WHOLE LOTTA RED: A REVIEW

After two damn years of waiting [definitely not me], Carti finally drops the album! I wasn't going to make a review BUT when I heard Carti, in Punk Monk, say "... I don't rap, I write poems..." I was like:

Whole Lotta Red is Playboi Carti's second studio album and as I've earlier stated, a highly anticipated project. And Carti takes a weird, twisted and unsurprisingly dark route with this album. I mean did you see the merch?

Anyways, the WLR comprises of 24 songs. Yes. I know. That's a lot. But Carti feels it's fine. You get more songs for the wait? 🤔

Man really brought hieroglyphics to his track naming 😭. I kinda respect Carti for embodying many trolls. What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger yeah?

Before I review the songs, we have to talk about the album art. C'mon Carti. Why this? Sigh.

Weak ass album art. This just screams low effort.

The album has three categories according to my ears: absolute trash, confessions and pretty okay.

Let's start with the absolute trash.

Skipping the intro, I expected something good from Go2DaMoon but it easily has one of the worst Kanye verses I've ever had to read and hear. Beno!, JumpOutTheHouse, M3tamorphosis, New Tank, Teen X, Meh, Vamp Anthem, Control, On That Time, King Vamp, and Place are all face palms. 

Some songs have meaning though: the confessions.

Although corny and unpleasant, Control is a love song. If someone made me a song like that, I'd stone the person cold fufu. He was singing off beat ffs. 

Punk Monk, Slay3r, Stop Breathing and On That Time talk about experiences - the pleasant and unpleasant.

Carti also made his sexuality clear in New Tank. It's safe to say that Carti is not gay. Sorry LGBTQIA+. 

Now, No Sl33p creeps me a lil bit. Could it be Carti trying to converse that he's disturbed even in his sleep (as he dreams of murder) or is the devil stroking his weiner? In one of the tracks, he swore on his son [Onyx] that he would bury an opp in cement. Bro 💀😟. Okayyyyy 💀

Now, the pretty okay! New N3on got me nodding for a little bit and I see that as a huge win. If not for that, this album would've gotten a 1/10 from me. 1 for Effort. Now I think a 2.5/10 would do just fine. Sampling Bon Iver for the outdo song is a level of brilliance that I'm impressed with. It doesn't mean the song was good lmao.

For whomever that's made it this far, this album is trash 🚮. I'm kind of glad that Pi'erre didn't get signed to Carti. 

Whole Lotta Red is a mash of unpleasant adlibs, repetitions, women objectification, pointless lyrics, spitting vocals and whack beats. Enjoy tho.

NB: this is my opinion.