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Overview of Opium Record Label and Artists

op opium is a record label and creative agency based in Atlanta Georgia that Playboy cardi founded and curated in 2019 the label is distributed by Inner scope records and currently features the artist play cardi Ken Carson destroy lonely and homicide gang in an interview with XXL cardi had this to say about his label opium is my label my artists that I have are Ken Carson destroy lonely and homicide bino and homicide Mei I have a gang of producers I came in first just signing a gang of producers Ken and lonely they are two kids who grew up where I'm from and they are family as they got older they started rapping I met homicide about 3 years ago and when I first got with them my cousins good friends with them boom boom boom boom boom I had Beno with me every day and one day he just sent me a song and I was just like wow they're Superstars I love them they have my full Focus that's it opium has its own signature aesthetic with its own style of trap music Dark fashion and a mysterious Ambience that leaves you wondering like rarely posting on social media the Opium label hasn't been around for long but has already become one of the most popular labels in the hip-hop and rap genre if you listen to hip-hop and rap you've most likely heard of opium or at least an artist under it but how far does your knowledge of opium go does it lie just at the tip of the iceberg or does it reach far Beneath the Sea in this video I'll be explaining the full opium Iceberg covering everything there is to know about the mysterious trap label with a catlike fan base stemming from its founder Playboy cardi now let's take a dive in and find out how deep your knowledge of opium really goes Jordan Terrell Carter professionally known as Playboy cardi is a recording artist from Atlanta Georgia he was bornn on September 13th 1996 cardi began his musical journey in 2011 on Soundcloud under the name sir cardier a play on his last name while also showing his interest in fashion and luxury Brands he changed his artist name to Playboy cardi in May of 2013 and he joined awful records the following year the production behind most of card's earliest Works was handled by awful's ethereal who would help him Garner a local following cardi would frequently collaborate with his cousin and fellow Zone 3 rapper Uno the activist after graduating from North Springs High School in 2014 cardi moved to New York where he would become acquainted with ASAP Rocky and later affiliated with Rocky's ctive agency awge a month later cardi released singles broke booy and fetty which both became viral hits in the underground rap scene on September 10th 2016 Rocky announced at a show that cardi had signed to Inner scope records under inner scope and awge cardi released his longwa to debut commercial mixtape played by cardi on April 14th 2017 the record featured two of card's biggest singles Magnolia and woke up like this which would Propel him into the mainstream cardi released his debut studio album diet on May 11th 2018 dilet features catching uncomplicated tracks with a majority of its production done by pierrebourne cardi explores a range of different vocal inflections most notably on flatbed freestyle where he uses a higher pitch flow known as his baby voice the songs Shuda fell in love and rip are some of card's biggest songs that came from this album in 2019 cardi founded and curated opium the next year he released his very high anticipated sophomore studio album whole out of red on Christmas Day this album saw cardi trading in his baby cadences for a more aggressive sound drawing similarities to the punk genre the album was met with heavy criticism at first due to the sound not being what his fans expected but many people changed their opinions on the album over time many artists actually began to make music that was very clearly inspired by holot red with a more punk-like trap sound cardi is now one of hip-hop's biggest stars headlining major events like rolling loud with people dying to see his hyper energetic performances his opium label and the artists under it are continuing to grow rapidly further cementing card's Legacy in the rap genre Kenyata Lee Frasier Jr known professionally as Ken Carson is a recording artist and record producer from Atlanta Georgia he's born on April 11th 2000 from a very young age Ken already had many Connections in the hip-hop industry from 2015 to like 2020 my life was like really mackam in the middle from Young Thug session I'm going to cardi session I've been on LA y since I was like 10 years old so I might wake up at tm88 house I remember when they were making super slimy futuring Young Thug him and Southside like be cooking up at a studio all day and by the night time we going to pull up on them to take them to beats they going to make the songs that's every day though like since I was like 15 years old before I ever like stepped in front of the mic myself Ken would begin releasing music on SoundCloud as early as 2017 after getting popular it in the underground rap scene he was discovered by playboy cardi and in 2019 he became the first artist to sign the Cardi's opium Label 3 years later in 2022 he also landed a deal with inner scope records Ken's musical style has been described as having electronic production that is energetic in nature with his flows being intent on making his audience get up from their seats Ken describes his sound as feel-good music stating if you're down it's going to make you feel good his sound has actually been compared to his mentor Playboy cardi and his album whole out of red many people call Ken one of the leaders of the new underground rap scene which is something people also say about Bobby Wardell sandag the third known professionally as destroyed lonely is a recording artist from Atlanta Georgia he was born on July 30th 2001 lone has two younger sisters and an older brother which noted are only half siblings and he mentioned that he felt more like an only child he began home school in the sixth grade with permission from his grandmother who was a former teacher he enrolled back in school in the 9th and 10th grades where he recalls abusing the drugs XEX during his his time in school he showed off a strength in writing loan started working on music at the age of 14 making his first songs in a recording studio at his school he met two of his best friends texo Cam and nezis who had produce many of his early works and continue to work with him on later projects at school his earliest official releases came in late 2015 on Soundcloud lone sound has been described as otherworldly ominous instrumentals alongside his dark ambient voice delivery doubling down in his mysterious Persona after growing his fan base and releasing multiple projects lone signic card's opium label in early 2021 through inner scope records and in groves lone has grown exponentially since signing with opium and looks like he's not slowing down anytime soon Keon Thomas AKA homicide bino and Demetrius Chapman AKA homicide Mei are a rap Duo from Atlanta Georgia professionally known as homicide gang bino was born on January 4th 2000 and Mei was born on October 10th 2000 they met each other in high school and quickly became close before they started making music themselves they were around other artists like R5 big Ai and problemchild problemchild is actually the artist they met cardi through running into him at the studio bino and Mei started rapping around 2 years ago and they signed the Cardi's opium label in 2021 cardi has mentioned homicide multiple times in his songs including a song named after boo himself the music homicide gang makes can be described as aggressive trap and they're known for their choice of Highly energetic beats that make people want to move what are y'all looking for in a beat that that makes y'all want to jump on it it what a't B my head [ __ ] A there that's first and L know got to be since joining opium they've gained a large following in a relatively short amount of [Music] time no stylist is destroyed lonely's most popular song lone released the song on August 12th 2022 as a part of his mixtape also named no stylist on the song lone hops on a synth field upbeat instrumental to rap about his wealth love for women and his fashion of course he makes sure to clarify that his outfits are chosen by him and him only something that helped the song become so popular so fast is that it quickly became a trend on Tik Tok there's over 150,000 Tik toks made using the song No stylist all serving as free promotion helping it increase its audience the music video to no stylist is currently the most viewed video on Destroy lonely's YouTube channel by far the song helped loan get his name out to a more mainstream group of listeners Yale is Ken Carson's most popular song Ken released this song on August 14th 2020 as a part of his Teen X the song is a short but extremely catchy trap Anthem with no hook over repetitive hard-hitting beat on Yale Ken raps about drug use guns and making love with the girl who goes to Yale the song was not popular for a while after it released as Ken didn't have a large following at the time some factors that helped the song become popular are Tik toks and meme Pages using the song as well as it being recommended to a lot of cardi listeners on on platforms like YouTube speaking of YouTube the music video to Yale is the most feed video on Ken Carson's channel the song Yale helped Ken build his fan base as it gained more and more traction over time Bane is one of destroyed lon's most popular songs the song was released on July 30th 2019 but didn't really become popular until just over 2 years after its release when the song's instrumental started making its rounds on Tik Tok it quickly became a trend where people would move in some sort of way then reverse their movements in a fun or entertaining manner the beat of the song is Angelic and spatial and lone raps over it about his braggadocious lifestyle and how hard he's work to get to where he is the song's title comes from the fictional DC Comic