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Playboi Carti’s first rap name was $ir Cartier

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Before Jordan Terrell Carter was known as Playboi Carti, he went by the name Sir Cartier (styled as $ir Cartier) around the same time he started working with Awful Records collective. In 2011, Playboi Carti released music under the moniker ‘$ir Cartier.’

Playboi Carti released his first mixtape ‘Young Mi$fit’ on his bandcamp, the 9-track mixtape was released on November 12, 2012 and features a song called $TEEZE, which he shot a music video to. A lot of his early work has since been deleted from the Internet.

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