Lil Uzi Vert famously follows no one on social media, but the artist briefly followed Adamn Killa on Instagram, apparently as a joke. When Adamn discovered that he had gained Uzi as a follower, the social media personality and rapper responded in an Instagram video.
“Lil Uzi, can we be best friends again?” Adamn repeatedly yelled in an empty theater, before explaining that Uzi followed and unfollowed him. “Does this mean we’re friends again?
"Lil Uzi, I got a song for you, bestie,” Adamn added before dancing to a song that appeared to be his own.
Uzi and Adamn were apparently once almost collaborators. According to Adamn, in 2021, he paid Uzi $20,000 for a verse on his song “Cheerio.”
Adamn said that when he didn’t receive Uzi’s contribution, he reached out to DJ Drama, who wanted another $50,000 to clear the verse. Adamn later released the song via YouTube.
Adamn spoke about the situation with Bootleg Kev in October.
“I was like, ‘I’m an independent artist,'" Adamn said. "I didn’t even try to get them to do it for free. I was like, ‘Can y’all do like $20,000, $10,000?’ They were like, ‘No.’
“That shit pissed me off for a little minute, so I stopped doing music for a year,” Adamn shared, explaining that he had a newborn at the time.
On Instagram, Adamn explained the situation in more detail.
The Chicago native shared that he “waited a year” to resolve the money problems with Uzi and Drama, but then he “just said fuck it” and released “Cheerio" himself online.
He said that he had “label offers” for the song, but the labels wanted Uzi to be in the music video—and Uzi wasn’t responding to Adamn’s messages.
“I used my savings on that Uzi feature with my baby on the way,” Adamn wrote. “The song couldn’t even get cleared. That was my last straw for music—$20,000 down the drain.”
Additional screenshots from Adamn’s text messages with the Philly artist show Adamn initially asking Uzi about the feature, and then Adamn asking Uzi about Drama wanting more money.