super villain Bane who is an enemy of Batman I hate Batman Ken has a series of three freestyle songs two of which are among his more popular releases the first two freestyle songs released via Ken's X Album on July 8th 2022 freestyle one appears first and is the least popular in the Ken freestyle song series it's also the only one of the three songs that includes a hook freestyle 2 appears on Ken's album right after freestyle 1 and it's by far the most popular of his freestyle series it's also the only one of the three to get a music video there was a Tik Tok dance created for this song as well something that makes this song Stand Out is its instantly hard-hitting beat produced by filthy on said beat Ken wraps catchy lines about designer clothes drugs guns and women Ken described the song as the definition of him freestyle 2 is I feel like that song is the definition of me for real I make songs out day I make a million songs but that one song determines where I really am and it matches like everything I like Freestyle 3 is the most recent song that Ken freestyle series Ken first previewed Freestyle 3 on July 8th 2022 through an Instagram live two months following this the snippet of the song would gain traction on Tik Tok being used in a multitude of different videos it officially released on October 31st 2022 as a part of the deluxe version of Ken's X Album extended when it released some fans were upset that the song didn't sound as distorted as the snippet he previewed months prior saying the bass was way too low and that it was mixed poorly the song Still performed well nonetheless and is the second most popular song in Ken's freestyle series despite public opinion however I think freestyle one is the best of the three songs if looks could kill as one of Lan's most popular songs which generated a ton of hype prior to its release loone previewed the song on Instagram live on October 19th 2022 where he was seen wearing a Halloween mask which fit the vibe of the dark and gloomy trap beat as well as the lyrics of the song the snippet of the song gained a lot of traction on Tik Tok with over 200,000 posts and 75 million views prior to its official release on March 3rd 2023 he officially released the song and performed it the same night during his rolling loud set the song was an instant success reaching number two on Billboard's us bubbling under Hot 100 singles chart shortly after its release it's also loan's most viewed audio and second most viewed video on YouTube despite not being out for nearly as long as the song surrounding it rock and roll is one of Ken's most popular songs being highly anticipated amongst the many songs that he's previewed Ken first teased the song on April 11th 2021 on his Instagram live and following that numerous Snippets had surfaced online building up the song's hype the track was officially released on July 23rd 2021 as a part of Ken's Project X Album on the song Ken wraps catchy bars about rock and roll drugs guns and women no stylist has destroy lonely's highly anticipated fifth mixtape released through opium inner scope records and in groves it was Serv as loan's first project released under the Opium label the first mention of no stylist dates all the way back to March of 2020 where loan teased the mixtape as a mini project in a tweet after continuing to tweet about the project loan finally teased a release date of October 1st 2021 in a now deleted tweet but the project failed to meet that deadline after leaving the mixtape status entirely in the dark it was finally released on August 12th 2022 with no promotion 8 months after its last mention the mixtap became loans first to chart entering at number 91 on Billboard 200 following the Project's success Lan confirmed a deluxe version to the mixtape was coming via a tweet on September 15th 2022 the deluxe containing five new songs was released on November 18th 2022 under the name NS plus Ultra Ultra being the name of lon's pet cat the cover art of NS plus Ultra inspired many people to post sunsets they found similar to that on the cover of the Project X is Ken Carson's sophomore studio album released through opium and inter scope records the project went through several delays and name changes since it was first announced it was originally intended to be a deluxe version of his debut studio album and called project extended on August 21st 2021 Ken shared that the project would now be self-titled as the project went through more delays he again changed the Project's name this time to X-Men on May 7th 2022 Ken claimed that he had turned in the album with 18 songs on June 4th 2022 Ken tweeted that two more songs were added to the track list the Project's release date was finally confirmed on June 27th 2022 when billboard was spotted with the date July 8th the album was released on July 8th 2022 and Playboy cardi was the album's executive producer the album was a success becoming Ken's first to chart reaching number 115 on the billboard 200 5 days after the album's release Ken took to Twitter hinting at the possibility of a deluxe version to the album after keeping quiet for a while about the deluxe on October 11th Ken tweeted announcing that the deluxe would be set for a Halloween release Ken released the deluxe version on X titled extended on Halloween 2022 containing five new songs if looks could kill his destroy lonely's debut studio album released through opium and inner scope records it dropped on May 5th 2023 in three different versions vinyl CD and digital album all three versions have different album covers and bonus tracks the standard album length is 25 songs all of which having no features the CD contains the bonus tracks too damn rich and spilling the vinyl contains the bonus tracks check the fleet back sipping and money and SE with Ken Carson which is also the only bonus song featured on the digital album album the album's theme is inspired by the 1990s horror film franchise I Know What You Did Last Summer the album debuted at number 18 on the US billboard 200 earning 29,000 album equivalent units in its first week this made of looks can kill loan's highest charting album but despite this it was met with a lot of not very positive reviews some of the main critiques people had on this album is that it was too long the songs all sound the same and it has no replay value some even went as far as to say loan fell off after dropping this project regardless of the hate it was still a commercial success for loan a great chaos is Ken Carson's third studio album the first mention of this album came on February 14th 20123 when Ken released new merch to his website the merch contained two new t-shirts with a text displaying a great Chaos on May 31st 20123 Ken took the Twitter hinting on something being released in July two days later Ken revealed two new beanies with the album's title engraved further hinting on the album being on the way that same day Ken took to Twitter confirming the album's name and a July 17th release date after continuing to promote the album on June 25th 2023 Ken took to Twitter to reveal the album's official track list consisting of 14 songs and featuring destroy lonely and L Uzi vert the track list consisted of multiple songs that Kennan previously previewed from September 2022 through June 20123 such as hardcore pouring out the syrup paranoid it's over and Jennifer's Body the snippet he previewed for Jennifer's Body actually became a big trend on Tik Tok with people making use of the beat pauses for comedic effect [Music] [ __ ] the OG track list also contained the fyt or free young thug which is a song on Ken's January 2023 lost Files 4 project this song didn't make the final cut however once the date July 17th 2023 came around a great chaos did not come out kenned also announced the date July 21st for his song on the album titled it's over but that was not released on its plan date either Ken later stated in an interview that the album was done but it was in the label's hands on September 7th 2023 Ken took to Twitter hinting the album's release date for October 13th he confirmed this date by posting a picture where in the top right it revealed the same release date 4 days before its planned release date the entire album leaked online on October 9th 2023 this fortunately didn't prevent the album's release as it finally dropped on Friday the 13th in October 2023 it contains 18 songs the most popular of which being fighting my demons Jennifer's Body and paranoid a great chaos debut at number 11 on the billboard 200 selling 47 th000 copies in his first week making it by far Ken's most successful project to date hell yeah is a song by so fago featuring Ken Carson it's the most popular feature by any opium artist other than cardi himself the song leaked on September 22nd 2022 and was later released on October 17th 2022 the song is an uptempo rage track where fago and Ken trade verses about their wealth women and fashion rolling loud California 2023 was card's first ever as a headliner it was also set to feature all of opium including Ken loan and homicide gang as well but homicide didn't end up making it cardi Ken and Loan all performed March 3rd 2023 on was given the name opium Friday lone was the first to perform and he opened his set with if looks could kill which was actually released that same day Ken was next and opened with an at the time unreleased song it's [Music] over cardi was last to perform and he like Ken opened with an unreleased song given the name Rockstar cardi apparently made the song right before the show in 5 minutes three more songs were played and then the show got abruptly stopped they stopped the [ __ ] music people at the time didn't know what was going on or if the show was even going to continue There were rumors that somebody in the crowd had died but this was false and it ended up being an injury concern cardi ended up coming back out into the song stop breathing as well which was ironic before performing his last song cardi gave a speech about what went on that night they wanted me to start my show three songs in and I came back out because I love my fans and I didn't