Die Lit

Even before Playboi Carti’s breakout single, “Magnolia,” early fans were expressing an insatiable demand for new music from the rapper. *Die Lit* comes a year after the self-titled album that brought us that hit, with 19 tracks to make up for the wait. Having joked openly about being called a “mumble rapper,” Carti aggressively leans into the distinction here, thickening his Atlanta accent and even pitching up his delivery on songs like the spacey “Fell in Luv” and “FlatBed Freestyle,” where his couplets devolve into rhythmic yet indecipherable vocals. On the whole, *Die Lit* is a collection of earworms built on minimal and bass-heavy production from Pi\'erre Bourne, assisted occasionally by contributors like Lil Uzi Vert, Skepta, and Nicki Minaj.

The Atlanta rapper’s official debut is an album that works almost completely from its own lunatic script. It is a perversely infectious sugar high, rap that fundamentally recalibrates the brain’s reward centers.

A year after the release of his debut mixtape, Atlanta rapper Playboi Carti issued his first official studio album, Die Lit.

Playboi Carti's brand of post-verbal bangers are less about what you hear and more about what you feel as you're listening. If you can recon...

On his debut studio album, Die Lit, Playboi Carti’s formula remains relatively the same as found on last year’s self-titled mixtape: the rapper recites lines and hooks driven by impulse, no matter how underdeveloped, like these sparks of ideas would immediately disappear if he didn’t put them on record.

Playboi Carti - Die Lit review: Playboi Carti crafts a cloudy, effervescent piece of rap workmanship, chock full of moody pleasures.