Olivier Lafontant
Freelance Writer at Miami New Times
Writer at South Florida Media Network
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1 week ago |
pitchfork.com | Olivier Lafontant
There’s no collective in America commanding the youth like Opium is right now. Somewhere between cold nonchalance and masochistic vitriol lies the Atlanta-based neo-punk brigade, a coven of rappers and producers who mold piercing distortion into organized bedlam. When Playboi Carti launched the label with the release of 2020’s Whole Lotta Red, he was already readying his first protégé.
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1 week ago |
pitchfork.com | Olivier Lafontant
A lot of your favorite rappers have catchphrases. People tend to call them “ad-libs,” which sounds cooler, but they’re really just catchphrases—even if they aren’t words at all. There was a time when all it took was a grunt from Rick Ross to let you know a track was getting shut down. From Boldy James’ “Where we at wit’ it?” to Myaap’s “On my daddyyy,” announcing your presence is a requisite in every corner of hip-hop.
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3 weeks ago |
pitchfork.com | Olivier Lafontant
Some music isn’t meant to be heard with anyone else. You don’t listen to Aethiopes or Turn on the Bright Lights and think, “Damn, maybe I should play this the next time I have friends over.” These are records you wallow in alone. In 2023, one of my most played songs of the year was Xang’s “for me,” a spacy, desolate track that wrapped itself around me on streetlit walks home.
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1 month ago |
pitchfork.com | Olivier Lafontant
No more waiting. No more refreshing Spotify. You’re not dreaming. Music is finally here. Music took about four and a half years to materialize, and Playboi Carti matches the long wait with his longest, most wide-ranging album—a nearly 77-minute record that boasts blockbuster features and makes official several fan-favorite snippets. Where Whole Lotta Red felt focused in its brazen, punk-imbued approach, Music sprawls with classic Atlanta rap, industrial synths, and electropop.
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Olivier Lafontant
Image by Chris Panicker. Photo by Wagner Meier/Getty Images for Live Nation. No more waiting. No more refreshing Spotify. You’re not dreaming. Music is finally here. Music took about four and a half years to materialize, and Playboi Carti matches the long wait with his longest, most wide-ranging album—a nearly 77-minute record that boasts blockbuster features and makes official several fan-favorite snippets.
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