Playboi Carti finally announced the release date for his new album I Am Music following years of anticipation and delays.
The Atlanta rapper made the announcement on social media on Wednesday (March 12), simply writing on X (formerly Twitter): “Friday,” meaning the project will be released tomorrow (March 14).
Carti’s Instagram page featured a slightly more unique announcement as he posted a video of a bald British man shouting: “New Carti album this Friday!”
Further details, including a tracklist and cover art, have yet to be confirmed, but according to Akademiks, the album features appearances from Future, Travis Scott, Young Thug, Lil Uzi Vert and The Weeknd, among others.
The media personality also called it an instant “classic” and claimed that it is “all hits no misses.”
FRIDAY
— . (@playboicarti) March 13, 2025
The release date means that Playboi Carti will be sticking to his original March 2025 deadline (albeit two days late) after announcing via his website last year that I Am Music would arrive “no later than six months from September 12, 2024.”
Though he first unveiled the album title back in 2023, King Vamp ramped up the rollout earlier this month by teasing its imminent release.
Through his record label Opium’s Instagram page, Carti tagged Spotify and wrote to the streaming platform: “WHAT WE DOIN
LETS GONE CLEAR DESE HO AHH NIG OUT.”
After the company replied with several hourglass emojis, he wrote back on his Instagram Stories: “YAL BOYS PUSH UP MY N-GHA.”
The enigmatic rap star further fueled excitement by claiming that his long-anticipated third LP will be worth the wait.
“N THE REPLAY [VALUE] ON 10,” he declared in a separate Instagram Story.
I Am Music was previously rumored to arrive before the end of 2024, especially after Playboi Carti premiered a slew of new songs during his headline set at Rolling Loud Miami in December.
In an interview with Billboard earlier that year, Grammy-winning producer Cardo shed light on the album and suggested that it will pioneer a whole new subgenre of rap.
“Carti’s style is in constant evolution, and he and Cardo already have a name for the sound they’ve been workshopping for the project: ‘burnt music,’” the article read.
“We’ll be in the studio, like, ‘This music is burnt,’” explained Cardo, who produced several of Carti’s warm-up tracks including “H00DBYAIR,” “EVILJ0RDAN” and the Travis Scott-assisted “BACKR00MS.”
The Minnesota-bred beatmaker also cited Three 6 Mafia’s DJ Paul and Juicy J, DJ Toomp, The Legendary Traxster and even John Carpenter — the director and composer behind classic horror movies like Halloween, The Thing and Escape From New York — as influences for I Am Music.
This is that one album. That album I can’t wait to NOT listen to.
Go back to listening to old white boomer and vulture drake and kendrick
Drake’s trash but I’d rather listen to him than this f@gotry
Id rather listen to Drake too and Drake sucks.
Kendrick’s on the album
That “bald british man” is Black Haine
Tomorrow we’ll see finally? Support this over Drake and Kendrick. Carti should work with August Alsina. Yung Miles might be on this too hopefully it sounds good and Ye for sure!
Forget Kendrick and Drake. Carti is back with Ye producing!
And the album will still suck balls. Listen to better music, not shit 12 year olds white kids consider hood.
Carti doesn’t claim to be hood also your boy Kendrick is on the album
How is this guy so popular? His beats sound like super Mario music and he can’t form a sentence? ZOOMERS KILLED HIPHOP!
Shut up! Millennials ruined hip hop and old boomers running their mouths now.
Millennials had decent hip hop. Drake, Soulja boy and Gen Z ruined the rest.
Confirmed features Kendrick, Travis, Future, Uzi, Weeknd, XXX, and potentially Ye and Wayne. At most a sample of Wayne.
And none of getting paid cuz the album goin triple dried marker
Joe Budden and his idiot cronnies proven wrong again they said he’d never release another album also they don’t know anything he’s signed to Interscope they said he was signed to Atlantic. Whatever credibility they have or vultures give them needs to stop.
YoungBoy, Thug, Future, Wayne, Ye, X, Sosa and Kendrick on this