want anybody to think I'm just on some [ __ ] I love you guys so much we don't have the police to Fire Marshal everyone you know but as always the most important thing is about you guys safety and I'm sorry and I love you guys so much but I have to leave before leaving cardi performed one more song which was location a song he hadn't performed in a long time this cardi rolling loud set is the most viewed video on the rolling loud YouTube channel beating his own 2021 New York set on August 23rd 2021 cardi posted a series of pictures to Instagram all with the caption narcissist 91321 he then changed his website theme and announced a tour called The Narcissist tour when the actual day 91321 came around no music dropped mardy's website was updated and showed off new Nar themed merch the next day cardi tweeted to clarify that his website was hacked and that the merch that had been posted was just a reference folder that was never approved one day later cardi made another tweet showing a text message he sent to three people reading forget about sample clearances drop narcissist this confirmed that narcissist was indeed music because he mentioned sample clearances 2 Days Later cardi and Uzi were spotted together both wearing jackets with card's narcissist text on the Back 9 days later cardi made a tweet tweet which simply read narcissist over a year later in October of 2022 cardi launched a countdown timer on the website for his opium record label once the timer expired a new narcissist clothing line was revealed but still no music music is the supposed name of card's next album which is supposedly executively produced by filthy the name music comes from an April 2022 interview with XXL where cardi was asked the name of his next album and stated music because that's all it is at this point cardi never really mentioned the name music again until it's July 2023 wireless Festival set where the word music was played right before he played an unreleased song music [Music] music then after cardi announced opium's antagonist tour days later the site for the show in Berlin had text after the release of his new album music the 26-year-old artist will pay Europe a visit in the context of his antagonist tour this would have meant that card's album music would have dropped before the tour dates in Europe which were set to start on November 19th the quote about music was removed from their website shortly after its discovery on November 17th 2023 cardi made a post to his alt Instagram with the caption reading antagonist is forever music will be forever potentially hinting at the music album on December 7th 2023 cardi took to his Instagram story to post a picture saying I am music which he and many others in his Camp changed to their profile picture the same day DJ academics announced via a live stream that cardi will be dropping his album in January cardi season is in effect starting today the album the project the music what you've waited for will be delivered in January cardi then previewed a new song snippet on IG with the date 2024 meaning his album is most likely coming in January 2024 fighting my demons is Ken's most popular song from a great chaos album Ken first previewed the song via his Snapchat story on March 15th 2023 on September 22nd 2023 it would come out by known leaker that the song would have a beat switch with another snippet that canid preview you know once the song finally released on October 13th 2023 it was an instant success quickly gaining traction on platforms like Tik Tok the success of the single led to a collaboration with Cole Bennett for a Halloween released music video paranoid is a highly anticipated Ken song featuring loone that was previously dubbed keltech by fans the song was first previewed in Instagram live on December 11 2022 where Ken only previewed his verse leading many to believe that it was a solo song a second snippet of the song Would surface on April 10th 2023 previewing a verse from destroy lonely the rest of the song would be revealed during live performances in 2023 the song became a big trend on platforms like Tik Tok and was very sought after by fans the song fully leaked on September 6 2023 but was still included on Ken's a great chaos album which released a month later on October 13th 2023 never ever is one of destroyed lonely's most popular songs coming from the deluxe version of his no stylist album it's a very catchy song about how Lan will never change on those close to him even though his lifestyle has changed drastically the song had a weird trend on Tik Tok where people would show cute videos of different animals while playing never ever in the background Chang my nigas I changed my nigas I need you is a popular single released by Ken Carson on Valentine's Day in 2023 it's like a love song where Ken expresses the love he has for his girl while also flaunting his lavish Lifestyle the song was first previewed on December 10th 2022 but in an extremely sped up fashion people compared this to Alvin and the Chipmunks and made slow down versions of the snippet Murder music is Ken and loan's most streamed collaboration to date it was originally a part of Ken's lost files 3 in January 2022 before getting an official release on Ken's X Album in July of the same year on the song Ken and Loan Dro bars threatening their opponents and flexing their lavish Lifestyles the beat to the track was sampled from a yeet song titled never again Hardy Boys is a fan-made remix of Murder music with a cardi verse added from gun song Same young [ __ ] the song was remixed and uploaded by opium ji and amassed tens of millions of views on YouTube before being taken down the remix song was also used a lot on Tik Tok teen Bean is the last song added on Ken's July 2021 lost files 2 there's a specific line in the song where Ken references himself that went viral on Tik [Music] Tok due to its popularity it was officially released on February 18th 2022 it's now one of Ken's most popular and most iconic [Music] songs veteran is Ken and loan's second most streamed collaboration together it's a high octane track with the duo rap about their luxurious dangerous Lifestyles the song was initially pre through loan and Ken's Instagram live on November 17th 2021 and fans gave it the name fit the song was also previewed during Ken's set at rolling loud 2021 and once more at another Ken Carson show in Atlanta that took place in January 2022 lifestyle is homicide gang's most popular song It's a hard-hitting track where homicide gang rap about gun violence women and fast cars the song's beat samples the end of the rock band 9999 song homicide side which is Loop throughout the entire [Music] song this sample made lifestyle homicide gang's most iconic song for sure hold my handwave is a popular song by destroy lonely that is not officially released only being posted to his SoundCloud it has over 4 million plays on his SoundCloud and nearly 3 million stram on Spotify under another person's account by the name of wound the song is an autotune braggadocious record with a hard-hitting and grungy production style where lone speaks on his intimate experiences with women his deadly weapons and his reassurement of his status Huna is homicide gang's second most popular song named after another homicide member it's also the first track that dropped featuring R5 homicide after his untimely death the song boasts hard-hitting production from from filthy and Jonah Abraham while extremely aggressive lyrics are being spit over it Project X is Ken Carson's debut studio album and the very first album released through card's opium label the album was originally intended to be an EP and on March 9th 2021 Ken tweeted that Project X would be released on his birthday April 11th 2021 he promised that this would be the last EP before his debut album then later revealed that the project had become his debut album and would now be released in August of 2021 on July 10th 2021 Ken confirmed that the album would be dropping on July 23rd 2021 and that ended up being its official release date Project X is the project where Ken really refined his sound and it is in my opinion one of his most consistent albums to date it contains some of his most popular songs such as rock and roll run plus ran and hel broken hearts is destroy lonely's first major project released on September 25th 2020 it was an important stepping Stone because it was the last project he released before signing to Opium the most popular songs from the project are fun and Miley Cyrus the deluxe version of the project broken hearts squared released on October 31st 2020 and added six new songs top floor boss oh yeah do Street Market bruy [ __ ] do or die and CDG the songs oh yeah and do Street Market were the most popular releases from the deluxe snod or not is homicide gang soft studio album released on April 27th 2023 the project was released a day early from its initial release due to it being leaked early there was one lead single to the album released a week prior which was ADHD the most popular song of the album by far Uzi work is a song that was first previewed in November 2022 it was highly anticipated but couldn't be released on their previous album due to sample clearance issues homicide game began their SN or notot tour just a week after the album's release Fifth Amendment is homicide gangs debut mixtape and their second release of 2023 following their April 2023 album snot orot little to no information surfaced prior to the release of this mixtape and it was first teased on September 17th 2023 where the duo made Instagram posts captioned with an October release hinting on new music on October 10th 2023 homicide gang released the tap's lead promotional single what it is with producer Pierre Bourne after keeping quiet on any other information on October 16th 2023 the duo took to Instagram to reveal the title and release date of the mixtape the official cover art and track list were not revealed until the tape's release the mixtape released on October 27th 2023 and consists of 19 tracks with problemchild 5 being the sole feature Teen X is Ken Carson's second project