Looking at his merch, his style, his tweets, the overall art direction makes me feel like the music is gonna be some groundbreaking anti-everything arrogant punk bars but then you actually listen and it's weak and generic

I'm not even hating bc the branding is hard and clearly it's working to build hype, just sucks that the music so far hasn't matched it at all, and probably still won't on WLR. I'd be more than happily surprised if he does something conceptual, or outgoing, sonically or lyrically but I think we can just expect more s*** like

"Pull up on your block and we shootin' s***
Pull up on your b**** and I'm hittin' it
Hittin' on your b****, yeah, I'm killin' it"

Over Pi'erre beats

inb4 hate
inb4

those are thug bars in op crine

e: OP F***ING LOST

PUNK RAP OUT NOW!!!!

Cartilage

op dumb as s***

1. That’s young thug line
2. How have y’all not caught on that carti is inspired by punk style and aesthetic. Not the actual message

Speaking out ya ass

1. you right
2. I get that I just think it's stupid, why would you go so hard with branding that's not at all reflected in your music

where am I wrong

It’s actually genius

how so

I don’t think anything is wrong with it unless he starts saying or calling him self punk. But just being inspired and using the style I don’t think anything’s wrong with it

I'm not saying Carti should rap like Kendrick Lamar lol I'm just saying he's using all this punk/death metal branding to sell the same generic subject matter he always has

Theirs no substance to what hes doing

Some Mario guy crawled up from under a dumpster and almost jacked his whole s***

More feel than branding.

Niggas anticipated his music before the +! s***.

carti markets himself as this punk icon but then his actual content is just dollar store young thug & lil uzi with less substance

I should make the distinction that I don't think it's wrong, I'm not "gatekeeping punk", it just feels corny and has so much potential to be great
Like imagine if he did experiment with his sound to match all the imagery

Now y’all please keep the same energy when Uzi hyped up EA to be some mystic space album and it ended up being the same monotonous flows for like half the songs

hes right tho

at least EA had a strong concept throughout & a storyline to make up for it

I know for a fact Carti doesn't listen to the clash or s***pistols or whatever, I'm not even saying he should act like he does, I know the branding is coming from fashion s*** like Vivienne Westwood, Jun Takahashi and Takahiro Miyashita, I'm just saying he should at least explore different subject matter or sounds in the music if he's gonna rely on that kind of branding for this rollout

That Pain 1993 verse is still trash

EA
Strong concept
Pick one

Carti is trash