“I’m still livin’ in my last year.”Īfter spending 10 months on pause with Eternal Atake in high rotation, we’re all living in the last year, thinking back - sometimes with anger, more often than not with intravenous sadness - to the private promises we made to ourselves about how 2020 would be different. Lyrically, “P2” sees Uzi in a similarly reflective space as “XO TOUR Llif3,” albeit with the newfound benefit of passed time. After “Prices,” the final six-song chapter gives us a slew of decidedly 2016-nodding entries, including this segment’s centerpiece “P2.” “You are now leaving EA, the Dark World,” a voice informs both Uzi and the listener. “We’ll surely ascend in the fall,” we told each other. As masks became commonplace among fellow brain-possessors, and as a failed steak salesman sewed a sinewy promotional campaign in support of hoax-ifying it all, we shifted again. “We’ll ascend later in the summer,” we thought.
Within days, any hope of ascending with a crowd of thousands as soon as Uzi dropped “Baby Pluto” were dashed, though we all clung to a blind optimism that had us believing ascension was merely paused. The album, after being relentlessly teased with admirable-in-hindsight calculation since 2018, finally worked its way into our collective bloodstream on March 6. But that’s a key part of a mid-pandemic spin of Eternal Atake. Sure, this meticulously imagined scenario still feels eons away from being a possibility. As the molly kicks in, you ascend with Bang wings and turn to your friend, trading the icky/hickey/sticky/picky/busy lines from the song while embracing the anonymity of this burgeoning mosh pit. Lil Uzi Vert is one of the hottest young rappers on the scene currently and has songs with some of the biggest names in the game including Nicki Minaj.Suddenly, you think back to the first time you heard Eternal Atake and are struck with a deep existential pang. The single also won Song of the Summer at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards. The album also debuts at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart this week after selling 135,000 copies including streaming equivalent units in the first week. The single has since been certified double-platinum and reached the top ten on Billboard Hot 100 chart. “XO Tour Llif3” is featured on Uzi’s debut album Luv Is Rage 2 released last month. Pretty sure that didn’t happen on tour, but it compliments the gory theme. In another scene, you can see dead bodies in a bathtub with blood everywhere. In one scene Lil Uzi Vert walks through the streets wearing a glittering shirt and vest while Arabic letters float at the bottom of the screen. The gory video gives fans a graphic glimpse what life is like behind the scenes while the Philly rapper was touring with the XO leader. The rapper recorded the single while he was on tour with The Weeknd for the European leg of his “Starboy: Legend of the Fall Tour.” The four-minute cut was produced by Off-White Films and directed by Virgil Abloh.
Uzi has been having a great year and this song is perhaps his biggest hit to date. Lil Uzi Vert drop the long awaited video for his mega hit “ XO Tour Llif3” starring The Weeknd.