Pink Tape (Lil Uzi Vert album)

The album was first teased by Uzi in December 2020, (later revealed to be the songs "Pluto to Mars" and "I Gotta") during a two-hour-long Instagram Live in which they previewed unreleased music and revealed they would be dropping a mixtape exclusively on SoundCloud.{{Cite web |last=Lee |first=Craig |date=2020-12-21 |title=Lil Uzi Vert Confirms Two Projects: 'Luv Is Rage 3' & 'Forever Young' {{!}} DailyRapFacts |url=https://dailyrapfacts.com/19376/lil-uzi-vert-confirms-luv-is-rage-3-forever-young/ |access-date=2023-06-20 |website=DailyRapFacts |language=en-US}} Uzi announced the album's title in an Instagram post on July 16, 2021.{{Cite web |last=Somajor |first=Kim |date=2021-07-20 |title=New Music,"Pink Tape" from Lil Uzi Could Be On the Way |url=https://thesource.com/2021/07/20/new-musicpink-tape-from-lil-uzi-could-be-on-the-way/ |access-date=2023-06-20 |website=The Source |language=en-US}} The title might be a reference to the $24 million pink diamond they had pierced into their forehead in February 2021.{{Cite web |last=Waite |first=Thom |date=2021-02-04 |title=Lil Uzi Vert got a $24 million diamond implanted in his forehead… why? |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/51837/1/lil-uzi-vert-got-a-24-million-diamond-implanted-in-his-forehead-why |access-date=2023-06-20 |website=Dazed |language=en}} On October 9, 2021, while attending a friend's wedding, Uzi revealed to a fan that the tape would be released before Halloween.{{Cite web |last=McCloud |first=Taylor |date=October 12, 2021 |title=Lil Uzi Vert Says "The Pink Tape" Will Drop Before Halloween |url=https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/377297-lil-uzi-vert-says-the-pink-tape-will-drop-before-halloween-news |access-date=2023-06-20 |website=HotNewHipHop |language=en}} They later went back on those statements on October 22, explaining to some fans on the street:

No, it's not [dropping next week]. Then it drop next week, and then it sounds like shit, and I gotta hear from like one-hundred-thousand people on the Internet, "This sucks!" So you gotta let me take my time... I'm taking my time so it won't suck.

Following the release of the lead and only single of the album, "Just Wanna Rock", on October 17, 2022, Uzi's manager, DJ Drama, suggested that the album is in its final stages while noting over 680 songs were considered for the album's tracklist.{{Cite web |last=Saponara |first=Michael |date=2023-02-22 |title=Lil Uzi Vert Has Recorded Almost 700 Songs For 'The Pink Tape,' Says Don Cannon |url=https://hiphopdx.com/news/lil-uzi-vert-recorded-almot-700-songs-pink-tape |access-date=2023-06-20 |website=HipHopDX |language=en}} In June 2023, Uzi noted that the album would be released the same month. On June 17, Uzi had taken to Instagram to post an alternate cover art to the project.{{Cite web |last=Fisher |first=Caroline |date=June 17, 2023 |title=Lil Uzi Vert Teases "The Pink Tape" Cover Art, Potential Collabs With Playboi Carti & Ken Carson |url=https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/688580-lil-uzi-vert-the-pink-tape-cover-art |access-date=2023-06-20 |website=HotNewHipHop |language=en}} Through an Instagram live on June 18 with Cenat, Uzi shared updates regarding the rollout and tracklist of the album as they noted that the tracklist would include twenty-six songs consisting of "Just Wanna Rock", and two bonus songs which they described as:{{Cite web |last=Cummings-Grady |first=Mackenzie |date=2023-06-19 |title=Lil Uzi Vert Reveals More Details About 'The Pink Tape' |url=https://hiphopdx.com/news/lil-uzi-vert-more-details-pink-tape |access-date=2023-06-20 |website=HipHopDX |language=en}}

special to me, that some people love that didn't really get to reach the day of light.

Not that many features, but it's the features that everybody think I should have...where I started is where imma finish.

