Luv Is Rage 2

Luv Is Rage 2 is the debut studio album by American rapper and singer Lil Uzi Vert. It was released through Generation Now and Atlantic Records on August 25, 2017. The album features guest appearances from The Weeknd, Oh Wonder, and Pharrell Williams.
Luv Is Rage 2 was met with generally positive reviews, debuting at number one on the US Billboard 200 with 135,000 album-equivalent units, of which 28,000 were pure album sales. On March 19, 2019, the album was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales, streaming, and track-sale equivalents of two million units.
== Description ==
There are few songs in 21st-century hip-hop that serve as an artist's mission statement as clearly as Lil Uzi Vert's "XO Tour Llif3." In 2017, with a single stroke, Uzi had synthesized the jagged emotionality of the Soundcloud-native rappers bubbling out of South Florida, the melodic trap records emanating from Atlanta, and technical rigor from his native Philadelphia. Beyond the text of the song, its release seemed immediately to be an inflection point, the long-awaited realization of the superstar potential projected onto him from the moment he emerged in the mid-2010s. It would be virtually impossible to overstate the song's impact on Uzi's career and on rap writ large. Before it was even officially issued as a single, the Soundcloud version of the pleading, pointed track had amassed a giant cult following; when it was finally available through commercial channels, it became a phenomenon far beyond what a no. 7 peak on the Hot 100 could measure. 
But rather than serving as a business model, "XO Tour Llif3" comes to define Luv Is Rage 2, Uzi's studio debut from that same year, on a thematic level. That song's quick pivots of posture and composure—from callousness to tenderness, defiance to outright desperation—are mirrored over and over throughout the LP. See the way "Dark Queen" is at once a loving portrait of Uzi's mother and an implicitly icy one of him; see how "The Way Life Goes," with its extended Oh Wonder interpolation, flits from big-brotherly advice to petty woundedness. None of this tonal morphing makes the songs incoherent—it makes them complicated, the way we all are.
Uzi has always seemed to pick beats as if reaching into a boiling cauldron from a children's cartoon, pulling out tracks that sound slightly haunted but are nevertheless rendered in bright Technicolor. Pharrell's playful but punishing "Neon Guts" is on the lighter end of this spectrum, while "No Sleep Leak" pushes Uzi's voice into a lonely vacuum where each paranoid lyric is made to seem twice as foreboding as it would in a fuller mix. While Uzi frequently appears to have gobbled up and metabolized the musical world around him, Luv Is Rage 2 is a chillingly singular record. Apple Music
== Singles ==
Title 	Released
"XO Tour Llif3" 	March 24, 2017
"The Way Life Goes"	October 3, 2017
"Sauce It Up" 	February 27, 2018
== Year-end lists ==
Publication	List 	Rank	
Billboard 	Billboards 50 Best Albums of 2017	 	
Complex 	The Best Albums of 2017 	 	
Noisey 	The 100 Best Albums of 2017 	 	
Rap-Up 	Rap-Ups 20 Best Albums of 2017 	 	
== Track listing ==
Notes
* "Two®" features additional vocals from Kesha Lee
* "The Way Life Goes" originally didn't credit featured vocals by Oh Wonder
* "How to Talk" features additional vocals from Dreamdoll
* "XO Tour Llif3" is stylized as "XO TOUR Llif3"
Sample credits
* "The Way Life Goes" contains a sample of "Landslide" performed by Oh Wonder.
== Personnel ==
Performers
* Lil Uzi Vert primary artist
* Oh Wonder featured artist (track 5)
* Pharrell Williams featured artist (track 8)
* The Weeknd featured artist (track 10)
Technical
* Kesha Lee mixing engineer (tracks 1, 2, 9, 12, 17–20), recording engineer (tracks 1–9, 11-20)
* Chris Athens mastering engineer (tracks 1–15)
* Don Cannon mixing engineer (tracks 2, 9, 15, 20)
* Leslie Braithwaite mixing engineer (tracks 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 16)
* Jaycen Joshua mixing engineer (tracks 5, 7, 10, 13, 14)
* Michael Piroli mixer (tracks 3, 5)
* Ben Sedano engineer (track 8)
* Jon Sher engineer (track 8)
* Thomas Cullison engineer (track 8)
* Mike Larson recording engineer (track 8)
* Colin Leonard mastering engineer (track 16)
Production
Additional personnel
* Don Cannon executive producer
* DJ Drama executive producer, album producer
* Leighton "LakeShow" Morrison executive producer
* Ron Cabiltes sample clearance
* Spike Jordan photographer, art direction and design
* Matt Meiners art direction and design
* Virgil Abloh album cover
== Charts ==
Weekly charts
Chart (2017) 	Peakposition
Australian Albums (ARIA) 	
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) 	
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) 	
Canadian Albums (Billboard) 	
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI) 	
Danish Albums (Hitlisten) 	
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) 	
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)	
French Albums (SNEP) 	
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) 	
Italian Albums (FIMI) 	
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) 	
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) 	
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) 	
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) 	
UK Albums (OCC) 	
UK R&B Albums (OCC) 	
US Billboard 200 	
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard) 	
Year-end charts
Chart (2017) 	Position
US Billboard 200 	
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)	
Chart (2018) 	Position
Canadian Albums (Billboard) 	
Danish Albums (Hitlisten) 	
Icelandic Albums (Plötutíóindi) 	
US Billboard 200 	
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)	
Chart (2019) 	Position
US Billboard 200 	
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)	
Chart (2020) 	Position
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Chart (2021) 	Position
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Chart (2022) 	Position
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Chart (2023) 	Position
US Billboard 200 	
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)	
Decade-end charts
Chart (2010-19) 	Position
US Billboard 200	
== Certifications ==
Country 	Certification	Certified units/sales
Denmark (IFPI) 	Platinum 	20,000‡
France (SNEP) 	Gold 	50,000‡
Italy (FIMI) 	Gold 	25,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI)	Gold 	100,000‡
United States (RIAA)	2× Platinum 	2,000,000‡
 	 	
== References ==
Category:Albums
Category:Luv Is Rage 2
Category:Studio albums