Playboi Carti‘s attempt to celebrate his birthday with a pop-up show in Brooklyn didn’t go as planned, as the concert was shut down before Carti could perform.
The show, which took place on Saturday (September 14), was announced the day prior, on the rapper’s actual birthday.
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The concert was ticketed, and the venue (Brooklyn Warehouse) has a capacity of 3,000. However, many more people than that showed up — over 10,000, according to one account.
This led to clashes between the police and the crowd outside the venue — you can see video here — and ultimately to the show being shut down entirely.
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Carti addressed the situation via an Instagram post on Sunday (September 15).
“NYPD shut me down,” he wrote. “I tried sooo hard to celebrate with you tonight. The music was about to be insane. I was outside the whole time. They told me they would lock me up if I got out the car. It’s my fuckin biryhday [sic] wtf.”
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He captioned the post: “TBH YALL DID YALL THANG 10,000 PEOPLE OUTSIDE VENUE ONLY FIT 3K. PD FOLKS TRYING LOCK ME UNFORTUNATELY. THANK U NEW YORK.”
Check it out below.
The almost-birthday-show happened just days after The Weeknd recruited Carti to help debut a new single just hours after the Torontonian unveiled the cover art for his new album.
The singer born Abel Tesfaye performed an epic concert at MorumBIS Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Saturday (September 7).
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The show, which was also livestreamed on YouTube, featured a brand new stage design, plus a number of new songs from The Weeknd’s forthcoming album, Hurry Up Tomorrow.
For one of those new joints, he brought Playboi Carti, with whom he has previously collaborated on last year’s “Popular.” Carti also performed his Travis Scott collab “FE!N.”
While it’s unclear if the new collab will wind up on Hurry Up Tomorrow or Carti’s highly anticipated forthcoming album, rap fans from all walks of life are practically begging the “New Tank” rapper to drop his new project.
The rapper can’t even use a Finsta account without getting reminded that he hasn’t released an album in four years, as the NBA’s Orlando Magic demonstrated.
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Earlier this month, Carti posted to his opium_00pium IG a number of photos of him wearing a Penny Hardaway jersey from his days on the Magic.
That same day, the Magic’s official X account reposted one of the photos, captioning it: “drop the album @playboicarti.”