released on August 14th 2020 it's most recognized for being the project where Ken's most popular song Yale is from it's also recognized for the popular merchandise created showing off the album's cover art the deluxe version of the project titled Teen X relapsed dropped over 5 months after Teen X on January 31st 20121 with little to no promotion Teen X babe highest [ __ ] and teenager rager are the most popular tracks from the deluxe something else to note about Teen X is that it is a nickname that Ken would frequently use and cardi even made a song with that same name homicide lifestyle originally known as 55 is homicide gangs debut Studio album on September 6 2022 homicide gang took to Instagram revealing the album's original title and an early track list consisting of 15 songs The Duo also teased a September release however the album missed its original deadline on November 20th 2022 in an interview with our generation music The Duo announced that the album's title had been changed to homicide Lifestyle the duo also announced that the album would have over 19 tracks and would contain features from label mates destroyed lonely and Ken Carson the album released on November 22nd 2022 with 18 tracks featuring destroyed lonely Ken Carson bigelli and Huna the project is most notable for containing the group's most popular song Lifestyle snotty world is the debut collaborative EP by homicide bino and homicide Mei the project contains five short tracks all of titles ending in exclamation points a deluxe version of the album was released over 3 months after the original and saw much greater success some of the Duos most popular songs Huna 55 lifestyle and holler are all from snotty world deluxe every member of opium is notorious for falling victim to having their music leaked especially cardi cardi had hundreds of songs leaked and some of them are his most iconic and well-known songs to date Ken and Loan both have Spotify leakers who consistently have six figure monthly listeners and homicide gang even had to release their album snut a day early from its initial release due to it being leaked ear opium needs to hire their own anti-leak team or something oh leak a leak hacker all this I hate that sh that really delays like for real once a leaker or hacker gets your song it's like it's not even your song anymore is theirs the day before Lil uzi's highly anticipated pink Tape album dropped a snippet of a song featuring cardi surfaced online [Music] I this gave fans hoped that cardi would be on pink tape but he unfortunately wasn't well kind of cardio was actually accidentally put on the album only on YouTube though the song was titled patience featuring Don Tolliver it was actually a cardian Uzi song the antagonist tour is the first tour featuring every every opium artist is Headliners it's a nationwide US tour as well as a European tour there's a total of 36 different tour stop locations for the antagonist tour it was originally supposed to start on September 6th 2023 in Denver and end on December 4th 2023 in Denmark it was delayed at the end of August to start in November instead then in November the whole European leg of the tour was postponed I've already covered card's old arrest and mug shot in my last Iceberg what I'm referring to here is his most recent arrest reported on February 14th 2023 cardi was arrested on December 29th 2022 on a felony assault charge after allegedly choking his girlfriend who was 14 weeks pregnant he was released on bond a day after his arrest a new cardi mug shot came from this arrest and that resulted in many fans changing their social media profile pictures to the mug [Music] shot all h blon people also brought up old lyrics that seem damning after this arrest on June 13th 2023 popular jewelry designer waffy had taken to Instagram to note that Playboy cardi gifted young boy an opium chain while announcing the two have an album in the works stating o4 KT at Playboy cardi giv young boy a chain ahead of their new collab album O 4kt is a combination of the two's Brands oo stands for card's opium and 4kt stands for young boy's alleged gang and refers to his own label never broke again following the chain post cardi took to his Instagram story to post a picture of young boy wearing the chain furthermore filthy and opian baby took to Twitter to tease the album's release as well young boy has been called out several times for imitating cardi like on his songs Syracuse and hit as well as his appearance like when he wears face paint like cardi cardi fans don't generally seem too excited about a collab album with young boy and one potential reason is that a couple years ago young boy himself said that he wouldn't make a song with cardi would you ever do a song with uh uh cardi like yeah he kind of borders on on kind of like that Vibe as well uh no I no I don't think I no I no I don't think so no I'm just say no I no in September of 2022 a short video of Ken and loone after a haircut was posted using the song veteran this video spawned loads of memes and people poking fun at how Ken and Loan acted during the video I mean know I mean that one time iwit my Rock [Music] I when looking at the song veteran on Tik Tok it's just flooded with these haircut memes starting in 2020 people began to troll Ken Carson by comparing his looks to a Goomba from Mario many memes were made and people even began referring to Ken as Goomba Goomba someone even designed a Goomba plush with Ken's signature X belt and dreads this plush got so popular that it can even be purchased at Walmart now people have even thrown them at Ken during his [Music] [Applause] [Music] performances look Killa is the name of destroy lonely's Alter Ego that he developed from his If Looks Could Kill album whose theme is inspired by the 1990s horror film franchise I Know What You Did Last Summer the album was released alongside a short film on YouTube titled Li killer in the film Lan and Ken get hit on by different women in a club but Lan is attracted to a girl sitting alone who makes her own clothing all right excited thanks I actually made it myself after one girl leaves the club a lone song plays in her car and it leaves her dead people in the town are scared and don't know what's going on Lone talks about what happened to the girl he's into as well as another girl who's into him and invites them to a rave on the way to the Rave another person dies while Lan's music plays then when at the Rave lone invited the girl into him outside and here she's approached and killed by a masked figure wearing all black loan then meets with the girlies into and as they leave the Rave it's revealed that Lan is actually the one responsible for all the killings as he is shown holding the same mask the killer wore behind his back this same look killer mask was also sold on Lan's website as a part of the If Looks Could Kill album merch Richard Ortiz known professionally as filthy is a record producer from Philadelphia Pennsylvania signature upside down cross opium chain and is reportedly the executive producer of card's next album why up filthy Rick Owens is an American fashion designer from Porterville California his shoes and clothing are Infamous Staples and opium culture being worn by cardi and every other opium member as well cardi has been spotted wearing Rick Owens for years now and is likely getting paid to endorse the brand based on this lyric many fans of cardian opium by Rick owens's attire to replicate the look of their favorite artists in 2021 Rick did an interview with cardi for sedition mag Rick also gave loan a kind of co-sign in 2023 by making a Tik Tok to his iconic if looks could kill song Matthew Williams is an American designer creative and entrepreneur he's the co-founder of the fashion brand 1017 Els 9sm and was appointed the creative director of javoni women's and men's collections in June 2020 he's also a close friend of Playboy cardi Matthew first met cardi in Miami at a studio where he was arguing with an engineer and psyching out cardi thought he scared him off but the next day he called him and even said he messed with him and to pull up ever since then they've been locked in Matthews contributed his own ideas for card's videos and photo shoots cardio Serv is both a muse and campaign model for javoni as [Music] well the two even did a whole modeling shoot together Matthew also collaborated with lone to make destroy lonely Leakes clothing in 2020 before holot red was released Matthew said this about the album and got heavily memed for it you know my twins's going to deliver a classic you know my twins's going to deliver a classic you know my Twin's going to deliver a classic you know my twins's going to deliver a classic burbury Ary is a punk skater who was known for his distinctive tricks modeling gigs for high-end labels like Balenciaga and for his appearance at Kanye West dondu listening party alongside his friend Playboy cardi he's also popular for his distinctive Liberty spikes he was also the first non- artist to sign with card's opium label so I'm like assigned to Opium as a creative consultant stylist and a model he's now always seen around party specifically during his [Music] [Applause] shows Onyx is the first member to join opium by Blood being Cardi's firstborn son his mother is Iggy aelia cardi has shouted out his son multiple times in his songs also noting that he got him tatted and I put this on I'm leave my I put this on it's public knowledge that cardi has a son with igy aelia what is less known about is that he also apparently has a daughter that he hasn't publicized yet the first report of this came in July 2023 when a girl who did card's tattoos made a comment describing what tattoos she gave him the last two were baby girl on jaw and daughter's name inside ear implying that cardi had a daughter a few weeks later card's ex Brandy Maran posted an Instagram story stating my babies got the best aunties leading people to believe that she's the mother of card's daughter card's Wikipedia page is also updated to say he has two children starting in February 2023 homicide bino had a load of wild allegations become