Lil Uzi Vert isn’t much of a hooper but he showed off his basketball skills while playing some one-on-one on the West Coast earlier this week.
Rocking a blue tie-dye sweatsuit, Uzi stopped by Cool Kicks in Los Angeles on Monday (March 13) and in the midst of his shopping spree, started shooting around.
The boutique sneaker store even lowered the hoop for the vertically-challenged rapper so he could throw down some thunderous slam dunks with his slicked-back hair not swaying an inch.
The “Just Wanna Rock” rhymer even shook one of the Cool Kicks founders out of his sandals with his fancy dribble moves but couldn’t make the shot in the clip posted to Instagram.
Fans joked in the comment section that Uzi looked like a number of celebrities, ranging from James Brown and Katt Williams to Al Sharpton because of his hairstyle.
Check out the clips below:
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TMZ also caught up with Lil Uzi Vert during his Los Angeles adventures this week where he explained how he adjusted his creative process when it came to no longer recording while using drugs for the long-awaited Pink Tape, which he expects to arrive within the next two months.
“I thought that my creative process wasn’t gonna be the same because I wasn’t on drugs no more,” he said. However, when the reporter asked if his creative process was the same, he admitted it was even better.
Uzi said that not only could he “think more clearly,” he no longer had issues with slurring his words and has been focused in the studio. “It made sense,” he said. “It wasn’t like I just made random music. I didn’t just play off the beat. I actually made songs with topics this time.”
Generation Now co-founder Don Cannon previously stated that Uzi had recorded nearly 700 songs for the album and it won’t have any features.
“Right now, we working on the album and he got 680 songs [from the last] 18 months,” Cannon said on Math Hoffa’s My Expert Opinion last month. “I call him the Kobe Bryant when he was saying he used to shoot jump shots after the game. That’s what he doing. He give you a hit and do five songs a day. Nobody believe me. I bring them to the studio to see.
“Sober, high, when he used to get high and now he sober doing it. Ain’t nothing changed. He one of them guys, and it’s different because you’re getting all different kind of songs out of him. You might get a rock song, a real rap song because he really rap, you might get the melodic shit that he do.”
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