Lil Uzi Vert turned a scrapped pageant set right into a celebration on Friday (July 31), shocking followers with a brand new EP on their thirty first birthday hours after a last-minute Lollapalooza cancellation.
The eight-track challenge, Maverick “Nearly Perpetually,” is the Philadelphia rapper’s first launch in two years, and arrives with cowl artwork depicting a younger Uzi alongside their grandmother.
The drop landed on a date with historical past in Uzi’s catalogue: precisely a decade earlier, on July 31, 2016, they launched The Good LUV Tape, which debuted at No. 55 on the Billboard 200 and has since been licensed gold by the RIAA. Uzi had teased new materials as lately as mid-July, sharing an Instagram Story displaying work on a studio challenge.
The discharge adopted the abrupt cancellation of Uzi’s Lollapalooza set at Grant Park in Chicago, the place they’d been slated to carry out Friday night forward of headliner Charli XCX.
Lollapalooza’s official assertion attributed the cancellation to “climate points,” and NBC Chicago individually reported the cancellation was tied to the heavy rain and stormy situations that swept the realm all through the day. Zara Larsson was moved as much as fill the slot.
The birthday launch extends a run that has made Uzi some of the commercially dominant hip-hop artists of their technology. They’ve topped the Billboard 200 thrice — with Everlasting Atake (2020), its deluxe reissue Lil Uzi Vert vs. the World 2 (2020) and Pink Tape (2023) — and scored a Sizzling 100 No. 1 as a featured artist on Migos’ “Dangerous and Boujee” in 2017. Their very own “XO Tour Llif3” reached No. 3 on the Sizzling 100 and is licensed diamond by the RIAA.
Maverick “Nearly Perpetually” arrives as Lollapalooza 2026 continues via Aug. 2 at Grant Park, with Smashing Pumpkins, Mustard and Yungblud among the many acts who carried out Friday.
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