“I AM MUSIC
THE ALBUM
LINK IN BIO”
The hyperlink to Carti’s on-line retailer options merch field units with hats, hoodies, and vinyl copies of I Am Music, regardless of there nonetheless not being an official launch date. The positioning makes notice that each one gadgets will ship on April 18, 2025.
September 13, 2024
“All Purple” is formally launched on Carti’s birthday, the primary “official” solo launch in his catalog since Complete Lotta Purple. Expectedly, followers go loopy on-line whereas additionally carrying backward NBA jerseys. It’s been mentioned 1,000,000 instances earlier than, however, on this monitor, his supply strikingly resembles Future over F1lthy’s calamitous instrumental. I had a pal earnestly ask me if the road “The other way up cross tat on my neck, shut ’em up” was recorded via an AI voice filter.
To have fun the “All Purple” launch, Carti posts an unofficial I Am Music album cowl in homage to Lil Wayne’s Dedication mixtape collection.
September 15, 2024
Carti posts one other snippet to his IG story. This time it’s a video of him taking part in an unreleased track to a child in a stroller who dances alongside, waving his little arms like a site visitors guard. Carti mimics him as his icy shards of Auto-Tune plead “How do I do know that you just down for me?” The beat kinda resembles Ken Carson’s bubbly 2023 sleeper “Pots.”
November 16, 2024
In a joint-headlining occasion with Travis Scott, at ComplexCon, Carti debuts one other new track, this one paying homage to Jay-Z’s “Jigga My Nigga” by proclaiming, “What’s my mothafuckin’ title?”
November 17, 2024
Carti alludes to Ye engaged on the manufacturing for I Am Music at a membership efficiency. “Shoutout to my nigga Kanye,” he says into the mic. “Huge bro been making beats and shit, that album gon’ be loopy.”
November 18, 2024
Following a efficiency at Camp Flog Gnaw, Carti tells a gaggle of followers “I’m tryna try this shit on my own” when requested if the brand new album may have any options. Simply earlier than then, Carti asks them if they need the album to drop in 2024 or in January, to which one dude replies “Everytime you need bro!” Protected to say followers on-line weren’t rocking with that.
November 20, 2024
One other music video snippet goes up on Carti’s Instagram story with Kanye’s account tagged within the publish. Behind studio footage that appears prefer it was ripped from Nokia telephone, Carti’s uncooked vocals lilt over buoyant sub bass and one other soul pattern. Between the tied dreads, white tank, and black shades he has on, the Lil Wayne methodology appearing reaches a brand new degree.
November 21, 2024
Playboi Carti drops one other single on his spam IG with the caption, “PLAY THIS.” Right here, he reverts to Die Lit–period melodies over flowery plucks of synth. There isn’t any music video, however the thumbnail contains a photograph of Babyxsosa, the Virginia-born singer/rapper whom he as soon as shouted out on a 2022 loosie with A$AP Rocky known as “Sights / Our De$tiny.”
December 12, 2024
Carti posts a music video snippet on the finish of a photograph dump filled with studio session match pics and money-filled Goyard luggage. Within the video, he cleans jewellery with a toothbrush and watches Mike Dean do bong rips on Facetime. There are not any lyrics within the snippet, solely a Kanye-like instrumental passage during which a choir repeats a chorus of “Medicine acquired me numb/Love acquired me numb.”
December 15, 2024
For Rolling Loud’s 10-year anniversary (loopy, proper?), Carti serves because the headliner for the ultimate evening. The build-up to his efficiency is compounded by RL co-founder Tariq Cherif affirming that I Am Music will likely be performed reside. For the efficiency, Carti pulls out the classics (“Sky,” “Cease Respiratory,” “Shoota”) and up to date solo highlights (“H00dByAir,” “2024”) and splices them with 5 unreleased tracks. Two of the unreleased tracks respectively function Travis Scott and the Weeknd. After the present, Carti posted a snippet to his spam of “Crush,” the unreleased Travis collab. In it you may hear Travis Scott’s trademark “Straight up!” adlib adopted by a spiraling synth lead.
December 20, 2024
Like he’s making an attempt to persuade himself it’s nonetheless taking place, Akademiks makes an announcement for the third consecutive December that, “Carti is on the WAY! Calm down.”
December 27, 2024
The ultimate Friday of 2024 comes together with no album in sight, and Carti followers begin to settle for the truth that they’ll have to attend till the brand new yr. Subsequently, #IAMLIAR begins to development in the neighborhood with essentially the most egregious memes and AI mockups you’ll see on-line.
