fans love to complain about what the “Rap Game” isn’t. The format has evolved so much from what it once was that its followers often feel caught in the lurch between always chasing the newest, latest thing and nostalgically wishing to return to the moment the genre was perfect for what they wanted (coincidentally, this time always seems to overlap with whenever a particular listener happened to be in eighth grade). Thank God we have Lil Uzi Vert, who can do both.
When Uzi first popped up on the scene from the primordial soup of SoundCloud, old-school rap heads were furious. Here was this kid from the streets of Philadelphia who seemingly bought all their clothes from Hot Topic and had pink dreads and facial piercings, as prone to yowling into the mic for extended bouts or hypnotically repeating a seemingly nonsense phrase over and over as spit a hot 16 full of punchlines and gun talk. Uzi wasn’t “real hip-hop,” and certainly couldn’t really rap. Except that Uzi was as much real hip-hop as the yay-slanging studio gangsters of yesteryear and actually could really rap their ass off if they wanted to — they just didn’t think they had to.
Now that Uzi is an established fixture of the hip-hop mainstream, they could have laid off the wild stylistic experimentation, gotten complacent, and just continued doing the same stuff that got them here. Instead, on Pink Tape they are doing stuff like covering System Of A Down’s signature hit “Chop Suey,” which has experienced a resurgence in popularity thanks to Zoomers on TikTok — people that grew with Lil Uzi Vert as their musical heroes the way millennials did with Jay-Z. Is it nostalgia that drove Uzi to record the cover or contemporary awareness? Who cares? It’s cool, whatever we who grew up on the original think.
Uzi straddles multiple genres across Pink Tape, opening the album with in-your-face braggadocio raps and immediately swerving into screeching trap metal on the very next song. There are screaming electric guitars and thundering 808s, futuristic anime references, squeaky voice crooning (645AR is somewhere punching the air), Eiffel 65 samples, horror-movie strings, and more. If anything here isn’t your cup of tea, don’t worry — something on the tape probably is.
The “rap game” — an inaccurate moniker, shout out to Vince Staples — needs artists like Lil Uzi Vert to remind us that hip-hop has always been on the cutting edge, not stuck in the same, capitalism-serving patterns of “what works” (read: sells) already. That hip-hop was always for weirdos and misfits who did stuff like watch wrestling and read comics and played video games. Busta Rhymes once name-checked Hacksaw Jim Duggan; the Wu-Tang Clan members gave themselves nicknames like Tony Stark and Johnny Blaze; The Notorious B.I.G. started a verse boasting he had a Super Nintendo and a Sega Genesis.
Somewhere along the way as we grow up, we get stuck in what rap used to sound like and start thinking that’s the only thing it should ever sound like. Uzi’s primal scream, anything-goes, try-it-and-see-if-it-sticks approach to music is here to shake us out of that complacency and boredom. Even if it doesn’t always work — let’s keep it real: most of this isn’t really for me, personally — it’s there to open up a new avenue that hasn’t been tried yet. It’s there to pay homage to what did work but to ask, “What if we tried something new?” Lil Uzi Vert indulges all their impulses to make it possible to see what happens like Nakamura climbing to the top rope. You don’t know what you’re going to see next, but you know it’s going to be special.
Pink Tape is out now via Atlantic.
Lil Uzi Vert is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Shortly after the release of the long-awaited Pink Tape, Lil Uzi Vert has already begun teasing another upcoming album. Uzi previously noted that Pink Tape would not be getting a deluxe edition — breaking tradition with many recent new releases — and that they would instead put out a whole new album. This is similar to what they did in 2020 with Eternal Atake, whose “deluxe edition” turned out to be a completely different album titled LUV Vs. The World 2.
It seems Uzi is starting a new tradition because they have changed their Instagram bio to read “Luv is rage 3,” suggesting another sequel to their 2015 debut mixtape is on the way. Considering how quickly Uzi turned around LUV Vs. The World 2 — which came out just a week after Eternal Atake — perhaps fans won’t have to wait very long to find out. Uzi first teased Luv Is Rage 3 in 2020, so they’ve had plenty of time to get it done. If Uzi continues in the same vein they did back in 2020, a potential Luv Is Rage 3 could have a completely different sound from Pink Tape.