public accusing him of doing things with minors another homicide member named homicide Osama was also accused of the same thing boo had multiple incriminating DMS leak as well as chats with other people saying what they saw him do and even a phone call of him allegedly trying to go to an underage girl's house to go home yeah okay I'll text you all right okay bye when the allegations were brought to his attention boo never seemed to deny them but just simply laugh at them shortly after the allegations came to light homicide announced that they wouldn't be finishing their tour due to circumstances out of their control it's now a running joke for people to call homicide Dino homicide pedo due to his allegations voo I'm 14 I'm 14 boo oh and that homicide Osama dude also made a song titled not for kids as a response to his [Music] allegations in October of 2022 during a now deleted drink Champs interview Kanye stated that Lil Uzi and Playboy cardi are the future Uzi the future U I just need to tell you that little Uzi Uzi Uzi really you know what it is it's always two it's always two at a time you know what I mean it's really cardia Uzi it's really cardia Uzi Playboy cardia [Music] Uzi the baby voice ter raspy Punk voice the next voice he's using is a deeper voice similar to the likes of future our first taste of this new cardi sound came in February 2022 during y's Dawn two listening party on the song Mr Miyagi I [Music] just two months later in April a Cy interview with XXL was released the interviewer got to hear some of his newer unreleased music and stated what you played was a deeper voice it had a bit of a different sound to what we've heard in the past the next we got to hear of card's deep voice wasn't until January of 2023 and it was a scrapped verse for trippy's Mansion music and in April 2023 three new songs with Cardi's deep voice were heard online all R killers and two [Music] out to this point every instance of card's deep voice were on unreleased songs meaning the general public didn't know about it yet the song that finally brought card's deep voice to the mainstream is fiend with Travis Scott which released on his July 2023 album [Music] Utopia a day after fi was released one more deep voice cardi snippet surface titled for my [Music] hoe pain 1993 is a song featuring Drake and cardi that released in May 2020 the title is a nod to Fashion Designer Ian Connor's motto born from Pain 1993 Ian is a longtime friend of Drake and cardi and he was previously card's manager card's verse on the song was met with many negative reviews due to how high of a pitch he used an OG clip of card's verse on the song also surfaced showing him using a much more normal pitch a lot of fans were upset that he didn't use the voice from the leaked snippet in March of 2023 it was revealed that Ian Connor is the reason cardi changed his verse on the song he shared messages with he and Drake before the song dropped in the messages Drake compared cardi to Michael Jackson for not sending him the verse then Ian sent a message saying I didn't like his verse so he redid it and we'll turn it in right before the album this caused many fans to get upset with Ian Connor before Ken and loone were as big as they are now they used to be openers for card's concerts then as Ken grew more popular Lan was an opener for Ken's concerts then as lone grew more popular homicide gang was an opener for loon concerts and now it's gotten to the point where even homicide gang is headlining their own tour Anthony fantana was a YouTuber known for rating albums shortly after they release when he first reviewed cardi he wasn't a fan but grew more fond of him after hearing diid when it comes to Ken and loan he did not like their projects at all he reviewed Ken's X Album and gave it a zero out of 10 then when he reviewed loans no stylus a month later he gave it a one out of 10 after this happened opium fans were Furious and doxed him leaking his divorce papers and wife he then gave if looks could kill of one out of 10 9 months later Ken versus loan refers to the fact that people online are always comparing them and where they're at in their careers I always find people comparing their followers monthly listeners first week sales and other numbers measuring their popularity they don't like this at all and Loan even publicly displayed his for it during an interview Ken Carson is a man of many nicknames Ken is the obvious one but other names he's referred to himself as are X X-Man teen x teen bean and boy Barbie he's reference these nicknames many times throughout his songs you should [ __ ] with [Music] Ken read a lot of the X-Men comics and that's where he got the inspiration for the X and his nicknames he also covered this topic during his freestyle 2 genius video x to me means like just like a blank like it's me filling in a blank space like it's literally like a question mark just filling in so like x man I'm whatever man the s in Ken Carson's name used to be a dollar sign up until July 2nd 2022 his name with the dollar sign can still be found in some places like on his old music videos top floor boss is one of Lan's few nicknames he calls himself this name in many of his songs even having a whole song titled top floor [Music] boss I'm the top player I'm the top floor boss told top floor boss is also Lan's Tumblr name opium unor o opium is the name of card's alt Instagram account here he posts a lot more frequently than his main insta account normally posting about his concerts and merchandise this is also the account he initially revealed his narcissist clothing line on Cardi's alt IG handle used to be opium opium moo for some reason a lot of fans make fun of Ken Carson for his smile he used to smile a lot like in his music videos but he can now be found smiling less and even covering his smile potentially due to the bullying that's my bike Punk that [ __ ] too funny bro another unfortunate Trend in the Opium fan base is to call destroy lonely ugly people even made posts naming all the Opium members allegations then just saying lone is ugly as his allegation another thing people people say to insult Ken Carson is that he looks old people even made edits with filters making him look much older than he actually is yeah sh the camera the girl man look at the sun look at crazy crazy I just went crazy but like something that was actually funny about this is that before Ken Carson was really popular if you Googled Ken Carson age it would tell you that he was 79 years old during a 2021 interview with montreality Ken gave his opinion on people who judge others and it became a meme because of the way he said judger judging anybody or some [ __ ] bro that [ __ ] is annoying I hate when people come around judging it's a big turn off don't be a judger bro don't be a judger let God leave it up to God to judge a [ __ ] every member of opium is known for rocking all black outfits what's your favorite part about dressing up in where I so what y'all just all buy the most expensive black clothing in the market every time I ain't going to lie me yeah that's kind of go to any of their concerts too and you'll see a sea of black with all their fans adapting the fashion trend of their favorite artists OPI members also rap about wearing all black especially loone [Music] [Music] upside down crosses are another Staple in opium style the upside down cross is an ancient symbol associated with the martyrdom of St Peter but it could also be taken as an anti-christian or satanic symbol card is two upside down crosses tatted on the front of his shoulders as well as one beside his ear he's also been seen wearing them as earrings Ken Carson had merch all themed around the upside down cross lone even got one cut into his hair opium members also sometimes show upside down crosses behind them on screen during concerts they also rap about them in their [Music] [Music] songs the Opium chain is a diamond filled chain with a diamond upside down cross pendant it's given to the members and Affiliates of opium it can also be seen on the cover of Cardi's whole lot of red as well as Ken's lost Files 4 ice boox is an Atlanta based family-owned jewelry store located in Buckhead that many popular artists shop at Ken and Loan made their first appearance there in May 2022 alongside Yeet and September's Rich they then got their own video at the store in January 2023 where they bought multiple white diamond chains and tennis bracelets the cover of Ken Carson's Project X album was inspired by a 2012 film of the same name the film Project X was about three friends who attempted to gain popularity by throwing an out ofc control party partying is also the theme Ken had for this album there's actually a scrap cover to Ken's album that resembled the original film's poster even closer the Opium symbol is simply just an asteris the label opium's name is commonly styled with the Opium asterisk under the U which was inspired by the logo of fashion label K de garon the symbol is likely meant to be a simplified version of the top of a real Opium poppy Ken has shown his love for this symbol like on the scrap Project X cover I showed moments ago and he went as far as getting the symbol tatted on his neck as opium became a big name in the music industry a bunch of memes spawned around the label the most common meme is people seeing something with the black or goth aesthetic and saying it's so [Music] opium oh my God that is so opium opium another thing people like to add is saying someone thinks they're destroyed [Music] lonely sorry about all that um I'd like to recommend the burger of the day the If Looks Could kale Burger cardi Lan and Ken have all done modeling for Brands before Cardi's model for Louis Vuitton at Paris Fashion Week yay Yeezy season 5 v files Drake's oio lookbook Javan and different magazine Publications as well Lan has done modeling for voyage La magazine elak whatever brand this is and Brotherly Love Ken also model for brotherly love as well as Marvin [Music] magazine Gunner stall is a professional photographer from Atlanta Georgia he's worked with many famous musicians including opium members