Lil Uzi Vert has left followers divided after introducing their new alter-ego, Leslie.
The Philly rapper unveiled their new look and moniker on Instagram on Sunday (April 16) whereas touring in Thailand.
Uzi posted a sequence of pictures exhibiting off Leslie’s emo-inspired coiffure and outfit, together with a video of them consuming a cockroach.
In the photographs, Baby Pluto will be seen carrying a “Pink Tape” T-shirt, which is the title of their upcoming album.
Fans took to the feedback part of Lil Uzi Vert’s put up to share their ideas on their new alter-ego, with many individuals mocking their new look.
“N-gga looking like somebody emo auntie,” one fan wrote, whereas one other joked: “Uzi looking like he just joined panic at the disco.”
“I thought that was someone’s grandmother,” one other commenter quipped.
Not everybody was turned off by Uzi’s new look, although. “Stop telling folks to be normal.. normal is Boring if this is his personality let it be,” one fan wrote in protection of his individuality.
Pennsylvania rapper Eem Triplin, in the meantime, hailed Uzi as “not human” whereas utilizing a goat emoji to crown him as the best of all time.
Lil Uzi Vert’s new alter-ego comes simply days after he carried out at Rolling Loud Thailand in Pattaya City on Thursday (April 13).
The competition was headlined by Cardi B, Chris Brown and Travis Scott, with Rae Sremmurd, Rick Ross, Offset, Fat Joe, DaBaby, Central Cee, Soulja Boy and plenty of others additionally on the lineup.
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Uzi is presently engaged on their long-awaited third album, The Pink Tape, which is about to be launched this yr. Don Cannon just lately claimed Uzi has recorded nearly 700 songs for the challenge.
“I gotta say him because he’s non-stop,” he stated. “Right now, we working on the album and he got 680 songs [from the last] 18 months. I call him the Kobe Bryant when he was saying he used to shoot jump shots after the game.
“That’s what he doing. He give you a hit and do five songs a day. Nobody believe me. I bring them to the studio to see. Sober, high, when he used to get high and now he sober doing it. Ain’t nothing changed.”
He added: “He one of them guys, and it’s different because you’re getting all different kind of songs out of him. You might get a rock song, a real rap song because he really rap, you might get the melodic shit that he do.”
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