Zuri Speaks Out on Lucy’s Loosies Being Scrapped — and the Community That Held Her Up
“I got the text that he wasn’t greenlighting the project at my own birthday party. I was in shock.” Even after she asked him why he was scrapping the album, he never responded again.
written by Tranae Cearnal | Feb 5, 2026
photos by TJ Minor (@tj.pgmd)
Lucy’s Loosies is a project that Richmond rapper Zuri is proud of. So much so, she invited community members out before the holidays for a private listening party and to ask for assistance on bringing the album to the city and to life. The body of work was incredible. But soon after the listening party, Zuri says her producer contacted her after weeks of ghosting her to inform her he would no longer be greenlighting the project.
In an exclusive interview with The Richmond Seen, Zuri speaks of the trauma she’s experienced with her album being scrapped, and what’s next in music.
When asked if there were red flags, Zuri says, “I was doing a lot of communicating. Asking him, ‘Hey, is it okay for me to use the beats?’ He said, ‘yes.’ But he was dragging his feet. When I asked about the mixing of the album, he ghosted me.”
She further explained to TRS that she asked on several occasions if he had listened to the Lucy’s Loosies tape, and he never confirmed. “He never told me if he listened to the tape or not,” she stated.
Zuri invited her producer to the Lucy’s Loosies party at Le Cache Dulcet, to which he refused. “He said he was going to be in New York.”
Zuri confides that even with the lack of communication between herself and the producer, she still had faith the project was going to continue until the night of her birthday. “I got the text that he wasn’t greenlighting the project at my own birthday party. I was in shock.” Even after she asked him why he was scrapping the album, he never responded again.
She says the aftermath has left her humiliated and spiraled her into a dark place. “To know I put that much effort into something… it really hurt. That’s time and effort that I can’t get back. I just lost a whole body of work, and that’s traumatizing. It threw me into a few depressive spells.”
She continues, “I tried to do a 180. I’ve reached out to producers and they are ghosting.” But ultimately, Zuri felt Lucy’s Loosies, although “special,” was its own creation with that category of beats, and there is no need to re-do it. “The lyrics and beats had their own synergy.”
The experience has made her question her musical ability and future collaborations with other local producers. “I don’t want to collab with anybody. I appreciate the people in Richmond. But it made me feel like I’m better off getting beats off of YouTube….”
Zuri ends with, although down, she is a creative and will continue in her craft. She says, “I just wanna say thank you to anybody that I’ve told about the situation: [TRS], Mike Millions, Mike Street, Pat from Le Cache, for helping me navigate the situation. It made me realize that people in my community do care, and they wanna help, and they wanna rally behind me.”
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