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.”
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.
