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But thatвЂ™s the most pedestrian kind of punk move - a retreat to the comfort of familiarity.

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Machine Gun Kelly just made a full album of mid-вЂ™00s Warped Tour pop-punk, with Travis Barker producing. Playboi Carti isnвЂ™t the only rapper currently fashioning himself as a punk rocker. HeвЂ™s identified a wildness, an abandon, and heвЂ™s come up with his own version of it. ItвЂ™s more that Carti has absorbed that aesthetic, catching shards of it through streetwear culture and Jackass. Whole Lotta Red has nothing like вЂњ Stop FuckinвЂ™ Wit Me,вЂќ the 2004 track that was just Lil Jon screaming over Slayer riffs for six minutes. I donвЂ™t think Playboi Carti is sitting around and listening to Black Flag or Bad Religion or the Damned. The Whole Lotta Red cover art, designed by the producer Art Dealer, is a riff on the image of the DamnedвЂ™s Dave Vanian from the cover of the first issue of Slash, the late-вЂ™70s LA punk fanzine. The cover art from Die Lit, CartiвЂ™s last album, is a high-contrast photo of a flipping stage-dive that would work just fine as a backpatch. HeвЂ™s got a Bad Religion tattoo - the crossed-out cross and the band logo, both taking up significant torso real estate. Carti might have whole new ideas about what kinds of things might be hits in 2021, and he might be right.Д¬artiвЂ™s immersed himself in punk aesthetics for a long time. вЂњSlaењ“rвЂќ doesnвЂ™t sound like a hit, but it might be one anyway. On вЂњSlaењ“r,вЂќ Carti shrieks and yammers and giggles, swallowing his own words and slip-sliding all over the hiccuping, echoing beat. After a week, the track thatвЂ™s racked up the most streams is вЂњSlaењ“r,вЂќ a jagged and off-balance track that sounds like Atlanta trap gone hyperpop. Whole Lotta Red is not an album full of potential hits. Whole Lotta Red channels that feeling - the sense of being constantly wrongfooted, of feeling forces pushing you around. CartiвЂ™s fans have built entire albums out of the discards that they werenвЂ™t supposed to hear. Whole Lotta Red comes after years of work, after dozens of random tracks and song-snippets that leaked on the internet. Carti songs are more ad-libs than raps, and he makes that work for him. Instead, heвЂ™s a freewheeling presence, an ambient chaotic energy. Carti isnвЂ™t a traditional rapper or, for that matter, a traditional pop star. But Carti has built the feeling of disorientation into his style and his persona.

In virtually any other circumstance, вЂњM3tamorphosisвЂќ would be a bafflingly strange choice for the lead single from a major rap album. Seen in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve, just as Whole Lotta Red, was finally arriving in the world, the вЂњM3tamorphosisвЂќ video felt like a transmission from another planet. I got my whole gang on some other shit.вЂќ вЂњI feel like God.вЂќ ThatвЂ™s poetry. IвЂ™m talking hieroglyphics.вЂќ вЂњI feel like Morpheus. There is poetry in chanting the word вЂњmetamorphosisвЂќ seven times mid-verse. Elsewhere on Whole Lotta Red, Carti attempts to pin down his own constantly-changing style: вЂњI donвЂ™t rap, I write poems.вЂќ HeвЂ™s not wrong.

The song hypnotizes.Д¬arti doesnвЂ™t really rap on вЂњM3tamorphosis,вЂќ which is not a surprise. Cudi and Carti both sound completely out of their faces on вЂњM3tamorphosis,вЂќ and the effect works for them. Kid Cudi drops in with a slightly awkward mid-song verse, but his real contribution is his hum - a deep and satisfying echoing rumble that pairs beautifully with CartiвЂ™s frantic, high-pitched yip. ItвЂ™s one of the albumвЂ™s only songs that feels like a complete thought, and itвЂ™s also one of the only tracks that features a guest-rapper. вЂњM3tamorphosisвЂќ is the lead single from Whole Lotta Red, CartiвЂ™s long-awaited new album.

ItвЂ™s an instinctive blurt, an improvised stylistic tic. I think he just did what felt right in the moment. I donвЂ™t think he planned to shout the name of Franz KafkaвЂ™s most famous short story a bunch of times.

I donвЂ™t think Carti wrote those lyrics down. Carti just keeps chanting the word, turning it into a mantra, riding it into meaninglessness. The song is called вЂњM3tamorphosis,вЂќ but that moment isnвЂ™t the chorus. Then, as if to prove his point, he yelps the word вЂњMetamorphosisвЂќ seven times. вЂњI done changed my swag,вЂќ Playboi Carti howls.

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