Hello, everyone! Welcome back to my website (or welcome, if you’re new), and today I’m reviewing the newest Lil Uzi Vert album, Pink Tape.

So, this is the first Lil Uzi Vert album I’ve ever listened to, but I do know the song, “XO TOUR Llif3”, a fantastic song that is incredibly dark and eerie, with some incredibly deep lyrics and a mood that really fits with the lyrics. But I wasn’t sure what to expect going into this new album which is almost an hour and a half!

And … well, after giving it multiple listens, I can’t say it’s really my thing. It’s an album that has some standout moments, but considering how long it is and how much of it just doesn’t work for me at all, I found this mostly to be a slog to get through.

Before I talk about these songs, I just want to say that analyzing lyrics isn’t one of my biggest strengths as a music reviewer, so take my interpretations with a grain of salt.

“Flooded The Face” is a generic opener with a bunch of lyrics that, as far as I can tell, have pretty much nothing to them … just a bunch of stuff about having a lot of money, and other generic lyrics, including the line, ‘I fuck your bitch on cam like a porno flick.’ And it’s not even like I find the instrumental interesting.

“Suicide Doors” has a lot of the same problems lyrically, and it has the line, ‘I’m so rockstar, I might try cocaine.’ First of all, that’s a bad idea. Second, it’s really cringey, and like most of the lyrics here, I don’t find it at all interesting. But that being said, the instrumental does have some power to it, and Uzi’s vocals are quite impressive here!

“Aye” features the terrible line, ‘My bitch don’t want me no more, now I look at her like, ‘ho’,’ and also has an underwhelming Travis Scott verse. The hook also is pretty annoying with the repetitive, ‘Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!’

“Crush Em” starts off sounding okay, but the super repetitive chorus starts to get annoying, and the instrumental doesn’t really do much for me.

If you want to know of a song I do like, that would be the next song, “Amped”, which I think is a total banger! I love the ferocious vocals from Uzi, and the melodic instrumental sounds really good, too! I think this might fit into the ‘rage’ genre, and it’s a style of music that I’m often not a huge fan of, but every once in a while I’ll hear a track like this, and I think this sounds great!

Right after that is “x2”, which features a nice instrumental, but outside of that there’s not much about it that really sticks with me. But I at least like it better than the next track.

I’m talking about “Died and Came Back”, which not only has flows that bore me and an instrumental that doesn’t do much for me, either, but there’s a lot here lyrically that I don’t like. I mean, right near the start, there’s the line, ‘Rigatoni is not spaghetti’ … I mean, that is true, I will say that …

But then there’s a line where they say that drugs got them ‘deady’, which might mean dead? I’m not sure about that, but if that is what that line means, that worries me. Is Lil Uzi Vert okay?

And then there’s the line, ‘You said you fucked my bitch, I fucked your bitch too,’ and then later in the song there’s the line, ‘Don’t cheat on my bitch, but I still got me two phones.’ I mean, there are different ways these could be interpreted, but it feels like those two parts of the song contradict each other. 

“Spin Again” starts with a vocal that reminds me of “Amped”, but the instrumental here just feels annoyingly repetitive. “That Fiya” I like a bit better, mostly because of the vocal melody in the chorus.

But then there’s “I Gotta”, which features some awkward production in which the instrumental sounds kind of awkward … I’m not sure how to explain it, but I don’t enjoy listening to it.

But “Endless Fashion” is much, MUCH worse. First of all, there’s an interpolation of “Blue (Da Ba Dee)” by Eiffel 65 … and while I love “Blue (Da Ba Dee)”, I think it sounded terrible when David Guetta and Bebe Rexha interpolated it last year, and I think it sounds terrible when Lil Uzi Vert interpolates it here. The instrumental sounds really annoying with the interpolation and a trap beat that does pretty much nothing for me, and I think Nicki Minaj probably has the worst guest feature here, which includes the line, ‘I got a Republican doctor, made my ass great again, MAGA,’ as well as ‘bitch don’t make me rag you, pasta.’ And then Nicki refers to Lil Uzi Vert with the wrong pronoun … and I get that mistakes happen, but did no one notice before the song was released?

