Playboi Carti performed at the Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash on June 15, 2024, at the SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview (Chicago), Illinois. During his performance, the singer made the live debut of ten new songs.
A mix of covers and original songs, the ten live debuted songs covered more than half of the singer's hour and nine-minute-long set. The debut of the songs was preceded by the singer's reply to questions posed by fellow rappers regarding his lack of music release on the Instagram account Opium_00pium. Later reposted on Carti's stories, the caption of the post read:
"TWIN SAID ITS TIME STREETS NEED 2 HEAR N SEE DIS SH*T DA RIGHT WAY"
Playboi Carti's live debut songs list from Summer Smash
The tracks live debuted by Playboi Carti the Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash on June 15, 2024, day 2 of the three-day festival, are listed below:
- H00DBYAIR
- 2024
- Ketamine
- Type Sh*t (cover live debut, original song by Metro Booming and Future)
- Backr00ms
- Fe!n (live cover debut, original song by Travis Scott)
- All Red
- Untitled Song
- Different Day
- Evilj0rdan
- Carnival (live cover debut, original song by Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign)
Type Shi*t was originally released by Metro Booming and Future as part of their album, We Don't Trust You. The single charted at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart after the album was released. The original was also a collaboration between Boomin, Future, Carti, and Travis Scott.
Fe!n was originally released by Travis Scott as part of his latest studio album, Utopia, on July 28, 2023, and later as a single on March 12, 2024. Carti and Scott collaborated on the original as well.
Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign released Carnival originally as part of the album Vultures 1 on February 10, 2024, and subsequently as a single on February 15, 2024.
H00DBYAIR is a song that first debuted live at a listening party for Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign's Vultures 1 album on February 9, 2024, at the UBS Arena in New York.
2024 and Ketamine are both non-album tracks that did not have their live debut until the singer's performance at the festival. Neither track's chart figures are available currently.
In addition to these covers and non-album tracks, the singer debuted two completely fresh tracks, All Red and the untitled track, the latter being produced by producer F1lthy.
Playboi Carti last released a solo album back in 2020
Playboi Carti's last studio album was four years ago back in 2020. The singer released his third studio album, Whole Lotta Red, on December 25, 2020, via AWGE and Interscope Records.
The album was a chart-topper on the Billboard 200 album chart. Alongside that success, the album also charted at number 2 on the Canadian album chart and number 7 on the Dutch album chart as well as at number 15 on the Australian album chart.
Critics consider the gold-certified album to be a direct follow-up to the Playboi Carti's first album, Die Lit, released in 2018. Whole Lotta Red was produced by Ken Carson and Maaly Raw, among others, and featured collaborations with artists Kid Cudi, Future, and Kanye West