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Playboi Carti Gets Lost in the Music
The new album feels closer to an apology than a return to form.
Uzi’s curt Eternal Atake 2 dragged, as did Scott’s “Hot 100” shooting star “4x4.” While Carti fans pestered him for a follow-up, the vocal theatrics and synth saturation he favors trickled into the topsoil, feeding mainstream rap. And later, in the deceptively saccharine “Fine Shit,” a crusty, percussive “The money gon’ talk!” interrupting soft crooning, like a lech yelling at the TV as the lead in a rom-com begins to trust a love interest. You couldn’t make Carti take himself as seriously as sticklers for bars desire and get anything half as loony as the crunchy, Ashanti-flipping “Cocaine Nose.” It is similarly unwise to bask in the airs of lawlessness in modern rap without stopping to ponder their real-world ramifications.
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