The Weeknd Taps Playboi Carti For New Single After Sharing Album Cover
The Weeknd has recruited Playboi Carti to assist debut a brand new single simply hours after he unveiled the quilt artwork for his new album.
The singer born Abel Tesfaye carried out an epic live performance at MorumBIS Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Saturday (September 7).
The present, which was additionally livestreamed on YouTube, featured a model new stage design, plus plenty of new songs from The Weeknd’s forthcoming album, Hurry Up Tomorrow.
For a kind of new joints, he introduced Playboi Carti, with whom he has beforehand collaborated on final yr’s “Popular.” Carti additionally carried out his Travis Scott collab “FE!N.”
Just hours earlier than the efficiency, the Canadian crooner shared the brand new cowl artwork for Hurry Up Tomorrow on Instagram, the place he had revealed the undertaking’s title 4 days prior.
He captioned the photograph of the paintings, which consists merely of his face, with an announcement that the pre-order hyperlink for the upcoming undertaking is accessible by way of the bio on his IG profile. An official launch date for the album has but to be confirmed.
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While it’s unclear if the brand new collab will wind up on Hurry Up Tomorrow or Carti’s extremely anticipated forthcoming album, rap followers from all walks of life are virtually begging the “New Tank” rapper to drop his new undertaking.
The rapper can’t even use a Finsta account with out getting reminded that he hasn’t launched an album in 4 years, because the NBA’s Orlando Magic demonstrated.
Earlier this month, Carti posted to his opium_00pium IG plenty of images of him sporting a Penny Hardaway jersey from his days on the Magic.
That identical day, the Magic’s official X account reposted one of many images, captioning it: “drop the album @playboicarti.”
The Magic’s playful submit amused each basketball and Carti followers.
“[You know] its bad when the orlando magic tellin you to drop the album,” one individual commented.
“Magic got 22 year olds running the socials,” stated another.
Carti’s final album Whole Lotta Red was launched in late 2020.
In Carti’s current Billboard cowl story, producer Cardo — whose credit embrace Drake‘s “God’s Plan,” Travis Scott‘s “Goosebumps” and Kendrick Lamar‘s “Euphoria” — suggested that he and the Atlanta rapper have pioneered a whole new subgenre with the project.
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“Carti’s style is in constant evolution, and he and Cardo already have a name for the sound they’ve been workshopping for the project: ‘burnt music,’” the article reads.
“We’ll be in the studio, like, ‘This music is burnt,’” defined Cardo, who soundtracked Carti’s current singles “H00DBYAIR,” “EVILJ0RDAN” and the Travis Scott-assisted “BACKR00MS.”
The producer additionally cited Three 6 Mafia’s DJ Paul and Juicy J, DJ Toomp, The Legendary Traxster and even John Carpenter — the director and composer behind traditional horror motion pictures like Halloween, The Thing and Escape From New York — as influences for I Am Music.
