Allegations of violence surrounding high-profile artists — a 2022 domestic-abuse charge levied against Lil Uzi Vert met with a plea of no contest, and a 2023 felony-aggravated-assault charge against Carti was later reported as dismissed — imply that abrasive views on these records come from somewhere real and worrying.

Playboi Carti’s heavily anticipated I AM MUSIC is already off to a massive start. On Monday (March 18), Hits Double Daily reported that the Atlanta rapper’s third studio album is currently pacing toward the biggest U.