Rich The Kid Doubts That Lil Uzi Vert Will Respond To "Dead Friends" Diss

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Rich The Kid doesn't think Lil Uzi Vert will respond on a "music level."

If you only had a hunch that Lil Uzi Vert and Rich The Kid had tension between them, the release of RTK's "Dead Friends" should be enough to confirm that. Rich The Kid dropped off his latest single, "Dead Friends" yesterday where he fired off several shots at Lil Uzi Vert but, it doesn't look like RTK is expecting a response from the "Money Longer" rapper.

While speaking with Rap-Up, Rich The Kid spoke on his latest single, "Dead Friends." The rapper revealed that he wrote the song a few months a go and once he previewed the snippet, people automatically assumed it was a diss track towards Lil Uzi Vert.

"When I put the snippet up, everybody started putting diss to it, you know what I'm saying. If you take it however you want to take it, you gon' feel however you feel." He said.

Despite this, he doesn't expect any sort of response from Lil Uzi Vert, at least not through music.

"I doubt it, not on a music level." He said about the chances of Lil Uzi Vert responding, "I'm really not looking for him to respond."

Aside from his beef with Uzi, the rapper also revealed that he already has another album ready to follow up The World Is Yours. He said that anything that didn't make this album is likely on the next including his previously-hinted Kanye West and Frank Ocean collabs.

Peep the interview below. 


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