You consistently have the best answers on here.

Uzi was poppin for sure but Lil Yachty was deff there right beside him.

Savage too

I can understand this

cause uzi was never really that good stop lying to urselves

I think a rapper can only have an “era” when they go on immense feature runs. Uzi honestly doesn’t have any high charting features

What do you think is wrong about it

That’s why he’s the hero

It’s been Drake era since like 2011

Uzi has had the most successful SoundCloud to commercial music transition behind XXX (and X has sadly passed now so his relevancy to this discussion is restrictive)

Money Longer / XO / The Way Life Goes are probably his three biggest hits that spilled over into the mainstream conscious - All three of those tracks are contained within 2016 - 2017.

He stalled his career trajectory quite considerably post-LIR2 with the EA delay. New Patek made a lot of noise thanks to the snippet, but being a 6+ minute long song prevented it from turning into the big commercial hit that many believed it was poised to be. And while EA debuted to significant commercial success, it sadly didn't spawn an eponymous 'hit' or even really a quintessential Uzi song.

Plus, Uzi's own weirdness - his heavy anime influences, his piercings, his dress sense, his vocal style - prevent him from being accepted among the core hip/hop demographic. Although these are all authentic characteristics, I think for the average spectator these traits probably come across as quite gimmicky.

What is it with this dismissiveness about Uzi, his potential is actually crazy still…he’s wildly influential & I see people try to dismiss that…his last album did 200k+ in back to back weeks , went platinum in like a month despite people saying it sucks..☠️ , he’s one of the few ‘rappers’ who sound natural making pop music & he’s not afraid to rap

Uzi is a top artist of his generation/wave

But they also had XXX who was bigger/more impactful and Juice Wrld who had huge breakout hits

Also in his era they had Kodak and 21 Savage who were also more popping (streetwise)

Uzi a OG

It’s scary actually

Uzi >>>>>> Baby

This Baby “run” is the most overrated thing ever

People want to force another Wayne run so bad

Uzi era larger than life hence why it’s not an era

OP is lil uzi vert

From 2016 to 2019 he was one of the best in the game.

Idk how you could call it a 4-5 year run when he didn’t drop a project for 2.5 years at one point

Very little from his 30+ track deluxe and Future collab actually stuck for long last year

Lil Baby is more respected as a spitter

Whenever I hear someone say SoundCloud era the first artist I think of is Uzi

So I think that’s his era

If Lil Uzi didn’t have an era, then Lil Baby for god damn sure didn’t have one

This more so the YSL era

Perfectly said