Playboi Carti‘s next album still doesn’t have a street date, but it does have one surprising person pushing for its release — daytime TV legend Maury Povich.
The now-retired host of the long-running Maury show threw up Carti’s Young Vamp Life sign on Instagram, captioning his post “drop the album @playboicarti#YVL.” He added a vampire emoji at the end for good measure.
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Carti’s last album Whole Lotta Red came out in late 2020.
Check out the strange-but-true post below.
While Carti may not have dropped the album yet, new music from him has surfaced recently: a verse on Tyler, The Creator‘s new album Chromakopia.
Chromakopia arrived on streaming services late last month, with most fans unaware that the vinyl version of the album contains a bonus song and a guest feature from Carti.
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The Atlanta rapper lends a guest verse to the ScHoolboy Q-assisted “Thought I Was Dead,” adopting a deeper voice that he’s used in other recent songs over the jittery production and tribal drums.
A recording of the track has since been leaked online.
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The vinyl also includes a bonus song called “Mother,” which finds Tyler reflecting on being raised by a single mom.
The Tyler collab came hot on the heels of Carti’s song “Timeless” with The Weeknd.
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At the track’s release in early October, itarrived at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, while also being the most-streamed song. It was the highest first-week chart position in Abel’s years-long career, and also his 19th top 10 single —and Carti’s fifth.
An all-star collaboration between the pair and producers Pharrell and Mike Dean, “Timeless” is considerably moodier than “Dancing in the Flames,” the lead single from the Toronto native’s upcoming album Hurry Up Tomorrow.
The Weeknd premiered the track with help from Carti during a show in Brazil in early September, then released it to streaming services on September 27 – where it racked up over 10 million streams in just its first day.
In the song’s music video, the pair don all black in various outfit changes on a dimly-lit set, occasionally being joined by a few dancing women with far less clothing on.
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Hurry Up Tomorrow will serve as the third and final installment in a trilogy that includes The Weeknd’s previous albums, 2020’s After Hours and 2022’s Dawn FM.
