Sunday night at Rolling Loud at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood looked like the biggest night of Playboi Carti’s life. But for about 15 minutes in the middle of the set, his show nearly boiled over. On Friday,

The Atlanta rapper delivers a lot of music on his third album, with Travis Scott, Skepta, Kendrick Lamar and The Weeknd along for the ride Suspicion, resentment, flickers of hope, waves of disappointment: life for Playboi Carti fans has been tough since Whole Lotta Red propelled the Atlanta rapper to a kind of superstardom some four years ago.

Playboi Carti came to play with his new album Music. On Friday, the same day the rapper dropped his long-awaited third studio album, he also broke a Spotify record. The audio streaming giant shared on Saturday that Music became Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single day in 2025 so far.