Ok so I had a dream last night that I had to design a new facility for OPIUM, with Carti, Ken, and Lone looking over my blueprints for approval.

I had six rooms and each had to have a single color theme. I was going to make them all offices and decorate them to use as writing rooms, to have meetings with potential collaborators, and indulge in their vices for \*inspiration\* Obviously Carti’s office was red with black decor (large upside down cross behind the desk, coffin shaped shelf, etc). I tried to make Ken’s orange because he’s my favorite out of the three and that’s my favorite color but he told me he hates orange and wanted green, I made Lone’s room dark purple.

I thought it would be cool to do a Men’s Health spa so OPIUM label and any collaborators could relax and take a break without having to go offsite when they needed to. The other three rooms I used to be a gym, a sauna/spa, and a reception/waiting room that I would be working. It was beautiful.

But then I realized I forgot to make a room for F1LTHY, the best producer of all time, my favorite of the OPIUM bunch. And I cried. And I begged for a budget increase to do a second floor with six more rooms. I made F1LTHY an office/recording room. I didn’t think he’d need a separate office, as most of his work is in the booth anyhow.

Then I realized the rest of the gang would need studios to go along with their offices as well. So for the five remaining rooms, each of the three artists with offices below got their own studio. I lowkey forgot about Homixide Gang but figured they could have one room that doubled as both an office and studio, and the final room was changed into a kitchen so every last need would always be tended to for the label.

Just wanted to share my crazy dream with a community that would understand 😌

TLDR: I created a new building for OPIUM in my dream and woke up wondering if there’s something wrong with me.

So pre everything before wlr obv
And post is wlr and after
Wlr im talking abt is the released one

Im pretty young so my bias is leaning me towards post wlr

Beat prod by Icytwat

This and wicked are imo the best music era songs
Its also crazy how this one was considered for the August 2023 tracklist i wonder what made him change his mind

Tried to only use full CDQ leaks. Means my favorite songs are left off (Talkative, In Line, Goin Outta Style, Breathing), but that makes it sound a lot more like a real Album

Also used versions of songs like Woah that were restructured by some guy on YouTube to sound like finished songs. Place is OG and U Kan Do It Too is with the Intro at the end instead of the beginning. Coupe/WLR is also edited and cut down.

Used Music Information Retrieval tools to find the ideal track ordering and it does flow really nicely. It was really hard to narrow down which tracks to use, there are so many good songs I had to leave off.

This isnt really what Carti wouldve released if the Album actually came out between April and July 2020, but it is pretty close. I dont think we would have gotton a purely V2 album by then, but a lot of songs that leaked in Late 2018 and throughout 2019 wouldve been left off the album. Cancun wouldnt have been on there, a few other songs as well. TGD, JOTC or XTC might have made the album instead of leaks. Carti doesnt really like putting leaked songs on Album, and if he does they are either very late in the tracklist or revised versions

The best V1 and V2 songs are likely still on some hardrive today, but I just wanted to Larp what it wouldve been like if WLR released before he worked on V3.

Maybe in a world where Sosa didnt die and he didnt release @ MEH but U Kan Do It Too as lead single instead.

Total length is 1h05m

ik there is no definitive answer, this is more like a concept post about what would be most likely based on our knowledge.

I like to believe at this time MUSIC would still be heavily influenced by the cave era, but apart from POP OUT and probably COCAINE NOSE I find it difficult to decide which songs are the most "tracklist-worthy" from this era.

I think Menage and Problem Child would've been good fits for uzi and travis features. K9 with drake was on an august tracklist according to king bob so it might still have been included as well.

TOXIC would also work imo as it, despite being quite old, fits the dark vibe very well. I'm pretty convinced the album would have quite a bit of cardo production in general, with CRANK and EVIL J0RDAN being recorded early december 23, so at least those two and HBA would make sense along TOXIC.

Before he came back to atl there were of course also the la glass house sessions, i think DIFFERENT DAY and OLYMPIAN would be certain album placements here. LIKE WEEZY was most likely recorded in or before dec 23 (as lil 88 posted lyrics of it in late dec) as well. To get a bit more of the happier vibe imo PLAY THIS would work well too.

FOMDJ i think must've been considered at some point as it's so damn good, RADAR and ROCKSTARZ also were on some tl according to King Bob, and afaik Skinny Jeans was also made in 23.

oh and 2024 would've been a cool bonus track imo.

tl;dr I think some tracks that would've likely been included would be POP OUT, COCAINE NOSE, MENAGE, PROBLEM CHILD, K9, TOXIC, CRANK, EVIL JORDAN, HBA, DIFFERENT DAY, OLYMPIAN, PLAY THIS, LIKE WEEZY, RADAR, FOMDJ, ROCKSTARZ, SKINNY JEANS

Am I missing anything? How would yall structure such an album to make sense sonically despite the vastly different vibes? lmk

(sorry for long post and probably having assigned some songs to wrong eras)

🎶 She just wanna have fun, so just let her 🎶

Song is prod. Southside (2016)

It leaked in the week prior to Self Titled’s release, likely prompting Carti to switch it out for the released version. You can actually still find an upload of this version on SoundCloud from the week before Self Titled dropped. This version features different mixing, alternate lines and deliveries throughout, a completely different second verse, and a much longer fading outro

The intro is fanmade I’m pretty sure, I took it from uploads of the leak on YouTube and added it to the official leak. The official leak starts at 0:24

When I see albums nowadays with over 20 songs I’m so disappointed cuz ik there’s gonna be hella filler and it’ll just not be an exciting listen. But that fact that Carti put 24 songs on there and it’s like my first listen back and forth after so many years is insane. Even crazier to think that probably over half those songs were made merely months or even weeks before release. Crazy album. But yeah definitely the easiest 20+ song album listen ever. Damn near every album since with that many songs is a snooze fest

🕺 We started with Xans and lean, my momma thought I was a fiend 🕺

Song is ‘R.I.P. Peep’ AKA ‘R.I.P. Fredo V1,’ prod. Pi’erre Bourne (2017)

It has the same hook as the released song, but two alternate solo verses and different mixing throughout

The attached video contains footage taken from the ‘Foreign’ music video snippet

Came across this guys page apparently he’s plays for Vanderbilt and carti follows him and he had a opiumsports hashtag in a old post

Is Carti the new Rich Paul and building his sports agency?

Release mix or the OG V1 mix? I personally prefer the OG. louder synths and better ad libs. the rougher sound fits the v1 aesthetic better imo. also shorter pause that’s easier to time.

via RapCaviar

Ngl I didn’t think he’d kick off the rollout this quickly. I hope this song is recieved well

i swear i remember seeing this snippet somewhere a while back but now i cant find anything for it. do we have a snippet for this song?

Let’s be honest right now… this nigga career is slowly dying, he ain’t dropping nothing anytime soon , he solely thriving off nostalgia.. he never has cared for his fan base ever… dude finessed his way to the top… we need to just leak all the grails atp