Playboi Carti Releases Third Album ‘Music’

It’s been a protracted wait — made longer after lacking the standard midnight launch time for a brand new album — however after greater than 4 years, Playboi Carti has lastly dropped his newest album.

The brand new album, merely titled Music, is Carti’s third album general and his first since dropping Entire Lotta Crimson on Christmas Day again in 2020. The album is prolonged, clocking at an hour and 17 minutes with 30 songs, and it’s notably star-studded with visitor options from The Weeknd, Travis Scott, Future, Younger Thug, Lil Uzi Vert and Younger Thug and Kendrick Lamar.

Kanye West didn’t appear to be a fan of that latter characteristic, with the rapper dissing Lamar’s verse on Friday, posting on his X account that “I DONT LIKE KENDRICK LAMARS MUSIC.”

“HE RAPS VERY GOOD BUT I DIDNT NEED TO HEAR HIM ON CARTI ALBUM,” West, who has as soon as once more embroiled himself in controversy in current weeks for antisemitic social media posts, wrote. West has collaborated with each Carti and Lamar in his profession. Most lately, Carti was featured on West and Ty Dolla $ign’s “Carnival.” Lamar was featured on “No More Parties in LA” on West’s 2016 album The Lifetime of Pablo.

Carti launched the album early Friday morning, suggesting that Thug’s characteristic contributed to the hours-long delay, as Carti posted on X thursday evening that he “HAD 2 MAKE SURE SLIMEEEE WAS ON DIS MF.”

Carti has turn into one of the crucial influential artists in rap since dropping his debut mixtape again in 2017, bolstered by the entice hit “Magnolia,” which has since gone triple platinum. Carti’s followers had been feverishly ready for a brand new album for years, and the rapper lastly confirmed the brand new undertaking would come out earlier this week.

One of the vital anticipated data in hip hop, the album will doubtless be a chart smash. Whereas he hasn’t launched an album since 2020 till at present, Carti’s been featured on distinguished tracks like Travis Scott’s “Fein,” and Future and Metro Boomin’s “Type Shit.”

Carti will doubtless be closely pushing new the album throughout a headlining set at Rolling Loud Los Angeles on Saturday.