So I was like, ‘Let me make a pack of uptempo 148 to 155.’” Man, fuck!’ The slower beats don’t go to the clubs. But, I was sitting there and I was like ‘Man, let me sample myself.’ I heard the beat and I was like, ‘Damn. “It was one of them ones where I didn’t send it out, and I’m pretty sure he was sending it out, but it didn’t reach. “The beat ended up not traveling nowhere,” he says. The main melody of the track wasn’t “XO” but served as its foundation.

Number six.”Īccording to TM88, the original vibe of “XO” came from a beat he was sitting on for three years that he made with his producer JW Lucas. I sat down, I was like, ‘Man, I'ma cook a 20 pack for Uzi and just send him all 20 beats.’ It’s kind of weird, because everybody saying Uzi Lucifer and this shit now. People really don’t believe that I did it. We gotta find this zone.’ I didn’t have none of my equipment. We gotta make the most epic shit in the world.

“We was on FaceTime for like a hour and 40 minutes just talking about the industry and just regular shit,” producer TM88 tells Genius. He premiered the track in London while opening for The Weeknd’s Starboy: Legend of the Fall 2017 world tour, and the song’s title pays homage to The Weeknd’s label XO. Over production from JW Lucas and TM88, Uzi Vert rages about relationship troubles with his ex-girlfriend, Brittany Byrd, among other things. Lil Uzi Vert’s “XO TOUR Llif3” is one of the biggest songs of the year.

Tm88 making a beat