As music and style have turn out to be extra intently entwined than ever in recent times, rappers have begun receiving invitations into rooms beforehand unimagined. As an illustration, ultimately night time’s Met Gala, the visitor record ran the gamut from vital darlings like André 3000 to fan favorites like Future and Megan Thee Stallion, together with Met fixture ASAP Rocky.
One rapper who didn’t make it in — and appeared fairly upset about it — was Playboi Carti, who as an alternative posted photographs of his outfit on his secondary Instagram page, writing within the caption: “MET GALA BANNED ME FELT LIKE WE GOT KICKED OUT OF PROM BUT WE GOOD.” He additionally acknowledged his date for the night time, self-declared blogger and mannequin Giovanna Ramos, writing, “@ft.gioo WITH ME IM A HAPPY MAN F*CK EM”
Their ensembles had been allegedly put collectively by the model Chrome Hearts, in keeping with Carti’s tags, and whereas they stretched the Met’s proposed theme of Black Dandyism, it’s not like all that lots of the accepted company had been on-theme both (and even knew what it was).
Nonetheless, some followers on-line are fairly skeptical of his declaration, brazenly questioning whether or not Carti was even invited (Chrome Hearts actually isn’t one of many legacy design homes that usually warrants an invitation to the style occasion of the 12 months). Possibly subsequent 12 months, Carti.