Lil Uzi Vert’s The Pink Tape is currently on top of the world, but Uzi is teasing more music. Hitting his Instagram stories, Lil Uzi Vert teases for forthcoming music.
“Get this 2 number one And I will drop the album The album yall really looking for ,” Uzi wrote on Instagram. Found in his bio is “Luv is Rage 3.”
Lil Uzi Vert’s The Pink Tape is projected to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, ending a drought for rap albums on top of the charts. The first-week figure is projected for over 200K units.
“Get this 2 number one and i will drop the album y’all really looking for”
The new release is a massive 26 tracks deep and brings in Nicki Minaj, Travis Scott, Don Toliver, Bring Me The Horizon, and BABYMETAL. The new album features the uber-popular single “Just Wanna Rock”
According to Billboard, before the launch of the album Lil Uzi Vert hosted a prom-themed album listening party at Irving Plaza in New York City, with Lil Baby and City Girls’ JT on hand.
Gibson Hazard directs the animated trailer and shows the “Just Wanna Rock” rapper preparing for a final battle after ousting all his other animated opps after his pink diamond is removed from his forehead.
After years of anticipation, hype, and speculation, Lil Uzi Vert’s Pink Tape boasts no shortage of highlights, collaborations, and production highlights. After all, with 26 tracks ranging across rage, plugg, contemporary trap, and metal, how could it not? Still, one particular song that many old-school Uzi fans probably appreciate is “x2,” one of the synthiest and bounciest cuts on the whole project. With expressive vocalizations, simple flows, and outlandish lyrics from the Philly MC, it’s an energizing and fun track to bump wherever. In addition, the beat features the quick and lasery synths that much of their catalog boasts, and that became part of their trademark sound.
Moreover, “x2” actually features production credits from none other than Opium signee and new school fan favorite Ken Carson. Furthermore, in a recent Instagram post showcasing their latest performance, Lil Uzi Vert thanked the rage specialist for producing the beat. “Thank you for this beat,” they wrote to Ken Carson, including a black heart and vampire emoji. What’s more is that some of Uzi’s flows and delivery actually resemble occasional collaborator Yeat’s, another important figure in the rage genre.
Of course, this also confirmed previous teases that Ken Carson participated in Pink Tape to some degree, which surely pleased fans. However, another artist that Lil Uzi Vert teased to potentially be on the album was Playboi Carti, which didn’t end up panning out. While fans expressed disappointment at that reality, not all hope vanished as Uzi’s team accidentally uploaded a Carti collab to YouTube upon Pink Tape‘s release instead of the Don Toliver-assisted “Patience.” Many hope that this suggests that a collaboration between the “wokeuplikethis*” MCs isn’t far away.
Meanwhile, Uzi confirmed that their next album will be entirely new, and not a deluxe or expanded version of Pink Tape. With that, hype once again surged for their next musical moves, as we’re sure will happen any time there’s a gap in releases. Hopefully that next project also features more Opium involvement, or goes in an entirely new direction altogether. With that in mind, come back to HNHH for more news and updates on Lil Uzi Vert and Ken Carson.
After years of delays, Lil Uzi Vert finally released their highly anticipated album, Pink Tape. The “Just Wanna Rock” rapper secured guest features from Travis Scott, Nicki Minaj, Don Toliver, and more. As fans continue to shift through the project, Uzi is making it clear that they’ve washed their hands of the body of work. Instead of following the trend of dropping an extended version of an album, Lil Uzi Vert has let supporters know that Pink Tape will not have a deluxe edition.
The entertainer appeared via audio on Twitch streamer Kani Rose’s broadcast. As fans flooded the live chat, they pushed Rose to ask the musician about their new album. When the gamer asked Uzi whether or not Pink Tape would have any additional iterations, they quickly answered, “No.”
