After Die Lit, fans were desperate for more. But Whole Lotta Red didn’t just follow it—it flipped the script. From endless ...

One new-school, streaming-era approach has major stars dropping albums with little to no advance notice, as when Kendrick Lamar dropped GNX with no warning in December, or when Playboi Carti ...

One new-school, streaming-era approach has major stars dropping albums with little to no advance notice, as when Kendrick Lamar dropped GNX with no warning in December, or when Playboi Carti released ...

Playboi Carti’s “I Am Music” shattered streaming records of the year so far, and his Opium label has evolved into an aesthetic that has influenced fashion, culture and artistic identity. Isaac Vergun, ...

Combining the vamp-industrial rage-trap aesthetics of “Whole Lotta Red,” with the minimalist, baby-voiced and psychedelic world imagined in “Die Lit,” Playboi Carti’s “MUSIC” is the latest and ...