An hour after we entered Dover Street, Uzi had spent just north of $5,000 and paid for nearly everything in $100 bills.

Rich sent her the address to the restaurant he planned to go to next, and all the pertinent details for his show that night at Irving Plaza.

He checked in with Brittany via text on multiple occasions (she was getting her hair done) and made sure his assistant D. Uzi loves to shop, and he browsed through Raf Simons and Hood By Air garments in a relaxed, unhurried manner, even as high school-aged hypebeasts prodded him for a photo. Their co-dependence revealed itself in our time together: she was part of the reason we fought against evening rush-hour traffic into Manhattan to get to Dover Street Market, the New York City clothing emporium launched by Commes des Garçons founder Rei Kawakubo in 2013, before it closed for the night. Brittany, who’s originally from Los Angeles, introduced him to a pescatarian lifestyle and provides creative assistance on shoots and music videos. “She helps me with everything,” Uzi clarified. Less than an hour later, he released an inky lament called “Stole Your Luv” on SoundCloud, which contemplated the rigors of intimacy and dating.īut that was days ago, and, for now, the past is just that. Just days prior, he punctuated the initial break in a solitary tweet: the word “Single” was followed by a two-heart emoji and the copyright symbol (one user, expressed a pretty unanimous sentiment among fans: “NIGGA CALL BRITT RIGHT NOW & WORK THIS OUT… WE WERE ROOTING FOR YALL!!!!”). “I was being a little extra,” was all Uzi would divulge about the rift. The pair’s relationship, which is well-documented across social media, has been going on for about a year now, and on the day of our interview, they’d recently gotten back together after a week-long split. We lip lock until our lips are swollen/ Live in the moment good times are golden/ I’m not gonna lie you got me open. Paradise, it’s somewhere that I never been before, he confesses on the blissful hook.

That feeling of new love, as affirmed in the song, pushed the Philadelphia-born rager to truly open up for the first time. On “Paradise,” the airy bonus cut from his 2015 LUV Is RAGE mixtape, Uzi maps the highs of their relationship. There is one recent exception: Brittany Byrd, his girlfriend and creative muse.

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