{{Music ratings

| MC = 64/100{{Citation |title=Pink Tape by Lil Uzi Vert |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/pink-tape/lil-uzi-vert/ |access-date=July 24, 2023 |language=en}}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{Cite web |title=Lil Uzi Vert - The Pink Tape Album Reviews, Songs & More |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-pink-tape-mw0004032726 |access-date=6 August 2023 |publisher=AllMusic}}

| rev2 = Clash

| rev2score = 9/10{{cite web|last=Murray|title= Lil Uzi Vert – Pink Tape |url= https://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/lil-uzi-vert-pink-tape/|website=Clash|date=June 30, 2023}}

| rev3 = Financial Times

| rev3score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite web|last=Hunter-Tilney|title= Lil Uzi Vert: Pink Tape review — an exhausting litany of sexist jokes and brags |url= https://www.ft.com/content/a99c79f8-4175-452c-b31f-3faec733f13d |website= Financial Times |date=July 7, 2023}}

| rev4 = HipHopDX

| rev4score = 3.1/5{{Cite web |last=Fontes |first=Isaac |date=July 27, 2023 |title=Lil Uzi Vert {{!}} Pink Tape Album Review |url=https://hiphopdx.com/reviews/lil-uzi-vert-pink-tape-album-review |access-date=6 August 2023 |website=HipHopDX}}

| rev5 = Pitchfork

| rev5score = 5.7/10{{cite web|last=Matthew Ritchie|title= Lil Uzi Vert Pink Tape Album Review: A Sprawling, Unabashedly Uncategorizable Opus |url= https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/lil-uzi-vert-pink-tape/|website=Pitchfork|date=July 8, 2023}}

| rev6 = Slant Magazine

| rev6score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web|last=Attard|title= Lil Uzi Vert Pink Tape Review: A Sprawling, Unabashedly Uncategorizable Opus |url= https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/lil-uzi-vert-pink-tape-album-review/|website=Slant|date=July 3, 2023}}

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Pink Tape received generally positive reviews but polarized critics for its experimental sound. The review aggregator Metacritic assigned Pink Tape a weighted average score of 64, indicating "generally favorable" reviews, based on 5 critic reviews.

Robin Murray from Clash stated: "A work of quite stunning creativity, Pink Tape is well worth the wait. Long rumoured, frequently speculated upon, only their most dogged of fans would have expected such brilliance – this lengthy, thrill-a-minute release could well be their finest moment."{{cite web |last=Murray |first=Robin |date=2023-06-30 |title=Lil Uzi Vert – Pink Tape {{!}} Reviews |url=https://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/lil-uzi-vert-pink-tape/ |access-date=2023-06-30 |website=Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews }}

Clayton Purdom from Rolling Stone stated: "Their long-awaited Pink Tape finds an artist still relentlessly barreling forward, leaving everyone in the dust–including, quite possibly, many listeners. Pink Tape is a 26-track, 90-minute gauntlet in which Uzi's maximalism finds its fullest expression imaginable: galaxy-smashing rap-rock. Everything is as big as it can be. Uzi samples a WWE theme song by CFO$ at length, interpolates Eiffel 65's 'Blue', and covers System Of A Down's 'Chop Suey' pretty much verbatim. It's superhero theme music from an anime-worshiping genre apostate — an album of light-cycle chases and samurai clashes set to Def Leppard shredding."{{Cite magazine |last=Purdom |first=Clayton |date=2023-06-30 |title=Lil Uzi Vert Just Wants to Rock on the Sprawling 'Pink Tape' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/lil-uzi-vert-pink-tape-1234780210/ |access-date=2023-06-30 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}

Discussing the album, reviewers from Complex praised Pink Tape for its creativity and ambitious scope, but criticized the album as having inconsistent song quality as well as genre influences that were not combined cohesively.{{Cite web|url=https://www.complex.com/music/a/j-mckinney/lil-uzi-vert-pink-tape-review |title=First Impressions Of Lil Uzi Vert's New Album 'Pink Tape' |first1=Jessica |last1=McKinney |first2=Jordan |last2=Rose |first3=Eric |last3=Skelton |first4=Kameron |last4=Hay |publisher=Complex |date=June 30, 2023 |access-date=July 5, 2023}}

Matthew Ritchie from Pitchfork stated: "At 26 tracks, Pink Tape is bloated and messy, with occasional flashes of excellence between grating screamo misfires and unremarkable songs that feel like retreads of Playboi Carti or Trippie Redd hits. It undermines Uzi's sterling record and acts as a cautionary tale about undiscerning genre adventures; instead of driving into exciting new terrain, it seems like they are just veering in the wrong direction."{{Cite web |title=Lil Uzi Vert: Pink Tape |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/lil-uzi-vert-pink-tape/ |access-date=2023-07-08 |website=Pitchfork |language=en-US}}

