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“Why would you want to see me push the same narrative every day?” Lil Uzi Vert walks us through their style journey and their biggest style influences. “I treat every day like a series,” says the American rapper as they share their approach to putting together the daily fit.
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00:00Hey, it's Lil Uzi Vert, I'm here with GQ,
00:03and this is my style journey.
00:15How did you get your first pair of skinny jeans?
00:17My first pair of skinnies was my mom's jeans.
00:19Oh, word.
00:20So like, I wear like a longer, like not super oversized,
00:23but the sleeves would be cut short, like just a tee.
00:26But since I was small, if you wear a grown man's small,
00:29it's kind of on.
00:30So I would like have my pants pulled all the way up
00:32so you can't see that it was kind of big,
00:33and I had it on.
00:34That was cool, but like, my dad ain't rock with that.
00:36No, he wasn't on like us getting tattoos.
00:39He ain't let me get piercings.
00:41But my dad, my man, it ain't like, it was a problem.
00:43It became normal after a while.
00:45Like no matter what, no matter what I wear,
00:47no matter like what I say, or how I look,
00:49or how I dance, or what people think about me,
00:51I just think about my family.
00:52My family love everything I do.
00:59I just wanted face tats because I wanted face tats.
01:01I hate when people say, I got a face tats
01:03because I told myself I wasn't going to work a job.
01:06So, but just don't work a job.
01:08Like I just got them because I wanted them.
01:09Like I wanted them.
01:10Like I told you, I look up the Wiz Khalifa, Lil Wayne.
01:13Why wouldn't I want to look like this?
01:14Like, Wiz Khalifa really was my favorite rapper.
01:16Like everybody know, like Lil Wayne, of course,
01:19but that don't count.
01:20That's like stock.
01:21Like, you know Lil Wayne is that guy.
01:23Like, you know that.
01:24Back then, I was picking like the new guy,
01:27and it was Wiz Khalifa, so that became my favorite rapper.
01:29You know, that was Khali, like they was doing that in Khali.
01:31Like, like the Rejects and Young Sam, Cold Flames.
01:36Like that's who really started the patch.
01:37And they started the piercings.
01:39They started what?
01:40They started the septums, the patch.
01:42They started all that.
01:43They was like the rough gothics of that scene.
01:46My whole body was already bombed.
01:47So I had heard about Gringa because I had saw like,
01:50you know, celebrities going at gym.
01:52So I'm like, oh, I bet.
01:53Then I'm peeping the process of like,
01:55because they, bruh, they would put you to sleep.
01:56Put me to sleep.
01:58I woke up.
01:59My crazy, I went the next day and got the back done.
02:01Got out the way.
02:02I wasn't even supposed to do that.
02:04Bro, I was seeing all types of stuff.
02:06I noticed you hurt.
02:07It's hurt.
02:08I couldn't feel nothing.
02:09I just told you I was seeing all types of stuff.
02:11Hurt.
02:12No, no hurt.
02:13I didn't even, I couldn't even, I didn't even,
02:15I didn't feel like I was on earth.
02:16Y'all probably be like,
02:21Uzi wearing some crazy shit today or something,
02:23but I'm thinking about something totally different.
02:25Like I treat every day like a series, you know?
02:27And sometimes I continue a series that I already started.
02:30And sometimes, you know, I start up a new series,
02:33depending on how I feel.
02:34Head named Barry, I ain't gonna lie,
02:36he definitely showed me a lot of stuff.
02:38Cause I don't be with nobody.
02:39You know, like a lot of people be hating on me.
02:41With fashion, I look at my build and my stature and stuff.
02:44And this is things that I think about on my own.
02:46Like, of course, like the Japanese culture
02:49and just the whole Asian culture in general,
02:51definitely inspires all of my work from music,
02:54from the artistry, from the clothes.
02:56When I dropped last year, I wanted to try something.
02:58Like I went to Japan and really shot that.
03:00That wasn't like CG.
03:01I was in Japan.
03:02Y'all love the color scheme.
03:04I loved the time I took out to like
03:05shoot the little things that I did.
03:07What made you start making everything like a series?
03:09When I started getting money
03:10and I was able to do anything I want.
03:12And I always could do anything I want,
03:13but since y'all watching,
03:15I'm gonna give y'all a show.
03:16Why would y'all want to see me wear the same thing every day?
03:18Or why would y'all want to see me
03:19push the same narrative every day?
03:21That's why y'all got all these other rappers.
