Lil Uzi Vert

Symere Woods was born on July 31 1994 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States and is an American rapper. When Symere was in highschool he worked at a small store as a stocking boy, he hated his job and wanted to do something else with his life. A friend of him got a lot of positive commentary of people at his school for the rapping skills his friend had. Symere wanted that to and thought rapping isn’t that hard and started practicing a lot. He made a Soundcloud account and started posting songs on there. After a while, he started to grow a fansbase who liked his songs.

Don Cannon

Donald Earl Cannon saw one of Lil Uzi Vert songs and really liked the sound of that. Don Cannon is an American Hiphop producer and tipped the rapper at record label Atlantic Records. Lil Uzi Vert signed a deal with the label. The rapper got well known by a big audience after releasing his song “Money Longer”. The song became a big success with more then 109 million views on Youtube.

One to Watch

Lil Uzi Vert is a rapper to watch out for. He came up in a very short time period and will have a good future in Hiphop, we think. From 2014 to 2016 he had a relationship with Brittany Burd, the girl who starred in the “Money Longer” video.

Lil Uzi Vert style

Lil Uzi Vert has a different style then most rappers or artists. He has had purple hair, blue hair, red hair and his clothing is also very eccentric. He says Marilyn Manson is one of his biggest inspirations in style and his music inspirations are: Asap Rocky, Pharrell Williams, Kanye West, Young Thug, Wiz Khalifa and Lil Wayne. He dropped a freestyle verse with Asap Rocky on 4 different beats and already worked with Pharell whilliams aswell. The sound of the music Lil Uzi makes is often compared with rock music or called emo rap. Lil Uzi has had one Billboard Hot 100 single together with Migos with their track called “Bad and Boujee”