Lil Uzi Vert and the Rest of Soundcloud Rap Will Continue to Dominate Music in 2018
Lil Uzi Vert once told me he wanted to be a rockstar. On a June day in 2016, under a slab of sapphire sky, I followed him from New Jersey into the thick of Manhattan. In our time together—I was writing a profile of the then-22-year-old—he remained strikingly walled off, especially for an artist on …