Playboi Carti is having himself a busy week. Not solely is the eccentric Atlanta rapper anticipated to lastly drop his third album this week, he additionally interviewed FKA Twigs for i-D’s newest cowl story and revealed that the unlikely pair go method again.
Apparently, Carti and the British singer first met round 2014 when 18 years previous Playboi was launched to Twigs by none apart from A$AP Rocky. He opened the interview by mentioning that he just lately hung with Ojivolta, the manufacturing duo who labored on her most up-to-date album Eusexua. “They love you,” Carti mentioned. “I used to be like, ‘I used to be freestyling with Twigs again within the day with Rocky in New York after I was 18.’ I used to be telling him like, ‘[Twigs] all the time supported me since day one.’ Folks don’t even know that.”
When she replied that they “all the time had a very good vibe,” he added that Rocky was adamant about introducing them. “After I was developing with Rocky, he all the time used to inform me, ‘Yo, Twigs is the one. I received to introduce you to Twigs,’” he continued. “And after I met you, every little thing he mentioned about you was true. Shorty from the opposite aspect of the world. She received me off the bat.”
Twigs then revealed that she used share an condo in L.A. with Rocky and the late A$AP Yams, and used to throw down within the kitchen for them. “ Rocky and I used to dwell collectively,” she mentioned. “I feel it was 2012 or 2013. I used to dwell with A$AP Yams and Rocky in L.A., and we had an condo collectively. I’d all the time cook dinner for them as a result of they’d by no means eat.”
Elsewhere within the interview, they speak about how FKA was found on a practice platform by photographer Matthew Stone, her album and European rave tradition, amongst different issues.
Carti’s I Am Music is set to reach at midnight on Friday, March 14.
