The rapper Lil Uzi Vert referred to as a “mythical creature”

Lil Uzi Vert is a self-proclaimed “rockstar”, and his cult fanbase has solely grown since he first emerged in 2016. As a part of XXL’s 2016 freshman class alongside Lil Yachty, Kodak Black, 21 Savage, and Denzel Curry, the artist (actual identify Symere Woods) immediately turned an icon and remains to be related at present.

Woods has a really distinctive model each sonically and aesthetically. He has overtly admitted he looked up to Marilyn Manson as a child and beloved Southern rap. Nonetheless, in an interview on The Fats Joe Present on Instagram Reside, the ‘Futsal Shuffle’ musician revealed extra of his musical influences. 

Talking with Fats Joe (actual identify Jose Cartagena), Woods unveiled, “The first rapper that I ever learned lyric for lyric was Mike Jones. That’s the first rapper I learned everything lyric for lyric, and I wanted to be like him.”

He continued, “I had a Boost Mobile, and my mom would give me $15, and I’d get phone cards and shit, and I would spend all my money calling Mike Jones’ number ’cause I wanted to talk to him…I remember the number by heart. To this day: 281-330-8004…I felt that star power from him. He had that star power.”

After Mike Jones, Uzi then started to sing Lil Wayne’s praises and admitted that when he was in highschool, women stated he appeared just like the New Orleans rapper, stating, “When I was younger girls would say I looked like Lil Wayne, so I would run with that. And I would wear fedoras, and I would wear the tight Polo tees with the skinnies, and wear the Vans and shit!”

Woods even went so far as to purchase a pretend ring, disclosing, “I ordered a fake piercing off Amazon, and it was a magnet, and I had it right here [below his lip on the right side], and I would wear it every day like I was Lil Wayne.”

Nonetheless, there was one emcee that Uzi thought of a “Mythical creature.” That lyricist was Younger Thug. Explaining why, Woods divulged, “I used to listen to I Came From Nothing, I Came From Nothing 2. Just all that shit. And I used to watch on YouTube when Young Thug used to perform at the little skating rink shits…The reason that he was such an influence to me [was] because he was almost like a mythical creature back then…I actually knew before the public. Not even from the public.”

The Luv Is Rage creator opened up about how he listened to Younger Thug earlier than he was an enormous identify and knew about his music when he was nonetheless acting at native golf equipment in Atlanta and insisted he was certainly one of the only people in Philadelphia who knew of Younger Thug earlier than he signed with a serious label. You may watch Fats Joe and Woods communicate beneath.