The current single for the album, “Magnolia” is a hype track that lets you know what Carti does best. The album is primarily for turning up in the car, at parties or simply to have fun. Once the countdown ended, the album was up on streaming services everywhere. After this a website called appeared with a countdown timer and the hashtag #cartiseason, according to The Fader. However, Carti’s music undeniably catapulted him into the position that he’s currently in.īefore dropping the album, Carti surprised fans by releasing two singles featuring his mumble rap contemporary Lil Uzi Vert. The people around Carti and his image alone were enough to turn him into one of the biggest new faces in hip-hop. In his earlier interviews, Carti made sure to have two women around him to create his “playboy” image.
It is a visual representation of his star status, which has been apparent since the beginning of his career. The album cover finds Carti sitting in a bed with two beautiful women and smoking.
He has appeared in OVO lookbooks, and Ian Connor taught him how to be a great performer and pushed him into rap super-stardom. He is styled by designer Shane Gonzales on his album cover. He proclaims that A$AP Rocky is his “dad.” He was once a part of Awful Records family. Playboi Carti is a conception of the culture.
While making the mixtape Carti spent time enjoying his new life – he could be seen online doing things like starring in “Yeezy Season 3,” meeting Raf Simons at New York Fashion Week and flexing at the train station alongside A$AP Rocky and A$AP Bari.
With tracks like “Broke Boi,” “Fetti” and “What,” the Atlanta native has delivered bangers time and again, causing fans to become impatient for his debut release.
Released on the same day as Kendrick Lamar’s “DAMN,” Carti is maintaining hip-hop’s balance of fun with an album full of absolute stunting from beginning to end.īefore signing to A$AP Rocky’s label AWGE, the underground scene has waited for Carti to drop a whole project. Last Friday, rapper Playboy Carti released his highly anticipated self-titled debut mixtape.