Then there’s “Mama, I’m Sorry”, and I think there’s a little more to this one, with the lyrics about addiction to drugs, but I don’t like the way this song sounds at all, with a really annoying chorus melody and an instrumental that really bores me, and there’s also the terrible line, ‘My bitch so bad, yeah, my bitch, she a felon.’

“All Alone” has pretty good production but not much about it that really sticks with me outside of that, but “Nakamura” is the next big highlight of the album for me, with some really good vocal melodies and a fantastic instrumental! This song has an epic sound to it that I think really works!

“Just Wanna Rock” was released as the lead single, and while I think it sounds pretty good, it also just feels unfinished. I wish there were more to it.

I’m not really sure what’s holding me back from liking “Fire Alarm” more, but something kind of feels missing, even though I do really like some parts of the instrumental.

And then there’s a cover of “Chop Suey!” by System Of A Down (this version is titled “CS”). So far, from what I’ve seen, it seems like a lot of people really don’t like this cover … and that includes me. This cover is awful in my opinion! Especially the chorus in which the melody isn’t nearly as strong as the original if you ask me … I honestly kind of can’t believe this exists.

“Werewolf” is a heavy rock song that features Bring Me The Horizon, and while I have a lot of respect for the amount of variety on this album, this song doesn’t work for me at all. The vocals sound really quiet in the mix, and the drums sound really awkwardly produced, with a strangely underpowered but annoyingly snappy feel to them.

“Pluto to Mars” goes back to a mellower sound, and while I find this track less annoying than “Werewolf”, there’s still not much about that I really like. Also, there’s this annoying sound in the background here that kept making me think I was hearing a siren outside, and then I’d realize it’s the song.

“Patience” is an emotional song in which Uzi apologizes for their mistakes in a relationship, and I like the chorus melody, but I’m not as big a fan of Don Toliver’s bridge here.

And then there’s “Days Come and Go”, which is another emotional track which seems to be about the struggles of fame, and how people may think that everything is going perfectly for Uzi because they’re a celebrity, but they’re a human just like the rest of us are. And there’s a lot about the song that I like … but it also features one of the worst lines I’ve heard all year, in which they mention people stalking their significant other and then they say, ‘But I would too if that was not my chick.’

“Rehab” shows Uzi thanking people who helped them with their rehab, and it’s easily one of my favourite songs on this album. I also really like “The End” featuring BABYMETAL, probably the hardest-hitting rock song here, which the great drumming and I love the line when Uzi says, ‘I’m not from this Earth, I’m from outer space. I landed here just to drop the Pink Tape.’ I also love the catchy chorus here!

Then there are a few songs listed as bonus tracks, which I’m going to include as part of the version of the album I’m reviewing and rating, as I’m not sure whether or not there’s another version which doesn’t include them. Anyway, what do I think of these songs?

Well, I like “Zoom”, which isn’t anything mind blowing or anything, but it’s got a nice trap snare, and the production sounds really good. And I like the hook on this one, too. “Of Course” doesn’t really do much for me, but I don’t dislike it, either. And finally there’s “Shardai”, which I like the sound of, but it also features these lyrics: ‘Been trappin’ for three days, I smell like B-O. I ain’t take no shower, bitch, I shower in dough.’ I’m not really sure what to say about that line other than that it’s quite bad in my opinion.

Also, there’s a really awkward pause at the end of “Zoom” before “Of Course” starts, where it’s just silence for over half a minute, and it throws off the pacing for me.

So, yeah, those are my thoughts on this twenty-six-song album!

I have a lot of respect for the variety of music on this album, but overall I just find a lot of it boring, and there are some parts of the album I strongly dislike, too … but it goes have some great moments, so I’ll give it a very light 4.5/10. If you don’t feel like listening to the entire thing—which I probably wouldn’t really recommend anyway—I’d recommend listening to a few tracks (maybe pick some random tracks here) and if you like what you’re hearing, then listen to the whole thing, and otherwise don’t. But that’s just my recommendation. Feel free to let me know your thoughts in the comment section, and I’ll be back with more reviews soon!

Final Thoughts
Rating: 4.5/10
Favourite Tracks: “Amped”, “Nakamura”, “Rehab”, “The End”
Least Favourite Tracks: “Died and Came Back”, “Endless Fashion”, “Mama, I’m Sorry”, “CS”, “Werewolf”