Playboi Carti continues his recent run of new material with "H00DBYAIR." It follows "2024," last week's Kanye West-produced single released just in time to make Complex's Best Songs of 2023 ranking.
While "2024" arrived via YouTube, the latest drop—which fans have also referred to as "Tundra"—is here in video form courtesy of the Instagram account of Carti's label, Opium. Watch it up top, and keep an eye out for Destroy Lonely, Ken Carson, and Homixide Gang.
The track was once again teased on IG by a screaming British gentleman just hours before it hit.
Produced by Ojivolta, Earl on the Beat, and Kanye (who cameos in the visual), "2024" has racked up 11.3 million views in five days. For our Best Songs rundown, Eric Skelton wrote, “Playboi Carti just hit a buzzer-beater, dropping ‘2024’ right before we published this list. It’s so good, we had to make room for it, though.”
The release coincided with an announcement that Carti has rescheduled dates for his Antagonist Tour in order to finish the follow-up to his 2020 LP Whole Lotta Red. “New album coming soon,” a November statement read, adding that Carti is “gearing up for his new album and the Antagonist Tour will follow once there is new music to share with fans.”
Carti revealed to Numéro Berlin’s Damien Cummings in November that he'd spent three months cooking up "in a cave."
“I’ve been recording in Paris, I love Paris," he shared. "Amazing. I was recording, in a cave, for like three months, and all the music that came out of that is just chaotic and crazy. Then, I’m in a glass house, somewhere in the hills, and the music there is just very good to the ears. And then, I’m in Atlanta and the tensions are just high and the music is biting.”
The title Music has been rumored, a notion that's supported by the caption on "H00DBYAIR" reading "#IAMMUSIC."
