Lil Uzi Vert dropped a pair of singles earlier this month with “Sanguine Paradise” and “That’s a Rack.” While the former has earned most of the attention and a higher chart placement, Uzi decided to unleash a music video for the latter track.
Directed by DAPS, who has previously worked with artists like Kendrick Lamar, 2 Chainz, and Migos, the “That’s a Rack” video features an orchestra of models and women whose naked bodies are covered in paint. As redditor AmazingPony points out, this appears to be an homage to a series of famous paintings and performance pieces by French artist Yves Klein.
Klein’s unorthodox approach to art in the 1950s and ‘60s helped crown him one of the forefathers of performance art. In 1960, he began staging a series he called Anthropometries, where he would cover women’s naked bodies in his signature blue paint and use them to make artwork. As AnOther Mag notes, he would create these works during events accompanied by musical compositions played by a live orchestra.
Uzi’s “That’s a Rack” video appears to depict this exact scenario, with Uzi rapping amongst an orchestra before women are covered in blue paint and dragged across a canvas. He only mentions the color blue once, however, on the song’s second verse:
Got addictive personality, I turned into a fiend
Okay, my money sky blue, but my new coupe is slime green
“That’s a Rack” debuted at No. 76 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week, and the millions of music video streams may help boost it even further in the coming weeks. There’s still no word on when his sophomore album, Eternal Atake, is set to drop, but Working On Dying manager Finesse recently told Genius that Uzi is hard at work on the project.
“He records every day. But he’s not gonna put it out until he feels like every one is to his liking, and sometimes that pace is gonna be slower than what his fans like,“ Finesse said. "So we get it. We understand, but equally speaking he’s working on the best music of his life. That’s gonna take time.”
Watch the video above and read all the lyrics to Lil Uzi Vert’s “That’s A Rack” on Genius now.
