'Music' of Playboi Carti is beautiful, but …

With its 30 tracks, for an hour and a quarter of duration, Music It is the binge that the fans of Playboi Carti wanted. It is to see if it is fresh or heated stuff. WHOLE FIGHT RED of 2020 has become the model for dozens, if not hundreds of rapper who imitate it the way of transforming the voice. None of them, however, can touch the levels of imagination and creativity of the Rapper of Atlanta. Even when he sings in a little inspired way or it is staring maniacally on drugs, women and cars, he does it with a true star magnetism.

If in WHOLE FIGHT RED Carti managed to fascinate for the way he transformed the flow, perhaps inspired at least in part from the end of the relationship with Iggy Azalea, we find it in Music aware of its generational talent potential. It almost seems to see him at the top of the mountain of the fame he climbed while he rethink the road he made and the dreams he had, enjoys the panorama and reflects on the inevitable descent. As he says at the beginning of Dis 1 Got It“I'm working on my death”.

To cure the music is Swamp Izzo, the DJ of Atlanta who edited the first Young Thug mixes. The latter, Kendrick Lamar, Future and Lil Uzi Vert appear in various tracks of Music And, even more importantly, parts on which Carti Rappa improvise, the demonstration of how much central has become his language (one of the pieces with Thug, We need all from vibesis taken from a demo made before ending up in prison in 2022). “I had a white bitch like Julz, but it's not a model,” he sings carti at some point, to which Lamar replies: “But is it not a thing?”. They look like friends who smoke and causing a night session. But then Skepta arrives who places a verse to scream on Toxicadding a little weight to the disc.

If you play carti playboi has escaped the dangers of the so -called mumble rap, a definition often used to diminish the artists of the Gen Z, it is because of her way of rapping, perhaps influenced by the asthma of which it suffers. It changes tone from one piece to another and does so in such a radical way that it seems to feel different interpreters. Canta Jumpin like one, this wrote Olivier Lafontant of Pitchfort“Who drugs in a dark room.” In Pop out He screams in a Rauco tone that “whenever we go out the bitches they get nervous”. In Dis 1 Got i The rumor is so similar to that of future that it is doubtful that it really is him. And then of course there is his famous baby voice which has used great in the past, for example in Die Lit of 2018, and that returns to End Shit.

The bases that float between the industrial noise (Cocaine nose), the 8-bit Vaporwave (Like Weezy) and charleston of the southern hip hop (Radar). Assembled by a half army of producers, have a nice impact, even if songs like Wake Up F1Lthy And Charge dem hoes in Fee they are trivial, while others like OPM Babi They shine with a strangely seductive funk. The problem is that the precious interiors of Musicto mention the automotive slang that Cardi appreciates, they cannot divert attention from what is or is not under the hood.

Even the texts of carti, like those of most rapper, reflect the obsession with the dynamics of power. Here then that women, cars and drugs are accumulated as successful symbols. Is an exception Rather liewhich begins with a melense refrain of The Weeknd and continues with carts that boasts of having captured one cougarto then ask: “The opposites attract, how do you be happy and then to get angry?”, A reference to the fact that in real life people fight to keep their relationships standing. More typical of carti is the passage of K-pop in which he says that “I have a slut that wants to fuck with the gang and that has stained the floor”. Maybe for fans of carti such texts they give some shivers, but behind the millionaire porn dreams there are hidden meanings. Carti has entrusted the co-production of Backd00r At the chinyman convinced anti -Semitic Kanye West (with him he arrived for the first time at the top of the American ranking with Carnival last year) and flirt with a dark and satanic imagination on Instagram. In other words, Music It is the reflection of an environment in which power, coercion and violence decree winners and losers.

The problem of Music It is not only the excessive length, which is all in all acceptable as typical of the genre (apparently the discs today last 30 minutes or seem to go on indefinitely). The problem is that the texts express feelings that Carti then cannot explore in depth. Take HBAwhere he mentions the fact that he had two children and therefore suggests the image of the father who churns out one hit after the other to ensure for the offspring the wealth he has not had. “I am a son of the crack, I was raised by drugs,” he says in South Atlanta Baby (The metaphor recalls the Young Dolph single In My System). But how does a childhood of that genre influences the choices it makes today?

Perhaps it is to ask for too much to those who have all this talent in creating sounds. However, this is the challenge that Carti will face in the future. “You see, to many of you Fuck Niggas It will seem the end of the world, but for those of my tour it is a new beginning “, shouts DJ Swamp Izzo in Radar. Maybe it was so.

From Rolling Stone Us.