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Lil Uzi Vert Parades Pet Monkey Piccola Through a High-Rise and Drops a Cryptic Album Hint
Lil Uzi Vert posted a video of his pet monkey Piccola in a high-rise, captioning it with "Being able to take care of you is a blessing" and giving the animal an Instagram bio that reads "tempo per l'album," a hint that new music could be on the way.
There are few artists who treat their social feeds like a running novel the way Lil Uzi Vert does. On Wednesday, May 27, the Philadelphia rapper added a short but telling chapter: a sunlit clip of him carrying a small capuchin through what looks like a spacious high-rise, cradling the animal like an infant and pressing a quick kiss to the top of its head.
The footage, posted to the Instagram account credited as piccola.piccola.piccola16, feels immediate and a little uncanny. Uzi walks room to room — hardwood floors, a floor-to-ceiling window catching afternoon glare — while Piccola, the monkey, peers out and curls against him. It’s affectionate and oddly casual, the kind of domestic moment you wouldn’t expect to double as a rollout move.
“Being able to take care of you is a blessing,” Uzi wrote in the clip’s caption. “The orphan from space [alien emoji, UFO emoji, monkey emoji].”
He even created an Instagram for the animal. In Piccola’s bio sits a terse line in Italian: “tempo per l’album” — time for the album. On another post, a carousel of photos of the monkey carries the caption “Early Studio sesh.” Those two small details turn a pet reveal into an implicit studio update: a domestic image folding into the next chapter of promo.
Piccola’s bio: “tempo per l’album”
Carousel caption: “Early Studio sesh.”
Elsewhere, Uzi’s release history gives the tease some teeth. Baby Pluto’s last full-length was Eternal Atake 2, which arrived in November 2024. In March, he dropped a vlog on YouTube saying he was back in the lab and hoped to put out new music this year. If you know Uzi’s rhythms, social media moments and album cycles are rarely separate things; they feed each other.
There’s a performative streak to the whole thing. The monkey gives him a soft, almost absurd mascot for whatever comes next — cute enough to trend, weird enough to insist people watch. Uzi has long blurred the line between persona and private life, from fashion stunts to eccentric interviews. This is another iteration: intimacy as tease.
And then, because nothing about Uzi’s public life is ever linear, earlier this month he told Instagram personality deeswishh that he could be robbed with mayonnaise. It’s a throwaway line that lands oddly after the domestic monkey footage — a reminder that Uzi’s humor and danger coexist in the same breath.
Whether Piccola is actually in the studio or simply an emblem for whatever Uzi is cooking, the posts matter. They shape expectations, feed threads, and turn ordinary gestures into clues. Fans will parse the monkey’s bio and the timing; labels and playlists will take notes. For now the image is simple: Uzi holding a small, curious animal, planting a kiss, and letting a quiet caption do the rest.
It’s truer to say this moment raises questions rather than answers them. Is Piccola a literal studio companion, a PR idea, or both? If Uzi is back in the studio, we already know to expect his usual mix of impulsive stunts and sharp hooks. The monkey cameo is, at once, only a pet and also the softest possible herald of new music.
