Whole Lotta Red

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The album consists of 24 tracks and features guest appearances from Kid Cudi, Future and Kanye West. In January 2022, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album features production by Pi'erre Bourne, Art Dealer, Outtatown, Star Boy, F1lthy, Juberlee, Richie Souf, Maaly Raw, and Wheezy, among others, all of whom help deliver a contemporary trap sound.

In June 2019, he revealed in an interview with The Fader that he began recording Whole Lotta Red towards the end of 2018, recording at DJ Drama's Means Street Studios in Atlanta and at his own home. Vamp Anthem" contains an uncredited interpolation from the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach. The album's imagery and merchandise designs have been noticed by journalists to be drawn from heavy metal imagery.Stop Breathing" contains an uncredited interpolation from " Shirt Off", written by Radric Davis, Xavier Dotson, Nyquan Malphurs and Greg Hogan, and performed by Gucci Mane, Wooh da Kid and Frenchie. In May 2019, he featured on " Earfquake", the lead single of Igor by Tyler, the Creator with fans noting his "baby voice". But there's no getting away from the fact that at 24 tracks long, there's not a lot of variety on 'Whole Lotta Red', and the biggest take away here is perhaps that perennial rap fan favourite: less is most definitely more". The cover is based on and pays homage to a cover of late 70s punk-rock magazine Slash; featuring David Vanian of the Damned.

F33l Lik3 Dyin" contains a sample from " iMi", written by Justin Vernon, James Blake, Rob Moose, Bradley Cook, Michael Lewis, Michael Noyce, Brandon Burton, Jeremy Nutzman, Channy Leaneagh, Wesley Glass and Josh Berg, as performed by Bon Iver.Whole Lotta Red debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 with 100,000 album-equivalent units (including 10,000 pure album sales) in its first week. DJ Akademiks posted on Twitter and mentioned on a livestream that the album was to be released Christmas Day and would be executively produced by Kanye West; he mentions in both the stream and Twitter that he "nearly sold his soul" to obtain said information.

On December 25, 2020, on the album's release date, a music video for the track "M3tamorphosis" featuring Kid Cudi was released. Whole Lotta Red features 24 tracks with appearances by rap superstars Future, Kid Cudi and Kanye West. Production was executively handeled by Kanye West, who appears on the song " Go2DaMoon" and was primarily handled by F1lthy and Art Dealer alongside several other record producers, including Pi'erre Bourne, Maaly Raw, Lil 88 and Wheezy.Fred Thomas reviewed the album for AllMusic, lauding the "blown-out instrumentals" and "demonic vocal performances".