Playboi Carti — slender as a string bean, flexible as a yogi, his dreads dyed almost the same beige as his cropped jacket — bounded onto the main stage at the Rolling Loud festival Saturday night to rile up his faithful. Carti is an impressionist rapper, slurring together syllables and murmurs into cloudy chant-along mantras. But onstage, he was a dynamo — jumping wildly, curling his body into a parabola as he shouted to the sky, and inciting his tens of thousands of fans to mosh.

This was something like the platonic ideal of a Rolling Loud performance — modern, young, deconstructed, riotous.

This traveling hip-hop festival made its New York debut in the parking lots of Citi Field in Queens on Saturday and Sunday for what was almost certainly the largest multiday rap event ever in the city; 60,000 tickets were sold for each day.