It is also the third project released by Lil Uzi Vert in the year, following Eternal Atake and its deluxe reissue, notably after their hiatus from 2018 to 2019.

Both Future and Lil Uzi Vert blanked their Instagram pages on July 21, 2020, and proceeded to upload a visual teaser directed by Hype Williams, intended to announce an upcoming project titled "Pluto x Baby Pluto".

[9][10] On July 31, 2020, Lil Uzi's 25th birthday, the duo released two joint songs titled "Patek" and "Over Your Head",[11] both of which would later turn out to be on the deluxe edition of the album.

[12] On November 11, 2020, both artists officially announced the joint project on their social media via another trailer.

[14] The album also accumulated a total of 136.11 million on-demand US streams from all its tracks, in the week ending November 28, 2020.