Whole Lotta Red

Whole Lotta Red
Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 25, 2020
Recorded2018 – November 2020
Studio
  • Carter's home studio
  • Means Street (Atlanta)
Genre
Length62:12
Label
Producer
Playboi Carti chronology
Die Lit
(2018)
Whole Lotta Red
(2020)
TBA
(2024)

Whole Lotta Red is the second studio album by American rapper Playboi Carti. It was released through AWGE and Interscope Records on December 25, 2020. The album consists of 24 tracks and features guest appearances from American rappers Kanye West, Kid Cudi and Future. Production was executively handled by West, who appears on the song "Go2DaMoon" and was primarily handled by F1lthy and Art Dealer alongside several other record producers, including Pi'erre Bourne, Maaly Raw, Lil 88, Ojivolta and Wheezy. Work on the album commenced in late 2018 and concluded in November 2020. The album serves as a follow-up to his debut studio album, Die Lit (2018).

Upon the album's release, Whole Lotta Red received generally positive reviews from music critics, and became Playboi Carti's first US number-one album, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200 with 100,000 album-equivalent units earned in its first week. Whole Lotta Red ended up on several publications' lists of the best albums of 2021, with Rolling Stone ranking it on their list of the "200 Greatest Hip-Hop Albums of All Time". The album has since been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

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