Playboi Carti is already taking up 2024 with new music. To kick off the brand new 12 months Monday (Jan. 1), he dropped “BACKR00MS,” that includes Travis Scott, completely on YouTube.
The practically three-minute visible is already No. 1 on Trending, with 4.4 million views in 17 hours on the time this text was printed. It’s the second video the rapper has dropped on his YouTube channel, following “2024,” which has practically 21 million views in two weeks and is No. 7 on Trending for music. “2024” is produced by Kanye West, Earl on the Beat and Ojivolta.
“BACKR00MS” arrives six months after Carti and Scott linked up on “FE!N” from the latter’s Grammy-nominated album Utopia. They carried out it collectively throughout Scott’s Utopia – Circus Maximus Tour cease at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium. Throughout his pit cease at The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, Scott defined why he carried out “FE!N” 10 instances throughout his Barclays Heart present. “Man, I’ve the perfect followers on the earth and I’m going off the vitality they provide me, and so they have been wild that evening, and so I simply bought even wilder,” he stated. “BACKR00MS” is Carti and Scott’s fourth collaboration, following “Inexperienced and Purple” (2017), “Love Hurts” (2018) and “FE!N” (2022).
Final month, Carti started shock dropping songs completely as music movies both on the @opium_00pium account, together with “Completely different Day” and “H00DBYAIR,” or on his YouTube channel. At press time, all 4 songs are at the moment unavailable on DSPs.
The songs appear to be part of his upcoming third studio album, which is tentatively titled Music or I Am Music. It’s been three years since Carti dropped his final album, Complete Lotta Crimson, by way of AWGE and Interscope Information. Launched on Christmas Day 2020, the 24-track mission debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
