{"id":484001,"date":"2019-03-28T19:05:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T01:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=814835"},"modified":"2019-03-28T19:05:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T01:05:49","slug":"lil-uzi-vert-self-releases-new-song-amidst-label-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/lil-uzi-vert-self-releases-new-song-amidst-label-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Uzi Vert Self-Releases New Song Amidst Label Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lil-uzi-vert-free-uzi.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lil-uzi-vert\/\">Lil Uzi Vert<\/a> is back. On Thursday, the rapper released his first solo song since 2018\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lil-uzi-verts-new-patek-is-extremely-long-and-extremely-good-725724\/\">New Patek<\/a>.\u201d It also ends his early retirement from music, which he announced via Instagram in January.<\/p>\n<p>The new song \u2014 \u201cFree Uzi\u201d \u2014 arrives under strained circumstances. Since his announced \u201cretirement,\u201d Uzi has been embroiled in a cold war with his label heads, DJ Drama and Don Cannon, who signed him to their Generation Now imprint on Atlantic Records before he became one of the biggest rising stars on the planet. The conflict has ranged from the bizarre (trolling Drama on Instagram) to the savvy (aligning himself with Roc Nation management). Vert\u2019s aptly titled new song is the latest salvo. It\u2019s a three-minute deluge of punchlines over the beat to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8TqckF87f5Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">G Herbo\u2019s \u201cGangway.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The song arrived unannounced on SoundCloud and Tidal (an easy upload for an artist under Jay Z\u2019s management company). It will likely arrive on Spotify and Apple Music, the other major streaming services, soon. It does not, however appear on Tidal with an Atlantic Records attribution; a representative for Atlantic referred to the song\u2019s release as a \u201cleak\u201d in an email.<\/p>\n<p>However, a source close to the situation confirmed that Lil Uzi Vert released \u201cFree Uzi\u201d himself; the song also appears in the bio of his verified Instagram account. Moreover, according to the source, Atlantic Records is not allowing Uzi to release any music, and uploading the song was meant to circumvent the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Atlantic Records declined to comment on those claims.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lil-uzi-vert-free-uzi-814835\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lil Uzi Vert is back. On Thursday, the rapper released his first solo song since 2018\u2019s \u201cNew Patek.\u201d It also ends his early retirement from music, which he announced via Instagram in January. The new song \u2014 \u201cFree Uzi\u201d \u2014 arrives under strained circumstances. Since his announced \u201cretirement,\u201d Uzi has been embroiled in a cold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-484001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 04:37:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}