His lyrics rely on variations on a handful of themes: the particularities of his sexual escapades, the ease of relieving other men of their girlfriends, his enemies, how proximate his enemies are, the tightness of his pants. And the production throughout is anarchic: video game and anime soundtracks, plenty of rough-edged low-end, the occasional elegiac pop flourish. His melodic approach borrows from pop-punk and R&B as well as the digitally decaying style popularized by Lil Wayne in the late 2000s (though in a couple of places here, he appears to lean back from the affectation, rapping with a more conventional tone). It is part old-fashioned bluster, part flamboyant style exercise, all rowdy thrill.Īs ever, Uzi’s rapping voice is a whimsical chirp. The sometimes blistering, sometimes disorienting “Eternal Atake” resolves these interests. Of the rap surrealists of the last few years - Young Thug, Playboi Carti, Gunna and so on - Uzi is perhaps the most pointed, the most familiar with the structuralists who preceded him, and the one who still harbors affection for them.
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