Playboi Carti accepts the Artist of The Year award from Billboard’s Deputy Editorial Director Damien Scott at Billboard’sR&B Hip-Hop Power Players 2024.
Damien Scott:
My name is Damien Scott. I am the Deputy Editorial Director at Billboard. I’ve been here for a year now. This is the first Power Players, Hip-Hop Power Players I’ve been involved with. And when we started to think about what exactly a Hip-Hop Power Player is, I think, to me, it was somebody who exhibits a special quality, right? Someone who is able to control the game, control the genre, someone who is in the embodiment of hip-hop, and hip-hop, to me, as it probably is to a lot of you, is young, brash, innovative and honest. And the person who is getting this award right now has blazed a trail that has influenced a number of younger artists. He’s released a number of amazing tracks this year, and on top of that, he knocked his first Billboard Hot 100 hit with “CARNIVAL” earlier this year, and put his name in the record books with Ye, Ty Dolla $ign, and Rich The Kid. He’s gone from one of the most promising and exciting rappers in the game to one of the most forward thinking CEOs and one of the of the most powerful, exciting labels that we have right now, in Opium. What’s even crazier is that he’s just getting started, and I’m a huge fan of his. I know he’s someone who makes people think about what rap is supposed to be, and to me, that’s exactly what a rapper is supposed to do. Make everybody think what the hell is going on right here? What am I listening to? Is this good? Is this bad? And the fact of the matter is that it’s great. And it’s my honor to introduce the 2024 R&B Hip Hop Power Player Artist of the Year to Mr. Playboi Carti.
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