Lil uzi vert shape of you lyrics

Songfacts®:

• Here, Vert grapples with suicidal thoughts, relationship issues and betrayal. He recalls during the hook a conversation he had with his longtime girlfriend Brittany Byrd, at a time when it was rumored she was cheating on him. Byrd threatened to kill herself if the rapper ended their relationship.

  I don't really care if you cry
  On the real you should've never lied
  Should've saw the way she looked me in my eyes
  She said 'Baby, I am not afraid to die.'

• The song title comes from The Weeknd's Starboy: Legend of the Fall 2017 world tour, where Lil Uzi Vert was the opening act.

• The bassy and upbeat beat was supplied by TM88, who is one of the leading members of the Atlanta-based record production and songwriting team 808 Mafia. TM88's other production credits include Rich Gang's "Tapout" and 2 Chainz's "Gotta Lotta."

• The song gained a significant amount of heat thanks to the viral #LilUziVertChallenge. The genesis of these videos was a NYFW event, during which the Philly rapper demonstrated some of his funky moves, including his signature shoulder shimmy. After fans caught wind of the footage they began showing off their best Uzi half-shimmy dance impressions soundtracked by this tune.

• Instead of using a traditional studio setup, TM88 mixed and mastered the track by listening to it through an Apple Beats Pill speaker.

• The song's vibe came from a slower beat TM88 had made with his producer JW Lucas, which he'd been sitting on for three years. It served as the foundation for number six of a pack of 20 beats that TM88 then sent to Uzi Vert.

  "The beat ended up not traveling nowhere," he told Genius. "It was one of them ones where I didn't send it out, and I'm pretty sure he was sending it out, but it didn't reach. But, I was sitting there and I was like 'Man, let me sample myself.' I heard the beat and I was like, 'Damn. It's slow as s--t. It's like R&B. Man, f--k!' The slower beats don't go to the clubs. I know Uzi wanna go to the clubs. So I was like, 'Let me make a pack of uptempo 148 to 155.'"

• This won for Song of the Summer at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards. AT the ceremony, Lil Uzi Vert joined Ed Sheeran to perform this song and Sheeran's "Shape Of You."

• Directed by fashion designer Virgil Abloh, the song's music video features grim images like Lil Uzi Vert spitting blood, zombie girls, and a dead woman in a bathtub filled with her own blood. There are also appearances by the Weeknd and NAV. (Uzi was on tour with The Weeknd at the time of the song's first appearance on SoundCloud.) The final part of the clip matches the song's fatal lyrics.

• The Genius community voted this their Best Song of 2017. They said:

  "Don't let the airy TM88-produced instrumental distract you from the song's themes of drug addiction, mental health, and failed relationships. Uzi's morbid hook was one of 2017's biggest earworms, setting up the ironic juxtaposition of crowds gleefully belting out the lyrics 'Push me to the edge. All my friends are dead.'"

• Lil Uzi Vert recorded a sequel for this song in 2020 titled "P2" Both tunes are the outro tracks of their respective albums.

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The Cardi B reaction was perfect

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that's gonna be a huge meme (if it isn't already)

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Uzi was high as hell lmaoooo

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I can never tell when uzi's lip syncing and when he's not..

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I guess that's a good thing.

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Ed Sheeran had no business singing this song

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I thought it sounded great. but hey, Im white, what do I know?

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this one definitely not for the culture

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I love the way uzi dances

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got that lil shoulder roll

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Oh my god, this was fucking terrible

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Ed Sheeran was shit. When Uzi finally got to rap alone it was pretty good. But fuck off ginger

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Agree. But Ed And Stormzy was pretty good. So Ed isn't too bad with rappers.

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Wow didn't realize Uzi sounded so good live. Those vocals were clean.

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Idk about y'all, but I love this. Lol the absurdity behind the of idea of having Ed Sheeran and Lil Uzi Vert perform a remix of Shape of You and a cover version of XO TOUR Llif3 is just great to me.

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Why my nigga Pete Wentz look like he mad af but bobbing his head lmao

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Uzi killed his verse on Shape Of You

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I would actually want to hear a real studio version of his verse on Shape of You, that shit was tight, his melodies were dope and his flow matched the rhythm of the song.

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i wonder why Uzi doesn't really "perform", you'd think in the age of Travis Scott most of these dudes who can't sing live would just embrace autotune

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