cardi lone and Ken he's done a lot of work with cardi and he even shot his iconic self-titled mixtape cover as well as Ken's Project X cover Gunner was also an opium chain for his work with the group Playboy cardi is known for using different intros to his songs during his concerts that aren't in the actual songs after a while Ken loan and homicide gang all picked up on this trend and now do the same thing here's a quick example [Music] when I say go go is an iconic line that Ken has spit on multiple occasions before performing his song go when I say go go when I say go go let [Music] go on September 24th 2022 cardi went into his own Mosh Pit during his rolling loud New York performance and was caught [Music] crying I'm in this bed with destroyed lonely is a misheard lyric from Ken's song I Need You where he's actually saying something else in July 2021 a Tik tocker made a skit with his mom about the Ken Carson and K can beef there was one specific line that stood out to Ken no he ain't he's not even teenx [ __ ] him Ken is used this line as a sample in a few of his songs now such as MDMA intro delinquent gems and South Beach he's not even [Music] teenx on November 11th 2023 homicide gang and Summers were set to perform at box Fest in New York alongside other acts while homicide gang was doing their performance Sumer came on stage and punched Mei Summers was then immediately jumped by homicide gang and the people with them the reason Summers punched Mei in the first place was allegedly because homicide dissed him while he was backstage after the scuffle Summers was caught on camera looking beat with dreads missing from his head all of Summers jewelry was also taken during the brawl later on Summers posted a video dissing the people who jumped him saying they needed 30 people and still barely hurt him I'm Bea a out one of you [ __ ] in 2030 y [ __ ] come jump on [ __ ] [ __ ] I'm so [ __ ] Y how the Y Ain got a [ __ ] eye closed or nothing man it's 30 y'all [ __ ] what the is y'all doing y [ __ ] hit like hoes man homicide later went on to get the diamonds on Summer's jewelry tested try to fight one no why you say no I want to see can I want you to test the diamonds I want to see so the diamond is real diamond is real okay boo so what wrong with it it's fake it's like it's 5050 but the the watch is not real the diamond is real oh he crazy he is nard war is a Canadian celebrity journalist and musician known for his energetic interviews with popular musicians in late June 2023 he attempted to interview cardi but cardi did not entertain it can I give something to play by cardi a gift nobody's leaving how can it be one second a couple weeks later nard War dropped an interview with Jazzy where he was asked out of anyone who he'd want to interview and cardi was one of his answers if you could interview only three people you haven't interviewed yet who would you interview well I really would like to talk to Barack Obama Paul McCartney all right Playboy cardi okay destroy lonely song how you feel was on the soundtrack for the 2023 movie Insidious the red door and was played during a scene in the movie when to see Insidious just a destroy lonely was not disappointed every time I look at your eyes I Look Away Eyes on March 16th 2023 a random Twitter user made a tweet that read if destroy L made a song with pink pantheris I would literally scream like I know it's a weird mix but I feel like it'd be fire pink pantheris replied to this tweet almost four months later stating your wish my command 14th July before the song was released though two songs with Pink Panthers and lone leaked bury me and turn your phone off turn your phone off is the one that saw an eventure release on July 14th 2023 when Ken makes post online including text he likes to add something to make his text different and stand out one thing he did a lot was underscores instead of spaces in his sentences now he's been seen using cursive fonts as well as more Gothic ones like this during the roll out for the antagonist tour the official opium logo was revealed this is a better picture of how it looks cardi even got this logo tatted fold is a Ken song that can be credited as the song that started gaining him real traction as an artist it was released on July 3rd 2018 and got a lot of traction online compared to any of his previous work it even led to him getting interviewed for the first time on December 6th 2018 fold is also the oldest song available on Ken's Spotify profile boy Barbie is Ken Carson's debut record release which originally was a two track EP with both songs featuring Lancy foe the name is to play on his stage Nam Ken Carson because that's also the name of the male Barbie dog how did you uh get your name and everything Ken Carson my name Ken the Barbie dog Ken Carson Barbie uh boyfriend PJ got a hard lifestyle first mention of the Project's release dates back to August 27th 2016 where he tweeted that the project was due to release on September 16th 2016 Ken finally touched back on the project on November 10th 2018 on Twitter where he stated that the project was ready to release in January once January passed and it was February 2019 Ken Finally Revealed the official cover art and 10 song track list also announcing a March release date it wasn't until April of 2020 that boy Barbie was finally uploaded on Soundcloud almost 4 years after its initial announcement it also only contains six songs even though the track list he teased had 10 on May 24th 2020 the project officially reached other streaming services lost files are a series of compilations posted exclusively to SoundCloud consisting of Ken's throwaways that didn't make any of his released projects there are four in total with the first being released on January 20th 2021 and the last being released on January 3rd 2023 Ken sometimes officially releases songs from these compilations if they gain enough traction for example teen bean and Murder music were both on Lost files compilations before getting official releases loan tends to post and make references to Asian girls in his music a lot more than the average rapper he used to do it a lot more frequently as well Korean women would be a staple within loan's image often featuring Korean women in his profile pictures and song covers destroy lonely's father is the rapper I20 who was signed to ludicrous is label disturbing the pieace the song he was most popular for was the ludicrous song moveit that he was featured on OG Volta are an American record production and songwriting Duo composed of Mark Williams and R kubina they've done production and co-writing for big artists like Kanye West Playboy cardi XXX Tason Lil NS X and Justin Bieber among others some cardi songs they help produce are off the grid Junior and on that time OG is also card's guitarist during his concerts who was frequently attacked by cardi [Music] himself Joy Division is a photographer videographer and clothing designer who's good friends with cardi he acts as a sort of creative consultant for opium he was given an opium chain and even has a huge opium tattoo on his arm as well as opium symbol on his wrists out of town and Starboy are frequently collaborating record producers from the Netherlands who in 2019 founded and curated the production group hyperpop based in Tokyo Japan in 2022 however the two abandoned the group and formed their new Collective adrenaline they're both known for their work with opium artists frequently collaborating with cardi and Ken and occasionally with lone and homicide gang art dealer is a record producer designer and editor from South Korea who is known known for his major role in card's career he's been card's creative director ever since the release of his debut mixtape designing a majority of his visuals and merchandise he produced seven songs on whole lot of red and has other production work with cardi as well as some with homicide gang and Ken he's a member of card's opium label and got this tattoo to let everyone know Cleo is a record producer from Atlanta Georgia known for his production on Destroy lonely songs in 2020 Cleo founded and created his production group underworld online when looking at his production discography it's almost entirely destroyed lonely and some of lon's most popular songs were produced by him including if looks could kill and never ever Reggie Carter is Playboy card's brother making him opium by Blood cardi shouted him out in his music like on the song Die forg [Music] guot Mia Owens is Ken Carson's ex-girlfriend they were seen together for a while until Ken made a series of tweets on his alt Twitter in March of 2023 insinuating that he was now single Ken made songs that are rumored to be about her such as Aquafina and I need you Mia also uploaded a video on YouTube titled this was 18 on May 10th 2023 showing a bunch of different clips of her and Ken now I got a lip gloss on [Music] exactly really though it shows in this camera but in real life it doesn't look as what the [ __ ] Ken is now with Tik Tok influencer Tina tonin who is also his Instagram profile picture homicide is an actual gang in Atlanta not just including bino and Mei some other notable names affiliated with homicide are Problem Child 5 R5 homicide the Blessed demon homicide fat homicide W the real wild child five big aeli Lil uny Migo blph homicide young homicide Molly homicide blizzy Jade Shepard 5 homicide Osama and Lil 1 DT cardi has mentioned a lot of them in his lyrics and even made a song with Lil one DTE titled homicide many artists want to join the Opium label due to the popularity that comes with it but there are actually some people that cardi wanted to sign but failed to he touched on this in his song Punk monk where he wrapped about trying to sign trippy red low keed and Pierre Bourne but failing in July of 20123 it came out that cardi reportedly makes anyone who meets him sign a non-disclosure agreement this information came from from a DM with a dancer from his wireless Festival performance they said quote we all had to sign ndas in early 2022 cardi posted a message between he and Kanye where yay said let's go on tour