Lil Uzi Vert has dropped off a preview of his upcoming Scarlet & White EP — listen to "Space Buck" beneath.

On Sabbatum (July 16), Uzi surprised his longtime followers with the release of the SoundCloud exclusive, which hears the Generation Now rapper announcing he's "on his ain level" and he'due south high across conventionalities.

Carmine & White serves equally Uzi's first proper project since 2020'southward Pluto X Baby Pluto collaboration album with Future and his starting time solo effort since LUV Vs. The World 2, which doubled every bit the palatial edition of his 2020 anthology Eternal Atake.

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Despite debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and featuring the hit singles "Babe Pluto," "Futsal Shuffle 2020," and "That Way," Uzi has long been critical of Eternal Atake. In an interview with W Magazine, Uzi detailed how he had to redo the album afterwards all the original material for information technology found its style onto the net.

"All of my music for Eternal Atake got leaked, so I had to redo it," he explained. "It didn't reach its full potential—I just knew information technology wasn't the audio I was going for. Permit's just say Eternal Atake, for another artist, would accept been actually good, because information technology was super dumbed downward to where anybody could enjoy it, but that's not my artistry."

The build-up for Red & White comes as Uzi continues to tease fans with his long-awaited P!NK anthology. Previously teased as The Pink Tape, Uzi's side by side full-length effort has been tinkered with in numerous forms. The project was initially set to be released terminal Halloween but has suffered multiple setbacks and delays.

"It'southward going through its mixing process right at present," Uzi told HipHopDX last August. "Last time I dropped an anthology, information technology did really well. It was really my highest-selling album, only information technology was experimental on the mixing part, not the actual music. So this fourth dimension, I went experimental with the music and traditional on the mixing."

He added: "I'yard feeling really proficient about it. Unremarkably, I'll pump myself upwards even if I don't experience really expert, and I'll be like 'oh this is it.' [I do that] but to similar requite myself that actress push, simply this time I really kind of recollect this is it."

Listen to Lil Uzi Vert'south new track "Space Buck" below:

Meanwhile, Uzi performed on the first day of London's Wireless Festival in Crystal Palace before this calendar month (July 1).

Footage from his functioning sees him throwing a phone off stage and into the crowd, allegedly hitting a festival-goer and causing them to bleed.

TikTok user @ccornonmycob claims the phone struck her in the head and left her with a bloody injury, sharing a video of Uzi throwing the object along with photos of the damage caused to her head. She as well shared another video explaining the situation in depth, while mentioning some other fan also beingness injured.

In a statement to XXL, a source close to the situation said: "During Uzi's set at Wireless Fest, fans threw multiple cellphones onto the stage and inadvertently struck him. He merely attempted to clear the phones from the stage, avoid slipping and safely continue his performance — he never intentionally directed it at a specific individual."