It’s been four years since Lil Uzi Vert’s much-anticipated second album ‘Eternal Atake’ landed, delivering on the promise shown throughout the rapper’s mixtapes and on their debut record ‘Luv Is Rage 2’. The intervening years have been a mess of dramas and beefs and it seems that all of that has become distracting — the terrible ‘Eternal Atake 2’ is the work of someone who has forgotten what made them such a hot commodity in the first place.
Straight off the bat, We Good exposes serious flaws. It sounds as though Uzi is rapping over an entirely different beat to the one that has ended up on the album. The resulting cacophony is a far cry from what we ought to get from a back-to-back-to-back chart topping artist.
Unfortunately, that trend continues throughout, from the abysmal The Rush to the head-scratchingly terrible Meteor Man and Space High.
The production is a mishmash of uninspired beats and pitiful mixing, while ill-conceived vocal modules bury the run-of-the-mill trap tropes that litter these tracks. The most confusing thing of all about ‘Eternal Atake 2’, though, is how this passed any sort of quality control.
A smorgasbord of producers had a hand in this record, but apparently nobody pulled Uzi up on his sloppy bars or the thought process behind tracks such as Perky Sex or the absolute howler She Stank. “She know that I’m so gothic, piercings all on me, but I cannot do no Prince Albert,” is a horrifyingly real lyric.
‘Eternal Atake 2’ was supposed to be the sequel that built on everything the original did so well, but instead of The Godfather Part II, we wound up with Exorcist II. Don’t call it a generational fall-off, this is self-sabotage on an unimaginable level.
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