How sobriety helped Lil Uzi Vert create ‘The Pink Tape’

‘X0 Tour Life’ rapper Lil Uzi Vert is among the extra prevalent rappers in modern hip-hop. Though his music has by no means been of the best high quality, the artist (actual identify Symere Woods) is undeniably charismatic and has all the time been barely endearing. 

The Philadelphia native as soon as revealed that he has smoked weed and dabbled with Percocet, Xanax and Lean through the years. However, for the creation of his 2023 album, Pink Tape, Woods unveiled that he determined to turn into utterly sober and noticed nice outcomes.

That mentioned, in an interview with TMZ whereas he was strolling via the streets of Beverly Hills, the ‘Just Wanna Rock’ emcee defined what going sober had carried out for his inventive course of regarding Pink Tape.

Woods had revamped 680 songs for the physique of labor and had carried out an unparalleled quantity of recording. It was initially Don Cannon who had informed the press that Uzi had determined to take away medication from his inventive course of.

The TMZ reporter requested Woods, “What was it like doing [the album] sober versus non-sober?” to which the Philadelphia rhymer responded, “I thought that my creative process wasn’t going to be the same because I wasn’t on drugs, no more, but like it was. Even better. I could think more clear.”

He continued, “Instead of my words slurring, even though that’s kind of cool, everything made sense. I didn’t just make random music and just play off the beats. I actually made songs with topics this time.”

Following the outcomes he yielded from sobriety, Woods inspired different artists who use narcotics as a inventive crutch to strive in any other case, telling them, “It’s the best thing to do. It’ll change your life. And you’ll look better.”

Regardless of the trouble, Lil Uzi Vert acquired widespread backlash following the discharge of his experimental rap-rock album, The Pink Tape. What Woods has delivered musically has been repeatedly underwhelming and extremely low-quality, and lots of discover themselves listening to a collection of muddy, poorly blended variations of tracks he has already made. 

Though the Luv Is Rage act has launched music for the reason that Pink Tape, it’s unclear whether or not or not he’s nonetheless on the sober path he took for his final album.