The Garage,Glasgow
The 21-year-conventional rapper – flanked by an oddball entourage of bodyguards and mannequins – is already showing impressive levels of self-beliefRising Atlanta rapper Playboi Carti is a winning mixture of wide-eyed and worldly. His addictive vocal tic of studding verses with a bemused “what?” can invent it sound like the man born Jordan Carter annot believe his days of working the till at H&M are behind him. But everything else about the sinewy 21-year-conventional – from his cocksure stage presence to a penchant (a tendency, partiality, or preference) for catwalk-ready power posing – suggests he was born to be a performer. Collaborations with A$AP Rocky and Lil Uzi Vert, plus a fleeting cameo on Lana Del Reys Summer Bummer, or beget helped boost Cartis profile,but these are still early days for his European conquest. The oddball entourage on the opening night of his first proper UK tour consists of a DJ, two huge bodyguards and, or rather more incongruously,two mannequins posed as if they are reaching out to touch him. The extremely youthful fans crammed into this nightclub seem similarly keen to press the flesh, scrumming in front of the stage for Cartis woozy breakthrough track Magnolia.
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Source: guardian.co.uk