10 Stories LEVEL Didn’t Write, but You Should Still Read (Right Now)

Sure, we want every great story to come from us — but here are a few that didn’t

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Here at LEVEL, part of the mission is to deliver you the best stories you’re going to read on any given day. That one link that keeps flying by in the TL? We want it to be from us. But, given that we just launched a few short weeks ago and don’t own a Delorean, there was no way we were able to do that all 365 days of 2019. So for the 336 days we weren’t around, please accept this roundup of the stories from the rest of the world that got us talking — not to mention thinking, feeling, and sometimes laughing. Here’s to much, much more of all those things in 2020. Happy holidays, y’all.

Ben Dandridge-Lemco, “Young Carti Global” (The Fader)

Playboi Carti’s rise to fame doesn’t make sense to me. Rather, the unrelenting determination of Carti stans doesn’t make sense to me — and I’m one of them. I spent the better half of this year scouring the internet looking for low quality “whole lotta red” leaks that I would then debut in my friend’s car with the same sense of pride that Mark…