Carti is now touring arenas for the first time in his career. A major festival-headlining gig feels inevitable for the taciturn Atlantan, who is tantalizingly reticent in interviews and barely posts on social media.
A yearlong burst of Carti imitators including, one could argue, Whole Lotta Red executive producer Kanye West, who dabbles in a Carti-like dark trap sound throughout his recently released Donda have made it clear that the album is being understood by creators as a hinge moment in American music. Carti made almost everyone else at the festival seem silly, like they belonged to another, much stupider era.
Until recently, the ideal American pop artist was Frank Ocean or maybe Lana Del Ray—introspective, abstract, revealing of their deepest and truest selves, and sonically lush, perhaps even florid.
At Rolling Loud, over the course of 39 mind-flattening minutes, it felt as if Carti had been sent from whatever realm he lives in to expose the mode of perception that lies behind the screen of memes. He appeared in flashes against an almost exploding white background, beneath rapid lightning from the stage rafters.
The color came from cones and forests of blue and red lasers; his voice broke through in bolts of howling nightmare reverb against what sounded like heavy backing tracks.
Only with odd minutes left did I notice the black-clad and fogged-out Carti had a guitar player with him onstage, laying live slabs of aural concrete between songs.
On his albums Carti seeks out some spare essence of sound, something clean and stripped down, but whose simplicity reveals harshness instead of beauty. Nothing is ever too much, went this bold new theory of existence. The crowd of youngsters agreed. Everyone lost it, jumping and dancing and body-checking each other in the rain. I was reminded of Kent, that long-shuttered little world on the Williamsburg waterfront, when half-forgotten chaos agents like Monotonix or Team Robespierre would play.
I experienced a kind of pure negation achieved in clashes of flesh and sound. What kind of era are we in, though? Carti raised the possibility that there is something deeper hiding just behind the simultaneous Zoomer embrace of everything and nothing—strip away the frivolity, abandon any hope of relief, plunge into the aural and aesthetic grime and the ambient vulgarity would suddenly fall away, replaced by a new world of freedom and feeling. Subscribe to our newsletter.
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