Pitchfork’s weekly rap column covers songs, mixtapes, albums, Instagram freestyles, memes, dances, weird tweets, fashion trends—and anything else that catches our attention in the world of hip-hop.
The curious case of Playboi Carti’s rampant TikTok leaks Lately, after a couple of minutes of scrolling through TikTok, I’ll run into a video that features a leaked Playboi Carti song.
Soon enough, I’ll come across another video with a Carti leak, and surely another after that—a different song every time. Some artists have intentionally leaked their songs onto the platform with the hope that they catch on, but Carti’s issue is one of a kind: He has an entire project worth of material floating around, and there’s little TikTok appears to be doing
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