Atlanta rapper Playboi Carti returna with his highly-anticipated album “Music,” which features special guests including Travis Scott and Kendrick Lamar.

Allegations of violence surrounding high-profile artists — a 2022 domestic-abuse charge levied against Lil Uzi Vert met with a plea of no contest, and a 2023 felony aggravated assault charge against Carti was later reported as dismissed — imply that abrasive views on these records come from somewhere real and worrying.