Playboi Carti Looks Locked In During Rolling Loud Europe Set As Fans Pray For The New Album

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 14: Playboi Carti performs during 2019 Rolling Loud LA at Banc of California Stadium on December 14, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Timothy Norris/WireImage/Getty Images)
We got the clearest picture of Playboi Carti we've had in years, and fans are using this to cope and hope that the album is coming soon.

Let's use our imagination real quick: it's 2060, your grandchild just took his first steps, and Playboi Carti finally released the follow-up album to Whole Lotta Red. While many fans hope that we get this new project in 2024 after relentless teases and promises, this future fantasy is the more likely outcome at this point. But that doesn't mean that we won't wait patiently as long as he keeps engaging with fans, as he recently did in electric fashion at Rolling Loud Vienna over the weekend. On Opium's Instagram page (or Carti's finsta, maybe? A promo account? Who knows?), a new picture appeared of the Atlanta rapper at the festival, and it's the clearest photo we've gotten of him in quite a while.

Furthermore, delusional fans online (don't worry, so are we) hope that this suggests the album is coming very soon, and that these new performances will fuel something greater. What's more is that producer Cardo recently spoke on "finishing up" Playboi Carti's new album very recently, adding fuel to that fire. "I don't know, man, it's been going crazy. That's all I know... In a good way. It's been crazy fun," he expressed in a new video.

Playboi Carti At Rolling Loud Vienna

In addition to all this, it's not like Playboi Carti stopped giving us song snippets previewing his work, as the most recent of these landed just a couple of weeks ago. Still, they did become much less frequent after the barrage of new tracks in late 2023 and early 2024. So no one really knows what's going on with this new album or why it hasn't dropped yet, whether because he's a perfectionist, leaks, label issues, and all those other speculative coping mechanisms. Maybe, just maybe, we'll get an answer to this soon.

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Meanwhile, we know that as long as Playboi Carti continues to perform, he can maintain a whole lot of hype and excitement around him and his artistry regardless of new album drops. He ranked among the best sets at Summer Smash this year, a tall order with such a stacked lineup. Hopefully these festival sets and the like continue to build off one another and are contributing to upcoming releases. Also, with a lot of allegations emerging against him and Opium in the past few years, we can't imagine that this made things any easier.

About The Author
Gabriel Bras Nevares is a staff writer for HotNewHipHop. He joined HNHH while completing his B.A. in Journalism & Mass Communication at The George Washington University in the summer of 2022. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Gabriel treasures the crossover between his native reggaetón and hip-hop news coverage, such as his review for Bad Bunny’s hometown concert in 2024. But more specifically, he digs for the deeper side of hip-hop conversations, whether that’s the “death” of the genre in 2023, the lyrical and parasocial intricacies of the Kendrick Lamar and Drake battle, or the many moving parts of the Young Thug and YSL RICO case. Beyond engaging and breaking news coverage, Gabriel makes the most out of his concert obsessions, reviewing and recapping festivals like Rolling Loud Miami and Camp Flog Gnaw. He’s also developed a strong editorial voice through album reviews, think-pieces, and interviews with some of the genre’s brightest upstarts and most enduring obscured gems like Homeboy Sandman, Bktherula, Bas, and Devin Malik.
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