Playboi Carti’s new album Baby Boi is “done,” Swamp Izzo claims

Last month, Playboi Carti released his long-awaited new album Music, just over four years after his 2020 album Whole Lotta Red. In that time, the Atlanta rapper either promised or heavily implied the existence lots of material that never materialized, including a Whole Lotta Red deluxe and an album called Narcissist. Now that MUSIC is out, the cycle may be finally starting again: in a new interview with Complex, Carti collaborator Swamp Izzo says that Carti’s Music follow-up, titled Baby Boi, is completed.

When asked about Baby Boi, Izzo replied with: “Ready. Done.” Pushed further, he shared more details: Carti has recorded between 50 and 60 brand new songs for the project. “Completed to his liking? I couldn’t say,” Izzo continued. “But they’re done. If I was still in that mixtape era, we’d have Baby Boi one through nine.”

Izzo also shared some fascinating (if not totally unsurprising) details on the recording of Music, which lasted right up until the project appeared on DSPs at 7am on March 14. “The album was done, supposed to drop at midnight. [Carti’s] like, ‘Nah, Swamp, just go in the other room and give me some more energy.’ I’m like, ‘For real? It’s done. We ready. We locked.’ And he’s like, ‘We’re going to drop at 3 AM.’ So if you listen to ‘Pop Out’ you’ll hear ‘I’m in here with Swamp right now…on my mama.

‘We just trying to make the album more and more exciting. So we just cramming. We recorded all the way up to the album actually came out. So when they dropped at 7am, we were still in the studio, on everything I love.”