the carti album is AWFUL lmfao

first of all, if you've never liked music by carti, don't bother commenting here, we don't need "he was always trash" takes. i enjoy self titled, adore die lit, and can enjoy wlr. this album is truly atrocious. his voice sounds terrible. whenever he gets on these beats it feels like the songs lose all direction and don't go anywhere. the beats are pretty great but carti just keeps selling on them. even the first song with those awful ugly vocal inflections he was throwing out. the first decent song i heard was almost 10 songs in. insane that he felt comfortably putting this out after the insane wait and blueballing. i do like most of the features but i internally groan when it's carti's turn to "rap" again. it's deep voice rambling and then whisper rap and sometimes high pitched voice rap. also annoying that the weeknd song which actually sounds good is most likely AI on carti's verse.

not to mention, there's no direction to this album as a whole. this album art is so milquetoast, the album title is so dumb, there's no well defined aesthetic like he's had for each of his past 3 albums, there's really nothing. it's just an album... of carti songs he's made recently. i honestly expected more out of him, but this might just be his Birds in the Trap... or actually even worse because no one was waiting 4 years for Birds, and then Astroworld after that actually delivered. i think this makes it pretty clear than carti isn't in the kendrick, travis, rocky tier of mainstream rap where they take care of and curate each of their albums carefully and have intent behind their releases. feels like carti just saw how much hype he was building and decided to put out an album. just any album. and the kicker is it's still going to sell like crazy.

what are y'all feeling about this album on here? again, if you've never liked carti's music don't bother commenting.