Playboi Carti

• Playboi Carti [AWGE/Interscope, 2017] A-
• Whole Lotta Red [AWGE/Interscope, 2020] *

Consumer Guide Reviews:

Playboi Carti [AWGE/Interscope, 2017]
If Migos are the Beatles, this diamond-collecting pretty boy crosses the Raspberries and the Archies. A pimp-identified Blood or vice versa whose idea of social consciousness is not to drink lean and drive and whose idea of a thrill is meeting Raf Simons (look it up, I had to), he is definitely, like they type, FUN. His playful flow careless of consonants, Carti makes exactly as much as he should of spare beats that ease from the faux flute of "dothatshit!" to the faux rhinoceros-huff of "Lame Niggaz." Nahmean? A-

Whole Lotta Red [AWGE/Interscope, 2020]
Sounds like nobody else, means as little as any rapper of consequence ever ("Rockstar Mode," "Punk Mode") *