the tour was set to be called introvert and feature L vert alongside yay and cardi the tour is to last 20 to 25 weeks Don's place also made a whole poster marketing strategy concept for this tour which unfortunately never ended up happening not only were Kanye and cardi planning to go on tour they were planning on releasing an entire album together for the tour the album was rumored to be titled Pablo narcissist and sound very experimental with heavy Rock elements it was rumored to release sometime in 2022 but unfortunately never did Ken Carson is not only a recording artist as he also does production work as well he was one of the producers for cardi song bino and also produced for Lil Uzi song X2 thank you so much K Carson 1 2 3 wow wow in a July 2023 interview with montreality Lil U praised Ken and loone for dressing better than them and said that they've been teaching them what to do they dress better than me and it's okay but all I got they they and know crazy they superpower a little bit better than mine because they real ass [ __ ] and they dress better than me they actually be teaching me what to do during the second week of August 2023 someone in the group text told Uzi to put it on destroy lonely's life that they dro the next Friday the next Friday was the 18th and on that day Uzi did not drop their anticipated barter 16 album but they did drop a single and four remixes with Nicki Minaj since Uzi didn't specify what they were going to drop they technically didn't lie and that is the reason destroyed lonely is still alive today in March of 2023 over 2 hours of a Playboy cardi documentary or Vlog Style video was leaked before then only small Snippets of it had surfaced online the footage in the the video was recorded before the release of his album whole lot of red primarily in the album's V2 era as it can be heard recording with his extremely high-pitched baby [Music] voice Beat Rats the documentary shows cardi recording music posing for photo shoots and playing different songs from that era most of which are still unreleased [Music] there's even Parts in the doc where cardi seems to be shooting an unreleased music video to his song over around the same time of the cardi documentary leak the songs made it this far money and drugs and friends all leaked it turns out that they were all leaked by the same person and this person was caught while he was getting arrested he recorded a video of himself listening to one of the songs he leaked I [Music] believe this is the mug shot that came from the arrest he also was apparently bailed out for 25,000 shortly after his arrest Ken Carson was arrested on August 19th 2021 for an alleged domestic violence battery this is the mug shot that was taken it's currently used as the main picture on Ken's Wikipedia page Ken Carson has had many different hairstyles in the past few years so I'll just go over all of them briefly from 2016 to July 2020 Ken had normal black hair from August to December 2020 he rocked short blonde dreads from January to July 2021 he had white dreads from July to August 2021 Ken had purple dreads Ken went back to White dreads from August 2021 to February 2022 Ken then died half his hair black and had half white half black dreads from March 2022 to January 2023 Ken once again went back to White dreads for February 2023 then from February to March 2023 he rocked dreads with white roots and black tips in March 2023 he had white roots with pink tips from April to July 2023 he had black roots with blonde tips after this he went back to mostly black dreads with a patch of blonde and then to mostly black dreads with a patch of Gray he's also shortly rocked purple and blonde hair blue and blonde hair and black and green hair starting in 2020 people started to notice cardi scalp becoming more visible people really started noticing in 2022 when it began to look like cardi was balding he also started wearing do-rags frequently at this time to cover up his scalp by some miracle though it looks like his hair has made a recovery starting in 2022 some Ken fans started to point out that he looks like he'd gained some weight this only got worse over time and people started to take to the comment sections of videos with Ken and them to make fun of his weight gain people pointed out that Ken probably got a lean gut which is actually something cardi wrapped about in the song he named after Ken Ken Carson turned down being on the 2022 XXL freshman list because they didn't add destroy lonely to the list on May 12th 2023 destoy Lon did a collaboration with Roblox where he was to perform a digital concert the concert didn't go smoothly however and after about 10 minutes in Lan walked off stage due to his audio from Discord not working well his look killer mask was also added into the game sometime in 2020 Ken linked up with controversial YouTuber James Charles Lo yotti and other social media influencers were there as well James Charles was singing black Pink songs to them here we come K the do lone was friends with the rapper dwop Kane before he blew up and signed to Opium their most iconic sighting together is on the cover of duop Kane song geeked out my body in late 2021 DC posted an old video he took of loone saying that he misses him this [ __ ] recording a video in the [Music] bathroom for some reason it became a trend for people to throw things at Ken and Loan during their [Music] concerts please do not throw that on stage please please just out bro that [ __ ] series man yeah I got to stop thr [ __ ] up stage this [ __ ] throws another phone on the stage please stop stage [Music] [Applause] I saw people like throwing things on stage you deal with that a lot hell yeah [ __ ] throw some [ __ ] on stage every night a [ __ ] hit me with some [ __ ] in my knee and I don't like getting hit with nothing so I had to let [ __ ] know stop throwing [ __ ] at me or on the stage for a second please so I could perform because like I'm still like an artist and you can watch me perform like just sound like you can like [ __ ] can do whatever they want in my show but like just respect me at least [Music] in late 2022 footage from an unreleased cardi music video from 2019 leaked online welcome back everybody V1 0018 well here they are we have one of the new era rock stars Mr Playboy the video was supposed to reference an appearance Marilyn Manson made on the Phil Donahue show back in 1995 where they debated about the effects of rock music on the youth don't give a about no kid himself to my music if you're that stupid to K yourself over some music then that's your fault as cardi grew in popularity people started to dress as him for Halloween even some celebrities did this as well the actor miles Brown wore the same makeup and outfits as cardi and even copied some of the exact poses cardi had done former NBA player Brandon Jennings also dressed up as cardi for Halloween and cardi even responded to it in a DM calling him a legend on the court Jaden Smith is another celebrity who dressed his cardi for Halloween Ken Carson is noted that his biggest influences are Lil Wayne Soulja Boy and future you can hear how future influenced Ken a lot in his newer music destroy lonely sighted his influences being rock bands such as Crystal Castles de tones and the Cure as well as rappers such as Lil Wayne Drake future Young Thug and Playboy cardi Ken Carson's favorite rap album of all time may not surprise you what's your favorite rap album of all time of all time no bull like like no hold unlike Ken Lan actually prefers card's diit album over whole lot of red which album are you taking diit or whole lot of red it's crazy cuz we don't had this conversation I stand on D me too like okay but whole l r is a very great album it's not ass or nothing I'm not saying nothing like that but my personal favorite album is Diet you can tell from their sounds that Lan is more influenced by diet and Ken was more influenced by a whole lot of red during an interview in late 2022 Lan announced that after his If Looks Could Kill album he'd be dropping a project with Ken room I'm working on my next album that [ __ ] called luy kill them I'm F Dro project with marwin K cars the two have already collaborated many times and there's also Snippets that have surfaced of the two together that could potentially be on the project there's no confirmed date track list or name for the project yet but a rumored name people have given it is opium twins in July 2023 cardi did his first on camera interview in years being asked his outfit price by Chris too smooth tell how much to do how much the doag hey for the do I see the chain how the chain a lot a lot for the chain how much for the ear how much for the ears a lot for the okay I see the biss how much for the biss my boy op oh oh op oh how much the op no prices for no prices okay I see the ball how for the ball uh [ __ ] one1 one1 okay I see the shorts how much for the shorts one one one one for the short okay I see the kicks my how for the kicks one1 one one my boy C got it going crazy Ken Carson was also interviewed by Chris to smoo about his outfit price earlier in 2023 was iy Hood shirt sht I watch the watch hey that's good man that's the watch in the bra [Music] [Music] bra all you guys got to go loan has also been fit checked but not by Chris too smooth here's one from mid 2022 how much does your Fit cost I don't know probably like a couple thousand I don't really paying attention I just got these shorts this morning they hard these was like 600 my je was like 15 Rick on shirt couple hundred then I had on the Baga jacket that was like 2000 Ken posted a picture of a man with a full black sleeve to his Instagram story saying that this was his first tattoo as a tattoo artist and asking who wants one next in mid 2023 the tattoo page of rapis posted an Instagram story showing cardi actually giving someone a tattoo here's another photo of cardi giving a tattoo people have been calling cardi demonic for a while now because of his aesthetic like showing off pentagrams and upside down crosses this came to a whole new level in 2022 when cardi showed off a new neck tattoo that