03:242016, so y'all was poppin' for real,
03:26but I feel like you took it
03:28and I don't think you peaked it.
03:29I brought it to the hood.
03:30That's all I did.
03:31Cause A$AP Rocky and them, they been doing that.
03:33He been had money before me.
03:34I used to look up to him.
03:35In 2012, I was in school.
03:37And not saying used to, I still look up to him.
03:39I look up to everybody that I ever looked up to,
03:41still look up to him, but you're gonna understand.
03:43It's so much stuff that them type people wear,
03:45like that you would never like.
03:47Me, it's details I miss, you know?
03:49Cause they so ahead of time.
03:51I wasn't ahead of time,
03:52but then I pop out instead of putting Gucci on,
03:54I put on Goyard and I had my wallet sticking out my pocket.
03:56So you can see my wallet.
03:57Cause I couldn't really afford the bag at first.
04:00And then I started getting the bags and shit.
04:01Nobody really started nothing, bro.
04:03Like I ain't, I ain't started.
04:05They, nobody started it, bro.
04:07In the hood, they was able to like, you know,
04:09digest it from me.
04:10Then I made a song with Fabulous called Goyard Bag.
04:13Where like, we had the hood lit with that.
04:15And then everybody was like, turn.
04:19What do you carry around in your Goyard bag?
04:21In here?
04:22Nothing.
04:23Loose leaves.
04:26Even though I'm allergic to chocolate,
04:27still got the cookies and cream flavor.
04:29Crazy, man.
04:30Don't think that's real chocolate.
04:31Um, you know this y'all was like $2,000?
04:36Fuck it, bro.
04:39I got it though.
04:40Some original style.
04:41I ain't gonna lie, I got this from, from Barbie too, bro.
04:45I ain't see a nigga in a minute.
04:47Chanel glasses.
04:49I don't know, bro, I got random stuff in here.
04:51Oh yeah.
04:52I always need this.
04:54I wear all white every day.
04:57Because it's like, I'm being reborn.
04:59After I like, get myself prepared or whatever,
05:01wash up and stuff.
05:02I put on these white clothes or whatever.
05:04I put on these white garments or whatever.
05:06I'm at my freshest form.
05:07Like, I'm brand new.
05:08I'm starting over every day.
05:10Once you get a stand on white, it's soil.
05:13If anything's soil, don't ever try to build on like,
05:16a plan that's really like, you know, already compromised.
05:19Sure.
05:20You know what I mean?
05:21My outfits basically are compromised.
05:23And a lot of people wear the shit that I wear.
05:25So that's why I wear all white.
05:27You wear the rock and pull the pins a lot.
05:29Yeah.
05:29I got original ones and I got new ones.
05:32Like this one is a new one.
05:34This is a new one.
05:35I ain't, like, nobody's yarn was like this.
05:37I got it from Juan.
05:38Ooh.
05:39Yeah, you feel me?
05:40My whole life, I wasted my money spending money at jewelers.
05:44There's no way that you can get pave set from a jeweler and everything is GIA certified.
05:48And if you do have that, you that nigga.
05:51But other than that, the jewelers are really a waste of money.
05:55So the type of chain I'll be making might not happen as fast because I'm trying to get
06:00like a big name to make it that I know that if I don't want this chain no more, I get the
06:06same thing.
06:07Everybody know I spend the most on jewelry.
06:10They don't be talking about nothing.
06:12I don't care how hard it's hitting, maybe go like this.
06:15I'll really be around like, you know, billions.
06:18They don't see me wear that shit no more.
06:20You know you do it.
06:21I'll tell you what's even better than that.
06:22Why?
06:23They just gave me an office.
06:24If you could see when I was pulling out the chain, I had like a black string around
06:28my neck.
06:29I keep the key card on my neck.
06:30Yeah.
06:31I keep my key card on my neck.
06:33I had chains my whole life, but I never had an office.
06:36No one never presented me an office.
06:37None of that.
06:38I never thought that I was good enough for an office.
06:40Oh, shout out JT too?
06:41I ain't gonna knock shout out JT.
06:42That's my baby.
06:43Yo, you wanna know something crazy?
06:46Every time I be on the internet and I see somebody say JT, I think my girl did something.
06:51It be Jason Tatum.
06:52Hey, time, bro.
06:56They be like, bro, I swear.
06:58I be like, man, I need to get out of my head.
07:00Cause I be like, bro, there's people in this world that got their own shit.
07:03I be like, what?
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