Mario Judah issued an ultimatium to Playboi Carti over the release of Carti’s Whole Lotta Red album and when the “Magnolia” rapper failed to deliver, Judah decided to release his own Whole Lotta Red.
Led by the viral star’s new single “Bih Yah,” the four-track “tribute” to Carti features Judah songs such as “Luv My Slatts,” “Bean & Lean” and “Figi Freestyle.” The entire project finds Judah doing his best Carti impersonation after pleading like many diehard fans for the release of the Georgia rapper’s long-awaited third album Whole Lotta Red. Listen to Judah’s version of WLR below.
“Before I blew up, I was one of the fans in his comments section,” Judah told Complex about his connection to Carti. “I was like, “Bro, drop Whole Lotta Red! Drop Whole Lotta Red!” And I used to always think, “What could possibly be done to get this man to drop his album?”
He added, “Everything I’m doing now is just trying to get this man to drop this album. I honestly don’t know what people might think about what I’m doing. But everybody has been glad that I’ve been doing it, because we’re starting to see results.”
On Thursday (December 10), Carti himself took to Instagram to give fans news on the follow up to 2018’s Die Lit after initially revealing the album was turned in to his label in November.
“i kAnT bELieVE mY ALBUm iS AbOUT 2 dRoP,” he wrote. “wTF ps . i goT A tANK @ THe cAsTLE n0w thx. YE.”
Akademiks Says Playboi Carti's Album Is Dropping On Christmas Day & Executive Produced By Kanye West
The oft-delayed Whole Lotta Red has seen plenty of names chime in to give updates in regards to its eventual release date. On Thursday (December 10), media personality Akademiks announced Carti’s project would arrive on Christmas Day after proclaiming he had to “sell his soul” in order to nab the exclusive information. On top of the WLR release date news, Akademiks revealed Kanye West would serve as executive producer.
Carti fans have taken to Twitter all week to detail how Judah was promoting Whole Lotta Red better than Carti was and snarkily responding to Judah’s antics. Once Judah’s “Bih Yah” dropped, the single quickly amassed views on Twitter before being taken down from YouTube due to a copyright claim.
“The fact Mario Judah just straight jacked Carti’s flow and stole his rollout is SENDING ME,” one user wrote on December 6.
See more reactions to Judah’s WLR antics below.
This new “hip hop” is weird asf
Garbage trying to ruin hip hop
Calm down
u dumb
There’re almost no new rappers I can care about. The music just isn’t the same. I browse this site every day and just read names and don’t care enough to go past the headlines. I even try to let Spotify push news music to me and it’s all underwhelming. I dunno…
I’m the exact same, I come here everyday and see these bozos. I’m 29 and I just find it sad that this trash is the level of music that gets some people excited.
“Going nuts”……why? This weird bs is straight doo doo
Why do this site love to show us twitter reactions from these “John Smith” nobody’s? Who the fuck are these weirdos lol
Go click on there twitter pages most of them have less then 1000 followers. One guy only has like 15 followers its probably just the people this goofy azz rapper guy paid 5 bucks on 5iver to promote his garbage album
Is this the sht kids be listening to these days? My god this is terrible.
I thought this was some fat dyke at first smfh
If your seriously waiting for a Playgirl album. Your a weirdo.
See this fat fuck
You dumb ash
Who is feeding this troll?
“Blah blah blah” one user wrote on December 6. Great journalism. Keep up the good work! And also we’re all loving these hashtags your putting in the headlines. Keep them coming. #YIKES #LIT
These 2 are both horrible.
You dumb ash if you actually think that lmaoo. goofy .