Lil Uzi Vert Is Rolling Out a New Album on His Pet Monkey’s Instagram Page: Everything We Loved in Music This Week

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Yes, you’re reading that right. Lil Uzi Vert has a pet monkey – her name is Piccola – and she now has her own Instagram page. The Instagram is more than just a place for photo dumps (though she already has posted a pretty good one, captioned “Early Studio sesh”); rather, it seems to be the main vessel Uzi plans to use to roll out his next longform studio project. Uzi – sorry, Piccola – has shared a minute-long video of her and Uzi, but no music has materialized quite yet.

Officially kicking off his new album rollout is rising under-the-radar artist, Quadeca. After appearing on Kevin Abstract’s Blush and Danny Brown’s Stardust during the same timeframe he released his impressive new LP, Vanisher, Horizon Scraper, Quadeca is seemingly another new longform project. The first track? A single entitled “Dark Magic” – out now.

The Boy has made history. On the heels of his ICEMAN/HABIBTI/MAID OF HONOUR trifecta, Drake has official broken the world record for most No. 1 singles by a male solo artist, beating out the record held by Michael Jackson. “Neck broke from carrying the chain. Back broke from carrying the game. Records broken carry on my name. Carry on carry on,” the rapper wrote in his Instagram caption. Classic. It was thirteen singles in total. Full story here.

Big Mama’s getting ready to return – or retire, that is. With Latto‘s Big Mama’s release confirmed for the end of this week, the rapper took to Instagram to artistically roll out the official docket of featured contributors set to assist on the album. Artists showing out on the lineup include 21 Savage, Mariah the Scientist, WizKid, Teyana Taylor, Odeal and Jelly Roll.

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