"You Was Right" received over 45 million streams onSoundCloud in the period of six months.[2] Included inLil Uzi Vert vs. the World as the fifth track, the song peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 40.
The song has sold more than two million copies in the United States and was certified double-platinum byRecording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on February 26, 2018. It was previously, in 2017, certified gold and platinum on January 6 and March 2, respectively.[3] "You Was Right" is Uzi Vert's first solo single to be certified platinum in the United States, with their second platinum-certified solo single appearing three weeks later.[4][5]
The official music video was released on October 5, 2016. Based onAlice's Adventures in Wonderland, it features Lil Uzi Vert andMetro Boomin asMad Hatters in a tea party, with the latter handling anMPC.[4][6] It was directed by Spike Jordan,[7] showing Uzi Vert walking into a door that transforms their reality into a fantasy, in which bunnies are shown hopping around and beautiful women with "some hypnotic eyes strolling in their fuzzy Puma slippers in a tea party picnic filled with stacks of cash." As noted byComplex, in the video Uzi Vert walks into a "chandelier-filled mansion with lovestruck women following [them] around."[8] Uzi Vert's then-partner Brittany Byrd was among the women in the video.[6][9]
On May 9, 2017, an animated music video, produced by SomeHoodlum, was released to YouTube with the length of a minute.[10] It was described by The Fader as a "trippy cartoon" which features Uzi Vert "riding [their] four-wheeler down a street and off a cliff" alongside Boomin.[11][12]
