Lil Uzi Vert‘s Eternal Atake 2 finally arrived last week, and it looks like it’s headed toward a top three debut on the Billboard 200.
On Tuesday (November 5), Hits Daily Double reported the LP is looking at an estimated 60,000 album equivalent units for its first week, which would place it at No. 3 behind Sabrina Carpenter’s Short N’ Sweet and Tyler, The Creator‘s Chromakopia.
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It is to be noted, however, that HDD‘s numbers may differ from Billboard’s final tally.
Released on Friday (November 1), Lil Uzi Vert addressed fan concerns over their alleged use of nitrous oxide on the new album.
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On the opening track “We Good,” the Philadelphia rapper responds to the rumors by spitting: “They said I was lost, they thought I was a dead guy, I was on that NOS.”
Uzi seemingly confirms using nitrous oxide on the very next song “Light Year (Practice),” rapping: “I’m fresh off the nitrous, ain’t mess up ability.”
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Fans were concerned about Uzi’s welfare earlier this year after a video circulated online of them inhaling a substance from a party balloon while hanging out with a group of friends in a recording studio.
One of the men in the background says: “My son is back! We got Uzi back!” to which Baby Pluto replies: “Yes sir!” before laughing.
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Several other balloons could be seen in the clip, along with an unmarked canister which was used to blow them up.
Fans were quick to speculate that Uzi was using nitrous oxide — nicknamed laughing gas for its euphoric high — leading to both concern and criticism online.
“[N]o wonder his music so trash now nitrous fried his brain smh,” one person wrote on X (formerly Twitter), while another added: “Using nitrous for his studio sessions yeah just go ahead and retire. [Luv Is Rage 3] gonna be his worst album by far and his brain is gonna be cooked.”
The National Institute of Health has warned about the dangers of sustained nitrous oxide use, which “inactivates vitamin B12, resulting in a functional vitamin B12 deficiency and initially causing numbness in fingers, which may further progress to peripheral neuropathy and megaloblastic anemia.”
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Eternal Atake 2 stands as Uzi’s fourth studio album, and follows July 2023’s Pink Tape. The effort debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, opening with 167k album-equivalent units.
