Born on 31st July 1994 in Pennsylvania, Symere Bysil Woods is popularly known as Lil Uzi Vert. He is a worldwide known rapper who belongs to the country of the United States. Lil Uzi Vert gained initial recognition following the release of the commercial mixtape Luv Is Rage in 2015. He is also known as Sealab Vertical, Renji, Baby Pluto, Sasuke and Uzi London.
His genres are hip hop, trap, emo rap etc. He has been active from 2010 onwards. He works under the label of Atlantic, the generation now and Roc nation. His debut single was 'Money Longer' in 2016. His second studio album, Eternal Atake, was among the most successful albums in hip hop, and it peaked at number 1 on the Billboard 200. Lil Uzi Vert holds a lot of awards to his name and has been nominated several times. Some of them are noted below. They are -
- MTV video music award (won)
- Billboard music awards (nominated)
- Grammy awards (nominated)
- American music award (nominated)
Below are some of the famous Lil Uzi Vert Quotes.
I'm just doing me, and to me, that's what got me this far.
The above quote states that Lil Uzi vert trusted him and his dreams. It is due to this he had gathered all the fame and name. By trusting himself, he has become known to the world.
I stopped thinking; I just go out, and everything is in the moment. I just stop thinking and start moving - you just gotta be you.
One must not think too much and be in the present moment. Stop worrying about many things in your life and be focused on your goal. Start moving in that direction, and hence you will reach your goal.
If you're you, it doesn't matter if you're the most boring person in the world: someone will like you. You're not trying to be anyone else.
Try to be yourself. Don't copy others. He says that even if you are boring in nature, someone will like it, and you don't have to be bothered about your boredom and be free and calm.
I like to look cool and dress nice. Lil Uzi is a rock star. Just know that.
He says that he likes to look cool and wear new clothes. Since he is a rockstar, he is bound to look cool and dashing in front of the public.
One thing I could tell you is that I'm all over the place.
In this quote, he explains that he wants to be free, and nothing can hold him. He wants to be all over himself and does not allow anyone to bother him.
Some guy was just like, 'You rap fast, man. Like a little machine gun,' and from that moment, I was Lil Uzi.
Lil Uzi had a great talent in music. Since childhood, he used to rap songs. A person told him that you are a talented guy and have a unique talent. He said that you are a little boy full of potential and possibilities. Lil Uzi says that he recognized himself and started to work for the music from that day onwards.
I got different moods. Like, if I'm in a good mood, I listen to 'Up' by Thug. If I'm not in a good mood, I'll listen to 'King TROUP' - that's a real emotional one.
He says that he is full of emotions, and he has different modes and depending on that, he listens to different types of music. He says that when he is in a good mood, he likes to listen to charged and energetic music and if he is not in a good mood or feels sad, he listens to light and soothing music that relaxes his mind.
Continue reading some more Lil Uzi Vert Quotes...
There's enough money for everybody. See, I can't do what Yachty does. But then again, Yachty can't do what I do.
Lil Uzi says that not everybody has a lot of money to fulfil one's dream today. But if a person has talent, then he is bound to succeed.
I didn't want to rap; I was just a regular kid. My friend - his name is William Aston - we went to the same high school together, and he was rapping. He put out a freestyle over Chris Brown's 'Look at Me Now,' and it was fire, and the whole school went crazy.
He says that he was not much good at rap. Like a much regular kid, he did not like to rap songs. But his friend William was very famous due to his rapping skills in high school.
I enjoy 'down South' music.
Lil Uzi Vert says that he loves down south music, and listening to it makes him feel good.
I want to be as big as I can be. I want to be one of the biggest artists. I want to be remembered like, 'He is crazy. He is phenomenal.' I just want to be one of the biggest.
He says that he wants to be the biggest in the world in the field of music. He loves to name and fame. He says that he wants to be remembered as the biggest artist in the world so that people are crazy about him and say that he is a phenomenal person and the biggest artist in the music industry that history has ever known.
The thing that makes me different from any other rapper is that I usually talk real crazy in my songs.
Lil Uzi is a rapper who is not like the other rappers. He is a rapper who does not copy anyone, and he is famous because of his utterly truthful language. His songs comprise of real things which happened in the lives of the people.
I'm already popular in my city. I was just trying to get rich. Man, I'm not gonna lie to you; I didn't want to go back to school. I mean, my family was mad about that. Because, you know, you tell your family you want to rap, and they look at you like you're crazy.
Lil Uzi says that he did not want to go to school because he did not like that. His parents did not agree easily when he said that he did not want to go to school. It is very difficult for a parent to accept that his kid wants to become a rapper. But Lil Uzi was very adamant, and he wanted to be a rapper so that he could become popular in his city and become rich by singing songs.
Few more Lil Uzi Vert Quotes...
I don't know who I can compare my style too because I listen to everybody from old to new. If I hear stuff that I like, I'll gravitate to it and spin it in my way. I'm a mixture of a lot of people, honestly, but I'm myself.
Lil Uzi Vert has a unique style of rapping songs. He loves to hear new and old music, but at the end of the day, he is a mixture of all the people because what he sings is a composition of all the singers, and he tries to be himself and be original in all his songs.
One thing rap and rock have in common, a lot of it is focused on negativity. I like dark stuff.
The rap songs are not easy to sing because they are mostly focused on negativity, but Lil Uzi vert avoids it and tries to bring his original songs by avoiding negativity.
I just take rock songs and mix it with hip-hop and a little bit of R&B.
Lil Uzi Vert says that he loves singing rock songs and then mixing them with hip hop and by creating them in the original form of song composition.
Wherever you're from, you adapt to your environment. It made my music a little bit more explicit. Because I was in North Philly, I listened to State Property and stuff. Everything my dad listened to, I listened to.
Lil Uzi says that one must be able to adapt to one's environment. A person who adapts to the environment survives in this world. He says that he loved listening to his songs as his father also loved listening to them.
There are always people who are into the old way of doing things. I don't think it's a bad thing necessarily, but things change - nothing stays the same. If you can stay true to yourself, you're always going to be legendary.
A person should change with time. He must try to be able to adapt to new things in life. One must be himself, and if a person is true, the people in the world will follow him as soon as he becomes legendary in his field. In the beginning, people will not follow him. Some may even criticize him, but as soon as things changes in life, everything will settle down, and people will follow and recognize him.
Don't get me wrong: school is good and all, but school is way too slow for me. Like, super slow. So I didn't want to go. I wanted to learn on my own with real-life experiences.
For Lil Uzi Vert, the school was a super slow process. However, he did go to school but later dropped out, so he regards school as a boring process with limited talent. He wanted to explore himself. That was the basic reason that he dropped out of school, and he says that he wanted to learn from his own real-life experiences, which are much more important than the school teachings.
I just want to be successful. I'm not going to sit here and be like, 'I want to win a Grammy' or whatever; if that comes, that's awesome. But I just want to be successful and provide for my whole family and get my family out the hood.
He says that he wants to be successful in his field. He loves his music a lot. He loves recognition. He wants to be known in the world. He wants to win a Grammy and be successful so that he can provide his whole family with a decent living and a respectful position in your society.
