The “King Vamp”: Vampiric Aesthetics of Playboi Carti’s ‘Whole Lotta Red’
*This post is a “blog essay” for ENGL 859 “Victorian Vampires” at Queen’s University. Introduction When Playboi Carti‘s album Whole Lotta Red was released on Christmas day in 2020, people mostly hated it. I remember the regularity of phrases like…