MUSIC is the third studio album from Playboi Carti, the nearly 5 year follow up to his last album Whole Lotta Red, which released on December 25th, 2020. It released March 14th, 2025. The album's title was first teased in an April 2022 XXL interview, stating he would simply call his album MUSIC for the moment, though this title would continue to be used. In more recent material the name "I AM MUSIC" would be adopted, which would later be confirmed to be the official title of the album according to a Billboard interview that took place in June of 2024. Carti also stated in this interview that the album will be released by the end of the year, which did not end up happening. On Friday, November 3rd, 2023, German arts and culture magazine Numéro Berlin published a new interview with Playboi Carti to give his fans a little insight into the creative process behind the album he was working on. He describes how 3 months were spent recording MUSIC in a cave and what specific sounds came out of those sessions. "I really try to stay out my head, I try to stay out my phone and I just try to lock in," Playboi Carti tells Numéro Berlin regarding his current musical mind state. "I'm in my surroundings. I've been recording in Paris. I love Paris. I was recording in a cave for like three months and all the music that came out of that is just chaotic and crazy." MUSIC was originally supported by 6 singles, those being "DIFFERENT DAY”, "2024”, "H00DBYAIR”, "BACKR00MS (feat. Travis Scott)”,