Playboi Carti might be the greatest vanishing act rap has ever seen

First question from the Playboi Carti concert: Where’s Playboi Carti? Up there, somewhere. Atop the towering 20-foot stage, the Atlanta rap visionary was one of more than a dozen entourage silhouettes prowling around in the dense artificial fog, backlit by milky strobes and apricot pyrotechnicalities, shouting his rhymes in a state of exalted anonymity. Here was a rap star confident enough to pull up to a screaming stadium — Washington’s Capital One Arena on Tuesday night — and then disappear.