{"id":401527,"date":"2025-11-24T15:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/401527\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T15:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:04:12","slug":"playboi-carti-had-mosh-pits-going-all-night-at-fort-worth-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/401527\/","title":{"rendered":"Playboi Carti Had Mosh Pits Going All Night at Fort Worth Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

Playboi Carti\u2019s Antagonist Tour stopped in Fort Worth on Friday (Nov. 21), and Dickies Arena<\/a> was shaken to its core with the intensity from every performer\u2019s set. The pit was flooded with fans donning all black and foaming at the mouth, all ready to rage. <\/p>\n

Carti\u2019s Opium collective and its affiliates (Ken Carson, Destroy Lonely, Homixide Gang, and Apollo Red) have steadily cemented themselves as the future of trap music and one of the most influential groups for today\u2019s youth. The fanbase is one of the few that can legitimately be called cult-like, with some of the most dedicated and diehard fans in hip-hop<\/a>. Ironically, their behavior online closely mimics the parasocial obsession that Taylor Swift fans<\/a> are known for, although their vamp aesthetic couldn\u2019t be more different.<\/p>\n

The sold-out show was something of a social event for concertgoers. Groups of friends could be seen at every corner snapping a photo for Instagram or circling in the pit to hype each other up as they moshed to the music.<\/p>\n

The drive to Fort Worth from Big D was well over an hour with traffic, but it might be the closest concert Dallas fans get for a while. Aside from his spot on The Weeknd\u2019s After Hours Till Dawn Tour in Arlington back in August, Friday\u2019s show was his first North Texas headlining concert since 2018, when he hit South Side Ballroom. <\/p>\n

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Apollo Red, the newest artist signed to Carti\u2019s Young Vamp Life (YVL) label, which differs from the main label, Opium, and Homixide Gang, opened the show with quick and energetic sets. Then, \u201cLOCK IN\u201d started, and Destroy Lonely ran out to an onslaught of applause.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Lonely floated around the dark stage like a silhouette through pink smoke while he performed \u201cscrewed up.\u201d The rapper was bursting with energy and didn\u2019t hold back. <\/p>\n

\u201cHow you feel, Dallas?\u201d he asked before dropping into \u201chow you feel.\u201d The audience chanted along word for word as he ran sporadically across the stage.<\/p>\n

The same treatment was given to just about every song in Lonely\u2019s set and those that followed. As soon as an instrumental started, fans jumped right in bar for bar and the pit went crazy.<\/p>\n

Lonely undoubtedly gave the most energetic performance of the night. He seemed to run out of breath and almost lost his voice hyping up the crowd, screaming \u201cDallas!\u201d over and over to increasingly loud cheers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of beautiful people out here, it\u2019s a great night,\u201d he said to the crowd. \u201cIf you woke up no stylist, say \u2018Hell yeah.’\u201d<\/p>\n

The whole arena shook as he started into \u201cno stylist,\u201d his most popular song to date. The Atlanta-born rapper then left the stage, and there was a brief pause before the next act came out.<\/p>\n

Two long columns of fire arose behind Ken Carson as he walked out to \u201cLord of Chaos.\u201d The pit reacted accordingly and soon became a whirlpool of human bodies.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Except for the lights at the top in front of the stage, the arena was mainly lit by the light from everyone\u2019s phones. It genuinely seemed like everyone was recording the entire show, and the room would get noticeably darker as people in the pit put their phones down to mosh.<\/p>\n

Huge pillars of smoke and fire shot out with every beat drop, explosively lighting up the dark room while Carson calmly strutted the stage. He commanded the room with ease, inciting the arena into a frenzy with a shrill \u201cWhat the fuck?!\u201d<\/p>\n

Everything from the floor to the nosebleeds quaked when he played \u201cLose It,\u201d \u201css\u201d and \u201di need u.\u201d The crowd was a sea of various black fabrics, flailing arms and iPhones, but moved surprisingly in sync. For some songs, they jumped in place or ran in small circles, but for tracks like \u201cMe N My Kup\u201d and \u201cRock N Roll,\u201d it was pure Armageddon, and everyone seemed to be on the same page about it. <\/p>\n

Carson played a near non-stop set, then swiftly exited the stage to uproar.<\/p>\n

After a relatively short wait, the lights went out, and Carti took to the stage in full vampire attire, sporting a white button-up shirt and a black jacket over black leather pants. The music had seemed to get louder as the night progressed, and by the time Carti came out, it was deafening, but those in attendance couldn\u2019t have cared less. People without earplugs surely went home with lasting damage to their hearing, but the show was damn near worth the tinnitus. <\/p>\n

Carti\u2019s posse danced and swung around lights on top of two semi-trucks protruding from the stage as he performed \u201cFREE THROW.\u201d One guy hopped on a smoking pickup truck in the pit and danced as the crowd surrounded him, shaking the vehicle back and forth.<\/p>\n

Strobe lights flashed violently as Carti performed \u201cK POP.\u201d The arena could feel the heat from the flames shooting out behind him as he rapped \u201cEVIL JORDAN.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some earlier acts ad-libbed through a good portion of their songs, but as far as we could tell, Carti seemed to rap almost every track word for word. Maybe he took it to heart when The Weeknd called him out during their tour for not singing his verses on stage.<\/p>\n

He played through most of I AM MUSIC as well as some of his older songs and tracks he\u2019s featured on, like Future\u2019s \u201cType Shit\u201d and Travis Scott\u2019s \u201cFEIN,\u201d which sent everyone into a frenzy.<\/p>\n

The place exploded when he played \u201cStop Breathing\u201d and \u201cRockstar Made,\u201d two classics off of 2020\u2019s WLR, an album fans thought would never be released. Carti ended the night with a stream of throwbacks, including \u201cSky,\u201d \u201cShoota\u201d and \u201cLocation.\u201d <\/p>\n

Looking back at Carti\u2019s self-titled album, it is clear that he has undergone numerous musical and stylistic phases; however, despite these changes, his success and influence remain undeniable. The unreleased track, rumored to be titled \u201cMade It This Far,\u201d served as a fitting exit anthem as he walked out through the pit in between droves of screaming fans. We don\u2019t know when we\u2019ll see Playboi Carti next, but if the show is anything like on Friday, we\u2019ll drive as long as it takes to be there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Playboi Carti\u2019s Antagonist Tour stopped in Fort Worth on Friday (Nov. 21), and Dickies Arena was shaken to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":401528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,89977,7371,7372,14839,12079,358,132131,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-401527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-concert-reviews","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-hip-hop","13":"tag-nightlife","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-touring-artists","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115605292076220899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}