Coyote moment of the ground falling out from the floor beneath someone. Maxwell Cavaseno: “Harambe” with the Wile E. Thomas Inskeep: TM88 has largely built a discography of producing southern rappers I don’t much care for, but I love the simplicity of this beat for Uzi, which allows Uzi room to do whatever he wants, and when Uzi does whatever Uzi wants, he’s at his best. Be it the just-too-emphasised chill or the whirlwind of emotion it gives way to, it’s an intense experience. Iain Mew: It’s too slippery to perfectly stick, but even the most flattened-out version still sets up its own world for its duration. Like my linked example, TM88’s production is at once playful and forlorn, making it the proper foundation for Lil Uzi Vert’s (often difficult to listen to) narrative of a fraught relationship. Will Adams: I’ve become so drawn to sparse, lo-fi synthwork over the past year that “XO Tour Llif3” had me from the start. It might have been beautiful once, but that beauty is gone now, forever irretrievable and just as a withered, broken structure exudes a desolate kind of perfection, so does this song. The song is rusted, dulled, just enough sharp bits left to hurt but not enough nerves left to completely feel the pain. It delivers the opening line “I don’t really care if you cry” with the disinterest and impersonality of a mail clerk calling forward the next customer in line, and maintains that dreariness until the sudden crescendo of “She say I’m insane, yeah! I might blow my brain, yeah! Xanny help the pain, yeah! Please, Xanny make it go away!” Lil Uzi Vert embodies his chorus’ mantra of “push me to the edge,” but it’s clear Uzi isn’t just being pushed to the edge here he’s been there for so long that the edge has started to corrode. It is at once dead-eyed, manic, caustic and terrified, its nihilistic lyrics striking repeated blows to the solar plexus through the oppressive haze of a beat from which you can almost physically smell weed smoke. “XO Tour Llif3” is not like that “XO Tour Llif3” is devastating. Will Rivitz: Lil Uzi Vert’s music typically doesn’t have too much emotional depth: his flat delivery, repetitive flow, and often fairly generic lyrics land with about the sticking power of old porridge. 1 and/or a meme, if there’s a difference… Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment.Email (song suggestions/writer enquiries).