It’s been a year since his last release, 2018’s Die Lit, and his fans have been clamoring for new music. The album he’s talking about is Whole Lotta Red, his highly anticipated third full-length and second studio album.

This shit could go on my album, but if it goes on the album, then we gotta change the whole thing.” “I got a whole ‘nother tape with this nigga,” Carti says. Though the two have known each other for years, this was their first time working together one-on-one. In between back-to-back weekends of Coachella performances, he had been up for days recording in L.A. When I first arrived at the house, at around 5 p.m., Carti was still waking up. Besides going to the studio, there isn’t much for him to do in his hometown. Carti says the gun range is one of the few activities that gets him out of the house. On the wall near the refrigerator, there’s a framed gun range target sheet with a cluster of mostly accurate bullet holes in the outlined head and chest. The family photos are Iggy’s - Carti says she handled the interior decorating: “I ain’t do all this, that was her” - but there are a few clear signs that he lives here too.

(He may be one of the few people to have eaten nuggets from McDonald’s while being outfitted for a Louis Vuitton runway show.) If 2017’s Playboi Carti (which included the Lil Uzi Vert collaboration “Wokeuplikethis*” and the ubiquitous “Magnolia”) set the bar, 2018’s Die Lit ripped it out and knocked a wall down with it.The Atlanta native and his girlfriend, the rapper Iggy Azalea, have been living here for the past six months, having relocated from Los Angeles. The gambit is clear: Like Cam’ron’s embrace of the colour pink or Young Thug’s trailblazing sing-song, Carti’s babble is a middle finger to preconceived notions of what it means to be a rapper, and to rap’s general tendency towards masculine tough talk-or, as a line on 2018’s “R.I.P.” went, “Fuck that mumblin’ shit, fuck that mumblin’ shit/Bought a crib for my momma off that mumblin’ shit.” Forget being a voice of authority, there are times it doesn’t even sound like Carti is saying words.īorn Jordan Carter in 1996, Carti got his start in the Atlanta underground, connecting with A$AP Rocky at a festival in 2015-a relationship that vaulted him towards the mainstream and also put him at the emerging junction between streetwear and high fashion. Punky, exhilarating and daringly simple, Carti’s music pushes the bright minimalism of 2010s trap to almost abstract extremes, combining twinkly synths with noisy bass and a flow that sounds like one long ad-lib, or-yeah, let’s get it out there-baby talk. 'Playboi Carti is one of those rappers who represents a creative line in the sand: Either you’re with it or you ain’t.

When i heard that playboi carti tape