Lil Uzi Vert clarified that they don’t have any problems with Ebro — even though the veteran radio personality doesn’t believe they reached rockstar status. We sat down with Uzi ahead of their latest project, Eternal Atake 2, to talk about the project and their career. While reflecting on their past interviews such as their viral encounter with Darden on Hot 97 in 2016, Uzi revealed what they think of Ebro now.
“Ebro is a good guy, that’s my mans,” Uzi said. “I got a different respect for people that's in hip-hop and anybody who's my elder. So he has the right, and is entitled to his opinion because he's definitely a staple in music no matter what…When I say rockstar, he’s looking at the fireworks, he looking at all that stuff. Not the lifestyle, and I understand that. And I wasn't, especially me being younger, I wasn't able to explain exactly what I meant.”
Ahead of the project’s release, Uzi teased a tracklist that appeared to have a song called “Chill Ebro” on it only days after Ebro gave his perspective about the rapper when speaking on a panel. “I love Uzi Vert," he said. "I feel like he still hasn’t become the rockstar he said he would become, though. I’m still waiting,” the radio personality claimed.
“Maybe I took it literal, but the rockstars that I know, they were selling out MetLife Stadium,” Ebro continued. “They could sell out Madison Square Garden eight, 10 times. They got hits on the radio, everywhere. Songs is everywhere.”
Elsewhere during our recent conversation with Uzi, the rapper spoke up about whether they’d be quitting music after the release of their fabled project, Luv Is Rage 3. Despite their previous claims that they would leave, Uzi revealed now that “quitting” something they’ve devoted their life to isn’t quite in the cards anymore.
“It’s crazy because I was very misinformed about what quitting music is,” Uzi said. “If I'm over here really letting you know that my life is music, it's like, why would I sell myself short on a blessing or whatever I can call it? I'm just going to let life keep life-ing.”
