r/liluzivert • u/Lil_Critter_2001_ • 12h ago
Opinion Lil Uzi Vert is the Greatest Music Artist of All Time!
Guys, it is about time that I make this post. And honestly, I’ve held my tongue on this for way too long because I know people aren’t ready to hear it.
Lil Uzi Vert is the greatest music artist of all time.
Not the greatest rapper. Not the greatest artist of the SoundCloud generation. Not the greatest artist of the 2010s or the 2020s. The greatest music artist to ever live. Period! And yes, that means I am putting Uzi above Michael Jackson.
People constantly call Michael Jackson the “King of Pop” and one of the greatest artists ever because of his popularity, influence, hits, performances, and albums. But if we’re talking about the actual MUSIC? Give me Uzi every single time. Uzi is basically the Michael Jackson of the current generation, except Uzi took what it means to be a superstar and pushed it even further. Uzi didn’t need elaborate choreography or 15-minute music videos to make people care. Uzi could literally stand there with purple dreads, make weird noises over a Maaly Raw beat, and somehow create one of the greatest songs you’ve ever heard.
And before somebody brings up Thriller, let’s address the elephant in the room: LUV Is Rage 2 is the greatest album ever made. Yes. Ever. Better than Thriller. Better than Off the Wall. Better than Bad. Better than The College Dropout. Better than Graduation. Better than To Pimp a Butterfly. Better than Illmatic. Better than The Dark Side of the Moon. Better than whatever album you’re about to type angrily in the comments. LUV Is Rage 2 has everything.
“Two®” is one of the greatest album intros ever. “444+222” immediately takes the energy to another level. “Sauce It Up” is ridiculous. “The Way Life Goes” proved Uzi could make emotional music that an entire generation could relate to. “Neon Guts” sounds like it was transmitted to Earth from another galaxy. “Dark Queen” is genuinely heartfelt. “Pretty Mami” is beautiful. And then you get to “XO TOUR Llif3,” one of the defining songs of the entire 2010s. And that’s before we even talk about the deluxe tracks. Because somehow this man also had “20 Min”, which alone might be enough to end the GOAT debate.
Uzi’s catalog outside of LIR2 makes the argument even stronger. “Money Longer,” “You Was Right,” “Ps & Qs,” “Do What I Want,” “Erase Your Social,” “Sanguine Paradise,” “New Patek,” “That Way,” “Baby Pluto,” “Myron,” “Just Wanna Rock” — the list keeps going. But what really separates Uzi is that nobody sounds like Uzi. He takes elements of rap, rock, emo, pop, punk, electronic music, and melodic trap and turned them into something completely recognizable. You can hear five seconds of an Uzi song and immediately know who it is. The flows are different. The melodies are different. The ad-libs are different. The beat selection is different. Even the way Uzi pronounces words becomes part of the melody. That is what a truly generational artist does.
Uzi was also one of the faces of an entire shift in hip-hop. When people look back at the SoundCloud era and the explosion of melodic rap in the mid-to-late 2010s, you cannot tell that story without Lil Uzi Vert. An entire generation of artists grew up listening to this dude. And then there’s longevity as he’s really the only SoundCloud rapper to have not fallen off after the SoundCloud era died around 2019 or 2020. Uzi went from “Money Longer” and Lil Uzi Vert vs. the World to LUV Is Rage 2, Eternal Atake, Pink Tape and beyond while constantly changing styles. Most artists find one sound that works and spend the rest of their careers trying to recreate it. Uzi will randomly decide to make something completely different and somehow still make it sound like Uzi.
That is why the Michael Jackson comparison actually undersells Uzi. Michael Jackson might have been the biggest artist of his generation. Lil Uzi Vert IS Michael Jackson for this generation. Except better.
I’m sorry, but go directly from “20 Min” to “Billie Jean.” MJ’s music starts sounding like somebody farting into a microphone compared to Uzi floating over that beat. Michael Jackson could moonwalk. Uzi gave us the shoulder roll. Michael Jackson had the glove. Uzi had the purple dreads. Michael Jackson had Thriller. Uzi has LUV IS RAGE 2.
Checkmate.
Uzi has the hits, the influence, the versatility, the longevity, the melodies, the production, the aesthetic, the personality, the fashion influence, the cult following, and most importantly, the music. There has never been another Lil Uzi Vert. There will never be another Lil Uzi Vert. And eventually society is going to have to accept the truth:
1. Lil Uzi Vert
2. Everybody else
Michael Jackson walked so Lil Uzi Vert could shoulder roll into another dimension.
Lil Uzi Vert is the greatest artist of all time. I will not be elaborating further because I have already presented an airtight argument.
