Placenta is the fourth collection of imaginative and highly collaborative Carlos Niño & Friends music released on International Anthem since 2021. Perhaps more notably for the zeitgeist of today, it's the first new music to be released by Carlos Niño & Friends following the November 2023 release of André 3000's New Blue Sun - which Carlos produced alongside André, co-writing, co-creating/playing, and co-mixing every song. Placenta is "dedicated to Mothers, Children, Babies, Aunties, Doulas, Midwives, Birthworkers.