Key Takeaways:

• The “What You Saying” music video reimagines Lil Uzi Vert as a designer in a surreal, high-fashion runway world.
• Cameos from Marc Jacobs, Law Roach and Adriana Lima elevate the visible’s cultural cachet.
• The idea continues Uzi’s evolution as a fashion-forward artist with a futuristic aptitude.

Lil Uzi Vert has a bit extra music to share earlier than we bid farewell to 2025. On Monday (Dec. 22) evening, the Philadelphia rapper dropped their newest single, “What You Saying.”

Sampling French singer Indila’s “Love Story,” the file carries a bass-driven bounce strongly paying homage to “Just Wanna Rock.” They rap, “Okay, I really do get you / What I make in a day, what they make in a life / Is it ’cause that I’m paid, you trynna stay the night?” Maybe extra thrilling than the track itself was its cameo-filled music video directed by Charlotte Wales.

In the three-minute clip, Uzi dreamed up another universe the place they’re a designer. As a outcome, we see the business’s who’s who heading to — and attending — their “mock FashionTV-style runway show,” together with Marc Jacobs, Law Roach, supermodel Adriana Lima, Lynn Yaeger, Andre Walker and Lourdes Leon.

Fittingly, the Pink Tape artist additionally appeared in archival items by Jean Paul Gaultier and Helmut Lang, amongst different designers. Take a glance beneath.

“This video was born out of a conversation that I had with Ava [Nirui], where I expressed an interest in including a mock FashionTV-style runway show in my first music video from my new album,” Uzi instructed music-video”>Vogue. “It makes sense for me to have a music video inspired by the world of fashion, as I have always been an avid fashion fan and collector from a very young age.”

They continued, “I thought it was important to include archival references to fashion designers I am a fan of, like Martin Margiela, Marc Jacobs and Karl Lagerfeld, in both the storyline and in the wardrobe. I recently released a music video for a song called ‘Chanel Boy,’ so I’m finding ways to pay my respects to fashion and the brands I like through my visuals and also my music.”

Much like earlier singles “music-video”>Regular” and “Chanel Boy,” “What You Saying” was launched by way of Cor(e) and Roc Nation Distribution. Whether all three will seem on Uzi’s subsequent album continues to be unclear, although the newest single’s higher-budget music video means that it could belong to a bigger physique of labor.