Symere Bysil Woods (born July 31, 1995), known professionally as Lil Uzi Vert, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Often considered one of the early codifiers of emo rap, their music is characterized by melodic flows and cloud rap production, also bearing a style heavily influenced by genres like Indie Rock and Pop Punk.
Having been assigned male at birth, Woods changed their pronouns to "they/them" in 2022 and confirmed that they were non-binary the following year.
Discography:
- The Real Uzi (mixtape, 2014)
- LUV is Rage (mixtape, 2015)
- LUV vs the World (mixtape, 2016)
- The Perfect LUV Tape (mixtape, 2016)
- 1017 Vs The World (collaborative project with Gucci Mane, 2016)
- LUV is Rage 2 (album, 2017)
- Eternal Atake (album, 2020)
- LUV vs the World 2 (mixtape, 2020) (released as the deluxe version of Eternal Atake.)
- Pluto x Baby Pluto (collaborative project with Future, 2020)
- Red & White (EP, 2022)
- The Pink Tape (Album, 2023)
- 16+29 (collaborative project with Playboi Carti, TBA)
Push me to the edge, all my tropes are dead:
- Auto-Tune: They use it frequently in their music.
- Boastful Rap: Most of their music falls into this.
- Carbuncle Creature: For a while they wore a $24 million diamond on their forehead, until an incident at a festival where a fan pulled it out.
- Cover Version: "CS" from Pink Tape is a straight cover of "Chop Suey!" by System of a Down.
- Lonely at the Top: In a case of
Write What You Know, "XO Tour Llif3" sees them muse about how their newfound fame hasn't fixed their heartbreak over their recent breakup with Brittany Byrd. As a result, they try to numb the pain by taking Xanax pills. - Money Song: They have several songs where they mention their money (most notably the
often-quoted line "In reality, I'm 5'4", stand on my money, now I'm 6'6" from "Sanguine Paradise". It's even in the titles of some songs like "Money Spread" and "Money Longer". - Rap Rock: "Demon High" and the leaked blink-182 collaboration "Psycho".
- A good chunk of Pink Tape, including "Werewolf" with Bring Me the Horizon and "The End" with BABYMETAL.
- Sampling:
- "That Way" samples "I Want It That Way" by the Backstreet Boys.
- "Prices" samples "Way Back" by Travis Scott.
- "Celebration Station" samples "raindrops (an angel cried)" by Ariana Grande.
- "You Better Move" samples, of all things, the sounds from the Windows XP pinball game.
- "Because of You" with Future samples "Me4U" by A.G. Cook and Danny L. Harle.
- "The Way Life Goes" samples "Landslide" by Oh Wonder, and also gives the band a featuring credit for the sample.
- "Secure the Bag" samples a song from the Super Monkey Ball videogame franchise.
- "Endless Fashion" interpolates "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" by Eiffel 65.
- Shout-Out: The LUV mixtape trilogy is strongly inspired by Scott Pilgrim, the music video for "He Did It" is a full-blown AMV, "New Patek" samples the opening theme of Death Parade and even sees them drop a couple of references to Naruto, and they even own cars wrapped in anime character decals.
- Take That!: To Atlanta rapper Rich The Kid in their verse on the remix to Chicago rapper G Herbo's remix of "Who Run It" by Three 6 Mafia.
- True Companions: They are extremely close friends with Playboi Carti, the two often piggybacking and featuring in each other's material. This status was briefly called into question with "Sasuke", but Uzi has publicly denied dissing Carti in that song. They're also close friends with Chicago rapper G Herbo.
- Verbal Tic: They often say "yeah" and "what" in their songs.
