'Save your money, stay fly, wear condoms and keep living life.' ICYMI, Read i-D's playboicarti interview from 2017 here:
There’s something pertinent about the way that, on the day Tupac Shakur drew his last breath in a Las Vegas hospital room, some 2000 miles away Jordan Terrell Carter was surveying his surroundings and gulping down his very first. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, on a cool 13th of September 1996, to compare the two is not to say that Carter – better known as the A$AP-fraternising,New York Times
once noted, “more at ease with the performance of the role than with the actual act of rapping.” But, in the way that he draws in everything that floats around the genre in 2017 – the hedonism, the consumerism, the inevitable fashion hookups – and reduces it down to its most potent form, Carti epitomises hip-hop right now, just as Shakur did its 90s golden age.a rapper. When we meet in a London photography studio, Carti, doe-eyed and high cheekboned , is a walking contradiction.
Working with Awful Records mainstay Ethereal, he set about amassing the kind of SoundCloud following that becomes difficult to keep in only one place for too long. Together, they turned out tracks including the lean-bleeding. “Atlanta people give you a chance on the music,” Carti says of the city. But by then the young artist was already plotting his next move. “It’s a cultural movement, man, and once you get that buzz...
“It’s our time and you can’t never worry about nobody peeing on you unless it’s your fans. You gotta give it to them raw, because they’re gonna like you for who you are.”in June. The third single from his eponymous debut mixtape,, the track would go on to peak at number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100, inspire a freestyle from Lil Wayne, and earn the co-sign of Jay-Z, who cited the track, alongside Prince and Marvin Gaye, as the only rap song to influence his critically acclaimedalbum.
“We just put ourselves in that position,” he says of a carefree new breed that includes self-styled rockstar Lil Uzi, as well as fellow Atlantans Lil Yachty and 21 Savage. “It’s our time and you can’t never worry about nobody peeing on you unless it’s your fans. You gotta give it to them raw, because they’re gonna like you for who you are.” He continues, sucking from a juice box handed to him by a minder. “I feel like for young rappers, just keep going and fuck everybody.
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