Leave it to Playboi Carti to show up to Christmas with the most divisive album of 2020. In the time since 2018’s Die Lit, the rapper’s latest project Whole Lotta Red has been highly anticipated, to say the least. Expecting Carti to drop on time became a meme on Twitter; some fans grew so restless over its delayed release that they even threatened to release the album forhim. In terms of hype, it’s safe to say that the album is this year’s Astroworld. Hip-hop releases of this magnitude are always met with a mountain of impossibly high expectations, often crumbling under the pressure to become the hottest album of the year. And similarly to Travis Scott just two years ago, Carti faces a myriad of fans expecting him to deliver the next bold iteration of his signature eccentric, idiosyncratic sound. With