Over time, Lee has come to fill a unique role for Uzi that she’s referred to as “ creative production engineering,” handling everything from sourcing beats, recording, adding additional production, sequencing songs, mixing, and more. But, following her on Twitter over these past few years, what stands out most is seeing the hard work behind the glamour of recording one of rap’s most eccentric stars-from sleeping on studio floors to lugging tons of equipment around the country. Recorded over a two and a half year period, the road to the album’s completion was a difficult journey that involved Uzi saying the album was finished multiple times, very publicly expressing his displeasure with his labels, and recording a lot of incredible music.Īlong the way, Lee was interactive with Uzi’s fanbase on social media and they came to view her as a reliable narrator in what was otherwise, from the outside looking in, a constantly confusing process. But working on Uzi’s latest project, his long-awaited sophomore album Eternal Atake, was an entirely different undertaking. Since she first began working with Uzi in 2015, Lee-who has also worked with Gucci Mane, Young Thug, Migos, Playboi Carti, Donald Glover, and more-has been behind the boards for every single one of his projects, bringing the most out of the rapper’s soaring vocals. Even though almost everything else has changed for the Philly rapper, one constant has been his go-to engineer, Kesha Lee. 1 song, brought pop punk to the rap world, led SoundCloud’s upstart wave into the mainstream, and become a household name himself. He’s delivered the most memorable verse on a No. 6 on the global chart with 4.691 million streams.Over the last five years, Lil Uzi Vert has cycled through flows, hairstyles, and living locations. Spotify “Baby Pluto” topped the stateside streaming chart with 3.364 million plays and debuted at No. Every song on the album besides “Futsal Shuffle 2020” (which appears as a bonus track) debuted in the Top 20 on U.S. Even with a truncated first day, the album earned 47.7 million Spotify streams, the third-biggest debut of 2020. (341 million).Īfter two years of false starts, missed release dates and public feuds, Uzi surprise-released Eternal Atake last Friday.
With his latest feat, Uzi outpaces the streaming debuts of several other heavy hitters, including Drake’s More Life (385 million), Travis Scott’s Astroworld (349 million) and Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. The only other albums to post better streaming debuts than Eternal Atake are Post Malone’s Beerbongs & Bentleys (431 million) and Drake’s Scorpion (746 million). That’s the biggest streaming week for an album since 2018, when Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V debuted with 433 million streams.
Uzi’s new album collected 278,000 of its 288,000 first-week units from streaming, which translates to an astonishing 400 million on-demand audio streams.
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