He broke into the limelight through his affiliations with Awful Records and began to generate some steam with his 2016 hit ‘Broke Boi’. It wasn’t until his debut self-titled mixtape last year that the mainstream caught wind of his talents, with songs like ‘Magnolia’ and collaborations with ASAP Mob seeing his notoriety rise. Playboi Carti’s style has always been somewhat different from his contemporaries, with his ad-lib heavy style and off-kilter flow contrasting the auto-tuned singing trend that dominated the charts. These stylings that once made him the odd one out, have provided him with the ‘it’ factor that is saving trap music from extinction.