In the United States, Pink Tape debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, opening with 167,000 album-equivalent units consisting of 11,000 album sales and 154,000 streaming units (calculated from the 210.39 million on-demand streams the album's tracks received). It became Uzi's third number-one album in the country and the third-largest opening week of 2023 at the time. Pink Tape is the first hip hop album of 2023 to top the Billboard 200; marking the longest wait in a calendar year for a rap album to lead the chart since Cypress Hill's Black Sunday (1993). It also ended the chart's longest gap between number-one rap albums in almost 30 years, with Metro Boomin's Heroes & Villains (2022) being the last hip hop album to lead the chart prior to Pink Tape's debut.{{Cite magazine |last=Caulfield |first=Keith |date=2023-07-10 |title=Lil Uzi Vert Scores Third No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 With 'Pink Tape' |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/lil-uzi-vert-pink-tape-number-one-billboard-200-debut-1235369002/ |access-date=2023-07-10 |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Fu |first=Eddie |date=2023-07-10 |title=Lil Uzi Vert topples Morgan Wallen with first No. 1 rap album of 2023 |url=https://consequence.net/2023/07/lil-uzi-vert-morgan-wallen-no-1-album/ |access-date=2023-07-10 |website=Consequence |language=en-US}} 18 of the album's 26 tracks debuted on the Billboard Hot 100, helping Uzi become the fourteenth artist in the chart's history to log 100 career entries on the survey.{{Cite magazine |last=Zellner |first=Xander |date=2023-07-10 |title=Lil Uzi Vert Debuts 18 Songs on Hot 100 From New Album 'Pink Tape,' Reaches Historic Milestone |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/lil-uzi-vert-18-songs-hot-100-from-pink-tape-milestone-1235369128/ |access-date=2023-07-10 |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Pink Tape track listing

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| title1 = Flooded the Face

| writer1 = {{hlist|Symere Woods|Donald Cannon|Harold Harper, Jr.|Robert Remming}}

| extra1 = {{hlist|Don Cannon|Harper}}

| length1 = 3:12

| title2 = Suicide Doors

| writer2 = {{hlist|Woods|Alejandra Ghersi Rodríguez|Brandon Veal|Leon Balint|Thant Tayzar}}

| extra2 = {{hlist|Arca|Brandon Finessin|Leqn|Yugen}}

| length2 = 4:19

| title3 = Aye

| note3 = featuring Travis Scott

| writer3 = {{hlist|Woods|Jacques Webster II|Benjamin Saint-Fort|Veal|Benjamin Thomas}}

| extra3 = {{hlist|Bnyx|Brandon Finessin|Ben Thomas}}

| length3 = 3:27

| title4 = Crush Em

| writer4 = {{hlist|Woods|Cannon|Ebony Oshunrinde|Tim Gomringer|Kevin Gomringer|Jordan Ortiz|Pepijn Baltus|Charles Ocansey}}

| extra4 = {{hlist|Cannon|WondaGurl|Cubeatz|Oogie Mane|Duce|Forthenight}}

| length4 = 2:45

| title5 = Amped

| writer5 = {{hlist|Woods|Daniel Perez|1wakeupp|Jkari|Zachary Kupiec|Landers|TP13}}

| extra5 = {{hlist|Bugz Ronin|1wakeupp|Jkari|Zkup|Landers|TP13}}

| length5 = 2:53

| title6 = x2

| writer6 = {{hlist|Woods|Kenyatta Frazier, Jr.|Clif Shayne}}

| extra6 = {{hlist|Ken Carson|Clif Shayne}}

| length6 = 3:54

| title7 = Died and Came Back

| writer7 = {{hlist|Woods|Veal|Balint|Sense1god}}

| extra7 = {{hlist|Brandon Finessin|Leqn|Sense1god}}

| length7 = 3:00

| title8 = Spin Again

| writer8 = {{hlist|Woods|Veal|Michael Rodrigues}}

| extra8 = {{hlist|Brandon Finessin|Swvsh}}

| length8 = 1:37

| title9 = That Fiya

| writer9 = {{hlist|Woods|Veal|ZeeGoinXrazy|Sixthursdays}}

| extra9 = {{hlist|Brandon Finessin|ZeeGoinXrazy|Sixthursdays}}

| length9 = 2:34

| title10 = I Gotta

| writer10 = {{hlist|Woods|Veal|Tobias Dekker|Anton Mendo}}

| extra10 = {{hlist|Brandon Finessin|Outtatown|Star Boy}}

| length10 = 2:53

| title11 = Endless Fashion

| note11 = featuring Nicki Minaj

| writer11 = {{hlist|Woods|Onika Maraj|D. Perez|Ivison Smith|Gianfranco Randone|Massimo Gabutti|Maurizio Lobina}}

| extra11 = {{hlist|Bugz Ronin|Ike Beatz}}

| length11 = 3:36

| title12 = Mama, I'm Sorry

| writer12 = {{hlist|Woods|D. Perez|Robert Richardson|Luiz Bonfá|Tyree Pittman|Keith Cozart|Wouter De Backer|Cameron Thomaz|Curtis Jackson III}}

