Two years ago today, we got one of the most hyped hip/hop albums of the 2010s
Let's appreciate the infamous Eternal Atake saga... Was it worth the wait???
July 16th 2018: Uzi first teases the title of the album on Twitter with a series of cryptic tweets.
July 31st 2018: Uzi reveals the album's original cover-art and confirms its title via Instagram.
September 18th 2018: New Patek drops after months of hype - it is presumed to be EA's first single.
September 2018 - October 2018: During this period 3 songs meant for Eternal Atake LEAK - Of Course, 1600 & Run it Up. They are all amazing. However their premature leak pushes the album back as Uzi is forced to dramatically revise it.
December 8th 2018: Uzi announces that the album is DONE and will drop very soon at a show in his hometown of Philly. . . This turns out to be CAP.
January 11th 2019: Uzi abruptly announces his retirement from music on his IG story.
March 13th 2019: On Instagram Uzi goes live and previews "Watch This". He also talked about how he wants to drop but the label isn’t letting him.
March 28th 2019: Uzi announces he is now signed under Roc Nation and drops the track "Free Uzi". "Free Uzi" would drop with a music video but was taken down everywhere except YouTube by the label.
March 31st 2019:Two new tracks - "That's A Rack & Money Keep Coming (Sanguine Paradise)" - LEAK after a successful online GroupBuy, Uzi promptly responds to the leak of these two songs:
April 9th 2019: "That's A Rack" & "Sanguine Paradise" officially release.
May 2019: At Rolling Loud Miami Uzi announces that the other night he finished the last song on the album and it is ready to drop.
November 28th-29th 2019: Uzi goes on a wild Twitter spree calling out loads of his musical collaborators including Don Cannon, DJ Drama, Maaly Raw, Forza and Playboi Carti. He also teases EA again.
December 13th 2019: After weeks of teasing, Uzi drops "Futsall Shuffle 2020", clarifying it as the first REAL single for EA.
January 4th 2020: Uzi would begin updating his IG to continue the rollout and would debut the girls in purple robes.
February 2nd 2020: Uzi announces that the album has 16 songs and introduces to his new persona "Renji" who was associated with orange and had a softer, more melodic music style.
February 28th 2020: Uzi says "Eternal Atake 2 weeks" on a live, however no one believes him due to the months/years of lying 🙄😔.
complex.com/music/2020/02/lil-uzi-vert-teases-eternal-atake-2-weeks
March 1st 2020: "That Way", EA's second-single, drops suddenly due to leakers getting access to the song the night before. The song samples the Backstreet Boys.
March 2nd - 3rd 2020: Uzi debuts THREE possible album covers and lets the fans pick which one to be the final cover.
March 4th 2020: The official trailer for the album releases.
March 5th 2020: Uzi announces that his "Renji" period is over and introduces us to his primary persona going forward... BABY PLUTO!
On the same day, Uzi also reveals the TRACKLIST
March 6th 2020: Despite fans thinking that the album was still originally slated for next week, Uzi SURPRISE DROPS THE ALBUM AT 9AM EST
ETERNAL ATAKE RELEASES!
Fastest 2 years of my life
Def wasnt worth the wait
Signaled Uzi going from one of the most exciting artists out to one thats struggling to keep up and evolve, mostly relying on social media gimmicks to keep his name hot
Still can’t believe bro went with the s***ty Reddit cover
Cover is the only good thing about this album
The hype was real for this lol but a shame the product didn’t live up to it
ok album
deluxe saved his ass
as much as i hate to admit it