{"id":2445593,"date":"2019-06-21T09:11:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T15:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=850480"},"modified":"2019-06-21T09:11:20","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T15:11:20","slug":"lil-uzi-vert-hit-a-rut-then-slayerr-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/lil-uzi-vert-hit-a-rut-then-slayerr-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Uzi Vert Hit a Rut. Then \u2018Slayerr\u2019 Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For a brief moment it felt like Lil Uzi Vert<\/a> had lost a step. Though you wouldn\u2019t be able to tell from his enraptured fanbase, or the rap writers still reminiscing over his prolific 2016 assault, the Uzi that redefined the rockstar template with petulant, high energy odes to nihilism was receding. Label drama, management reorganization, and leaks all played their part in slowing the crown prince of rap\u2019s ascent. In fairness, his collaborative efforts over the past year were a wide swath of melodies, adlibs and charisma his peers couldn\u2019t contain, let alone compete with (I\u2019m looking at you, Lil Baby, Young Thug, Playboi Carti). But when left to his own devices, Uzi\u2019s solo material was often an uninspired graveyard of freestyled nonsense (\u201cFree Uzi\u201d<\/a>), redundant subjects (\u201cThat\u2019s A Rack\u201d<\/a>) and beats that carried the proceedings (\u201cSanguine Paradise\u201d<\/a>). The songs weren\u2019t bad, but they lacked dynamism that defined the Philadelphia rapper.<\/p>\n

That whole paragraph, about Uzi losing his way? We take it back. Part course-correction, part recalibration, \u201cSlayerr\u201d is Lil Uzi Vert, rejuvenated. Produced by TM88<\/a> and released on Friday, \u201cSlayerr\u201d is pure bombast; all reverb-drenched ad-libs crashing against wonky synths. \u201cShe\u2019s in love with a rager \/ She\u2019s a rockstar everybody said don\u2019t date her,\u201d screeches Uzi across the chorus, with a sincerity that should be applauded. The central conceit behind \u201cSlayer\u201d is goofy \u2014 there\u2019s a bad girl, Uzi likes her and has a plethora of horny ways to describe their chemistry \u2014 but he sells it on charisma alone.<\/p>\n

Uzi at the peak of his commercial power tends to channel rock \u2014 \u201cXO TOUR Llif3,\u201d \u201cThe Way Life Goes\u201d \u2014 while imbuing it with a his winning sense of chaos. \u201cSlayer\u201d proves that the brightest future for Uzi sounds like what he\u2019s already perfected.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a brief moment it felt like Lil Uzi Vert had lost a step. Though you wouldn\u2019t be able to tell from his enraptured fanbase, or the rap writers still reminiscing over his prolific 2016 assault, the Uzi that redefined the rockstar template with petulant, high energy odes to nihilism was receding. Label drama, management […]<\/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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 09:51:29","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":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}