Playboi Carti: Exclusive Access Backstage at Summer Smash 2024 | Billboard Cover

Billboard cover star Playboi Carti gives us exclusive access into his backstage prep ahead of his performance at Summer Smash 2024. We get to see how the star and his team get ready for his sets, what they each have to say about Playboi Carti and more!

Playboi Carti:

You know, we finna rock Chicago real quick. I ain’t been here in a minute, it’s a blessing you know what I’m saying. It feels good to be back outside if you know what I’m saying. Back on stage. It’s most definitely going to be a movie tonight. 

Team Member:

You want to go up the stairs and stuff?

Playboi Carti:

Should I start on the stairs?

Team Member:

Yeah.

Playboi Carti:

And the gang will be there? 

Team Member:

Yes. 

Playboi Carti:

All good. 

Team Member:

Alright. Can I start? 

Playboi Carti:

Hey guys come on! 

Team Member 2:

You’ve been taking creatine huh? 

Team Member 3:

Yes sir.

Team Member 2:

Love that creatine, great protein. 

Playboi Carti:

No carbs.It’s a lifestyle. I can’t really like say the description of like, you know what I’m saying. It’s understood, ain’t gotta be said. You see it. 

Destroy Lonely:

Before I met him, he was one of my favorite rappers. I studied him just like I studied anything else. So it’s like, I got, I got a lot of sh*t from what I just know myself and what I was into, and then everything goes. Like, he put me down on or we really share a lot of like, like, I done taught him a lot of things too. So it’s just like, when you want to work like this e this, and that’s what you love, and you do, you just kind of bounce off each other.

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Katie Cao

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