Playboi Carti Gets His Own Lookalike Contest in Atlanta

Over the weekend, a group of Playboi Carti lookalikes gathered in downtown Atlanta to see who would be crowned the best impersonator.

The event was hosted by Atlanta-based media company, Frictionn.

“I saw the trend going crazy in New York,” founder Penson Dodgers told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “I saw the Timothée one and then the Drake one, and I was like, ‘Oh, it’s coming to Atlanta.’ I was really joking and put up a poll for our followers and was just like, ‘What should we do? Gunna, Young Thug, Carti or Future?’ Then it became a tie between Carti and Thug. We did the tiebreaker, and that’s what it was.”

In three days, Frictionn organized the event, which saw 40 Carti fans pull up to find out if they had what it takes to be his twin. Five contestants competed with each other, testing the knowledge of trivia, and song and lyric recognition.

The winner was 20-year-old Kleo Jackson, the only woman who competed. She donned a black hoodie and Carti’s facial piercings. She won $100, a Kaws book, and a jacket by Frictionn’s brand Industry Plant.

“At first he was very underground, and then he wasn’t,” Jackson said of the Whole Lotta Red artist. “I feel like his fashion sense is really good, though. He’s a very beautiful man, if we’re being completely honest, so it makes a lot of sense that he would be on a runway. I think that’s pretty cool. His outfits are slick, and that’s why I tried to drip like that today.”