However, Uzi clarified that they would release more music, saying, “But I will drop a whole ‘nother album.”
The album was caught up in controversy before its release when Lil Uzi Vert and their girlfriend JT (of City Girls) were involved in a physical altercation at the 2023 BET Awards.
Pink Tape is out now via Atlantic Records. Find more information here.
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Lil Uzi Vert just released their highly anticipated new album Pink Tape. The album features collaborations with rappers like Travis Scott, Nicki Minaj, and Don Toliver as well as metal bands like Bring Me The Horizon and BABYMETAL. While it served up 23 songs and three more bonus tracks rumors swirled about how many more tracks had been recorded. Now Uzi has shut down rumors of a pending deluxe edition of the album.
In a recent livestream while playing Call Of Duty a fan asked Uzi about whether or not Pink Tape would get a deluxe album. Their answer was pretty definitive. “Nah, I’m gonna drop a whole ‘nother album,” they quickly responded. While fans were clearly hoping for new music even the most optimistic probably weren’t expecting a new album. It wouldn’t be the first time that Uzi turned right around with new material. When they released their last highly-anticipated album Eternal Atake in 2020, it got a “deluxe” edition just a week later. Turns out that the deluxe edition was an entirely new album in itself, Lil Uzi Vert vs The World 2.
This isn’t the only time recently that Call Of Duty has played a role in a viral clip of Lil Uzi Vert. In an adorable video that made the rounds last week, Uzi reunited with Nardwuar. The pair did a classic interview together in 2018 that fans still quote and remix today. At the end of their conversation, Uzi hilarious invites Nardwuar over to his house for dinner under the premise that the rapper will teach him how to play Call Of Duty.
Last week Lil Uzi Vert hosted a “Pink Tape Party” and celebs showed out. They took pictures with rapper Trippie Redd and made up with partner JT after a viral fight at the BET Awards. The pair have since cleared the air and made sure nobody misinterpreted anything. What do you think of Lil Uzi Vert teasing their new album? Let us know in the comment section below.
Travis Scott and Lil Uzi Vert performed their new song, “Aye,” together for the first time in Dublin, Ireland on Sunday. The two both took the stage at Longitude 2023. Uzi dropped the collaboration on their new album, Pink Tape, on Friday. Other performers throughout the weekend included Calvin Harris, Metro Boomin, Joey Bada$$, and more.
“Aye” is quickly becoming one of the early fan favorites from the Pink Tape. On the track, Uzi raps, “I put them diamonds my teeth (Aye) / Might put somе diamonds my nose (Aye) / Aye, I put them diamonds my teeth (Aye) / Might put some diamonds my nosе (Aye, huh?).”
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 27: Lil Uzi Vert attends Lil Uzi Vert Hosts Pink Prom at Irving Plaza on June 27, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images)
Other collaborations featured on the Pink Tape include Nicki Minaj, Bring Me the Horizon, Don Toliver, and Babymetal. On the production side, Uzi worked with Don Cannon, BNYX, Ken Carson, Rick Rubin, Maaly Raw, Wheezy, and many more.
On the album, Uzi raps about their sexuality during the track “Flooded the Face,” reaffirming to fans that they’re straight. The lyrics come after Uzi previously changed their pronouns to they/them. Uzi discussed their gender identity ahead of the album during an interview with 032c magazine. “Taking the time to figure out who you are is a big part of what it means to be alive. Once you figure out whether you’re here with it, there with it, or both, you’re not alone anymore. This community offers access to a certain kind of support that you might not have had [previously during] your entire life because you weren’t raised that way. I come from a household where it’s not okay to be ‘non’ anything.”
Travis Scott & Lil Uzi Vert Perform “Aye”
Travis Scott and Lil Uzi Vert performed “Aye” together for the first time in Dublin pic.twitter.com/s7uWVtGsC4
The performance for Travis comes ahead of the release of his upcoming album, Utopia. While he’s been teasing the album for years at this point, hints of its imminent release have become more and more prevalent in recent weeks.
And I will drop the album The album yall really looking for 
