The Long, Bumpy Road to Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atake
The rollout for Lil Uzi Vert’s perpetually delayed Eternal Atake has had almost everything: a coffee-shop brawl, a short-lived retirement, beef with the living members of a suicide cult, a hashtag-turned-redemption-single (“Free Uzi”). What it hasn’t had—until today—is a new album. Considering Uzi’s runaway popularity and promise, the delay seems unaccountable. Ask Uzi and it’s the label’s fault; ask the label and it’s Uzi’s. It’s been hard to keep track of the back and forth, but now Eternal Atake is here. Below is a timeline of the melodrama that took place in the lead-up to the album.