Pink Tape
by Lil Uzi Vert
User Score
6.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 21 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 21
  3. Negative: 3 out of 21
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  1. clem666
    Aug 4, 2023
    2
    The long awaited effort all fans were not exactly expecting. Lil Uzi Vert feeds us with numerous tracks of variable length, pace and style.

    He chose to do his musical promotion by releasing almost all of the featured tracks in the most commercial way. We find him exactly where we left him with rhythms similar to 'Pluto x Baby Pluto' & 'Eternal Atake' in addition to this EP 'Red & White'    The long awaited effort all fans were not exactly expecting. Lil Uzi Vert feeds us with numerous tracks of variable length, pace and style.

    He chose to do his musical promotion by releasing almost all of the featured tracks in the most commercial way. We find him exactly where we left him with rhythms similar to 'Pluto x Baby Pluto' & 'Eternal Atake' in addition to this EP 'Red & White' (that both came out back in 2020 meaning three long years ago) with tracks such as 'Flooded The Face', 'Pluto to Mars', 'x2', 'All Alone' or 'Rehab'. This may entertain some of the audience but for me it quickly felt like Lil Uzi gave us all he possibly could based on this approach. Same old linear song, themes addressed, flows but with the major flaw that even he sounds tired of it. He clearly don't have the 'Luv Is Rage' or 'Eternla Atake' energy and stamina. Nothing pops, nothing made me even nod to the beat.

    On the other hand, he seems to follow other artists going from (t)rap to rock, as Machine Gun Kelly, Lil Yachty, Trippie Redd or Playboi Carti. I am not sure about this whole trend. But Uzi experiments on songs as 'Suicide Doors' or 'Amped' to complete his notable featuring with Babymetal on 'The End'. If often sound painful, disorganised, noisy, unstructured and overly long. Furthermore the total length of the project doesn't help on that way. The only rock track that sounds great to me was the one with Bring Me The Horizon 'Werewolf'.

    To complete the picture, Uzi found attractive to offer us covers, terrible samples and reprises as on 'Fire Alarm', 'CS' (this started well though), 'Endless Fashion' or "Mama I'm Sorry'. These are so many proofs that Uzi touched the bottom of artistic inspiration. Please get some more rest. We really waited that long to get this? How?

    There are some moments of brightness and ingenuity here and there but wow.. These are so lost in mountains of useless childish shouts, mind-numbing vocals, half-cooked lyrics and poor production. It is painful. Stay away.    … Expand
  2. Gogo1210
    Jul 27, 2023
    1
    Bad album he. Not a rockstar he just terrible quit music please it would be in his best interest to do so the production all over the place the lyrics are juvenile

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64

Generally favorable reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. HipHopDX
    Jul 28, 2023
    62
    Pink Tape is a sprawling listening experience that struggles to ever find its footing – and tries to be too much at once without taking the time to offer much of any substance.
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  2. AllMusic
    Jul 19, 2023
    60
    Some of Uzi's experiments are fun and exploratory while others flop, and the entire album is a lot to digest in one go. There are still plenty of solid tracks regardless of what style Lil Uzi Vert is trying on, but more fastidious editing might have delivered a more enjoyable, less meandering overall listening experience.
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  3. Rolling Stone
    Jul 10, 2023
    60
    Is it too much? Reader, it’s way too much. But it’s hard to say it doesn’t work when “too much” was clearly the point. It’s less “a swing and a miss” than “a swing that rips open a hole in the time-space continuum.”
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