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Whole Lotta Red is the sophomore studio album by Playboi Carti. The project aims to prove Carti’s skill in music: I’m ready. I’m more ready than y'all. I’m trying to prove to these folks that I can rap. I got bars. That’s what Whole Lotta Red is about. The album title was discovered on August 18, 2018, when a recording of Carti surfaced, in which he was conversing about the project. The title refers to Carti’s affiliation with the Bloods, as well as his affinity for Wockhardt’s red codeine-promethazine syrup, commonly known as lean. In a Spring 2019 GQ story