| extra12 = {{hlist|Bugz Ronin|Bobby Raps}}

| length12 = 3:30

| title13 = All Alone

| writer13 = {{hlist|Woods|Cannon|Martin Pitt|Quincy Riley|Lyle LeDuff}}

| extra13 = {{hlist|Cannon|Pitt tha Kid|Riley|LeDuff}}

| length13 = 3:42

| title14 = Nakamura

| writer14 = {{hlist|Woods|Veal|LeDuff|Smith|Gregg Wattenberg|Michael Lauri|John Alicastro}}

| extra14 = {{hlist|Brandon Finessin|LeDuff|Ike Beatz}}

| length14 = 3:17

| title15 = Just Wanna Rock

| writer15 = {{hlist|Woods|Mohamed Camara|Javier Mercado}}

| extra15 = {{hlist|MCVertt|Synthetic}}

| length15 = 2:03

| title16 = Fire Alarm

| note16 = featuring Snow Strippers

| writer16 = {{hlist|Woods|Britanny Fousheé|Cannon|Graham Perez|Tatiana Schwaninger|Gaspard Augé|Xavier de Rosnay}}

| extra16 = {{hlist|Cannon|Snow Strippers}}

| length16 = 3:05

| title17 = CS

| writer17 = {{hlist|Woods|Frederick Rubin|Serj Tankian|Daron Malakian|Thomas}}

| extra17 = {{hlist|Rick Rubin|Serj Tankian|Daron Malakian|Thomas}}

| length17 = 3:32

| title18 = Werewolf

| note18 = featuring Bring Me the Horizon

| writer18 = {{hlist|Woods|Oliver Sykes|Matt Kean|Lee Malia|Matt Nicholls|Jordan Fish|Evil Twin}}

| extra18 = {{hlist|Bring Me the Horizon|Evil Twin}}

| length18 = 3:59

| title19 = Pluto to Mars

| writer19 = {{hlist|Woods|Veal|Deckard3000}}

| extra19 = {{hlist|Brandon Finessin|Deckard3000}}

| length19 = 4:06

| title20 = Patience

| note20 = featuring Don Toliver

| writer20 = {{hlist|Woods|Caleb Toliver|D. Perez|Thomas|Derek Anderson|Matthew Spatola}}

| extra20 = {{hlist|Bugz Ronin|Thomas|206Derek|Matty Spats}}

| length20 = 4:22

| title21 = Days Come and Go

| writer21 = {{hlist|Woods|Cannon|Thomas Lumpkins}}

| extra21 = {{hlist|Cannon|Tommy Parker}}

| length21 = 4:17

| title22 = Rehab

| writer22 = {{hlist|Woods|Fousheé|Cannon|Veal|Roman Zakharov|Qqqu1ncy|D. Perez}}

| extra22 = {{hlist|Cannon|Brandon Finessin|Breezey Muzik|Qqqu1ncy|Bugz Ronin}}

| length22 = 4:05

| title23 = The End

| note23 = featuring Babymetal

| writer23 = {{hlist|Woods|Suzuka Nakamoto|Moa Kikuchi|Momoko Okazaki|Key Kobayashi|Daisuke Ehara}}

| extra23 = {{hlist|Kobametal|}}

| length23 = 3:07

| title24 = Zoom

| note24 = bonus track

| writer24 = {{hlist|Woods|Wesley Glass|Ryan Vojtesak}}

| extra24 = {{hlist|Wheezy|Charlie Handsome}}

| length24 = 2:46

| title25 = Of Course

| note25 = bonus track

| writer25 = {{hlist|Woods|Ortiz|Amir Sanders|Brady Porter|Aidan Crotinger}}

| extra25 = {{hlist|Oogie Mane|Forza|Kado|Halfway}}

| length25 = 3:28

| title26 = Shardai

| note26 = bonus track

| writer26 = {{hlist|Woods|D. Perez|John Ross|Kyle Emordi|Smith}}

| extra26 = {{hlist|Bugz Ronin|John Ross|ISOBeats|Ike Beatz}}

| length26 = 3:21

| total_length = 87:03

}}

Notes

• "Fire Alarm" and "Rehab" feature uncredited vocals by Fousheé

Sample credits

• "Nakamura" samples the song "The Rising Sun" by CFO$, which is the ring entrance theme of professional wrestler Shinsuke Nakamura for whom the song is named.
• "Crush Em" contains an interpolation of the song "Myron" by Lil Uzi Vert.
• "Endless Fashion" contains an interpolation of the song "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" by Eiffel 65.
• "Mama I'm Sorry" contains interpolations of "Somebody That I Used To Know", as performed by Gotye and Kimbra and "Hate Bein' Sober" by Chief Keef featuring 50 Cent and Wiz Khalifa.
• "Fire Alarm" contains a sample of the song "Stress" by Justice.
• "CS" is a cover of the song "Chop Suey!" by System of a Down.

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