says the word Satan when Lan was in high school he was abusing the drugs xandx he eventually realized that his substance abuse was destroying him and that became the origin of the destroy part of his stage name in school Lan felt out of place and like he had no friends making him feel alone that's where the lonely part of a stage name originated I got my name destroy lonely from like pretty much when I was younger I was doing like kind of like drugs and [ __ ] and I felt like that was bad for me and I felt like I would in a sense like destroy myself and around the same time I was also spending a lot of time by myself so that's where I got the name lonely from I kind of like gave it to myself and like just from like being by myself and I mixed the destroy and lonely from both of those situations I got the name from that destroyed lonely is a fan of Korean popular music lone has been spotted attending a concert of the K-Pop group black pink Lan is often seen with a profile picture of the group's main vocalist Ros and has shown his support towards the group many times for example he once tweeted a picture of the member Lisa in a vmont coat that he also owns captioning it with a heart lone even name dropped black pink in a song in June 2023 video leaked showing behind the scenes footage of the making of Kanye's album da cardi was featured throughout the leaks as he was featured on the album multiple times [Music] there was even a part in the leaks where Kanye got mad and yelled at cardi and others a game man it's like 8 hours left to this no chuckling and nothing and nothing no kind of way all right play off the GD a picture of a group text leaked between Kanye Kim Kardashian and others in the text Kanye noted that he was adding Lancy fo to the chat stating that he had the best eye besides cardi or Rick Owens himself the model for card's narcissist clothing line is named Brooks jinen they suffer from ectodermal dysplasia a genetic disorder that causes abnormal tissue growth they credited modeling as the thing that helped them embrace the rare condition in January 2023 post Malone dropped a merch that looked almost exactly like the merch kenned made for his teenx album Ken responded to this on Twitter calling it ass during a rolling loud performance in July 2023 cardi made a statement about liars and if anyone should know about liars it's him just liars everybody's in August 2023 Someone caught loan at ATI en's in a mall loan gave the person who took a pick of him the deadliest side eye in July 2021 Ken's Apple music profile was hacked and they changed his profile picture to a funny pick of him when asked about it in a DM Ken said that he hated his fans for doing this KP beats is a record producer best known for his work with Playboy cardi he's actually done production work for all of opium cardi Ken loone in homicide gang he himself is a member of opium and he has the chain to prove it as well Lil 888 is a record producer from Atlanta Georgia he's part of the production groups 808 Mafia and crash dummy and his uncle is big-time producer tm88 he's known for frequently collaborating with Ken Carson but has also worked with cardi loone and homicide gang low 88 is the biggest reason Ken had so many Connections in the music industry at such a young age in 2013 when Ken was entering 8th grade began to experiment with making music he soon met a very young producer at his school who we now know as Lil 88 the two got close to one another and Lil 88 revealed his connection to tm88 to Ken Ken played some of his own beats for tm88 and tm88 was impressed this led to tm88 introducing Ken to the massive producer Southside these new connections are what led to Ken meeting cardi later on down the road Ken also credited tm88 and Southside for inspiring him to get into rap fast forward to current day and now besides just producing for Ken Lil 88 is also Ken's DJ he also got called out in August 2023 for allegedly scamming someone for $3,300 and there are apparently others who have had similar experiences with him as well because of his ties with Lil 88 and other 808 mafia members Ken Carson actually joined 808 Mafia in 2015 he joined as a rapper and the group did production work for his songs he's no longer a part of the group gold medal is Ken Carson's first song to get a music video and is the oldest video currently up on his YouTube channel this song is released on April 30th 2020 and features opium Affiliates Lil uny and international he it was also produced by Lil 88 the music video to the song opens up with the Opium logo and the description says Apes on opium this would later be the title of Lil eny's 2021 album but he's no longer a member of the Opium label Rockstar Trapper originally titled Rockstar trapping is the first song officially released by homicide gang it was released on April 24th 2021 and served as the lead single for the release of the snotty World EP on Spotify it's also the group's first music video and first video up on their YouTube channel dark lord is one of destroyed lonely's nicknames in fiction and mythology a dark lord is an antagonistic archetype acting as the Pinnacle of villainy and Evil Within A typically heroic narrative Lan uses this nickname to allude to his dark avanguard Persona an alternative fashion style lone has called himself dark lord since 2021 on his pre- breakout single cult he highlighted the nickname's fashion based origin he's also called himself dark lord in other songs as well loan even dropped an EP titled Lord in 20120 loan also has Lord on his SoundCloud profile his ice box case and tattooed on his neck I just believe in that Lord though that's me I'm the Lord of this [ __ ] I Ru this [ __ ] world dark lord vault is also the name of an Instagram page that Ed loon's Evolution as an artist and also the name of a loan archiv Spotify account Darkhorse is the name of destroy lon's first solo project it contains eight songs and was released on March 12th 2019 the most popular song from the project by far is VVS Valentine which has over eight times the amount of streams as the next most streamed song on Spotify bam is the name of Playboy card's dog whom he drips out in Chrome Hearts man sit down you listen good boy mhm yeah yeah yeah cardian IG aelia actually made an Instagram account for bam called bam the punk which is s on private Ultra is the name of destroyed Lon pet cat your cat black dud yes of course I got a black cat and her name is ultra and I love her so much yo lone named the deluxe version of his no stylist album after his cat being titled NS plus Ultra lone has a lot of pictures online with ultra and even posts Ultra updates on his Tumblr in a May 2023 complex interview Ken revealed that he has a fear of cats I'm scared of cats cuz my boy got a cat and the cat swung on me I never seen a pet like physically trying to like throw a punch ever if you doing that so I I was a during an interview when asked about his religious stance Lan replied saying he's a spiritual person what's your religious stance buddy I'm a spiritual person yeah in the simplest terms I believe that it's something that's helping all of us and that's about it I don't know who it is but [ __ ] I just believe in that for some reason the ax deodorant brand frequently shows love to Playboy CI on social media sites like Twitter they've been seen replying to numerous cardi posts showing their support for cardi they even made cardio mock of his own ax deodorant spray these are three things that make Ken Carson smile can you name me three things that make you smile push push push money in a clip from his leaked documentary cardi said ooo which is an emoticon that represents a cute face just shot video this [ __ ] hey talk about man huh yo Pierre you want to come out here on March 14th 2021 someone on Twitter asked Ken if he'd ever want to be on a Pierre beat which Ken responded to saying nope someone else replied to this saying rare Ken Carson L and this prompted Ken to explain why he said nope Ken stated that Pierre told him that he wasn't on the same level as him and that made Ken not feel comfortable working with him on July 7th 2021 Ken Carson made a post to his Instagram promoting the music video to his song Butterfly someone commented on the post tagging Ken can and Ken responded to this by saying don't add no biting ass rappers under my [ __ ] Ken Ken responded to this in an IG live saying [Music] this I got my own way ass [ __ ] take over this music sh right now a few days later Ken went on IG recording at a studio and Ken commented on the live asking what studio he's at not much happened for a while but things seem to pick back up in August 2022 after Summers posted a picture showing underground artists on demand audio streams the list showed himself ranked at number five with Ken below him at number seven shortly after this post Ken went on a tweeting frenzy seemingly all dissing Summers for the posts he had made Summers then claimed Ken wasn't talking about him by posting a DM of he and Ken where Ken told him to tell Ken Ken to shoot a fate around 3 weeks after this situation Ken Ken dropped a diss track on Ken titled post your shows gang LOL a title mimicking one of the tweets Ken made a few weeks prior he then changed the song's name to post your racks gang LOL all of this drama is actually what spawned the video that resulted in the iconic he's not even Teen X tag that Ken would use hey Noah you heard that can versus Ken beef yo mom like no [ __ ] though but K Ken literally wipes the floor with Ken Carson no he ain't he's not even teenx [ __ ] [Music] him in late 2022 Rich the kid posted a few pictures to Instagram wearing the same black [ __ ] jacket that Ken was known for rocking at the time this caused a lot of people to comment on the post saying he is not Ken Carson basically calling him out for copying Ken Rich the kid responded to one person's Story by saying who TF is Ken Carson after seeing this Ken responded with a few tweets seemingly calling out Rich the kid for copying his swag he even posted a screenshot showing Rich the kid trying to DM him on Instagram meaning Rich the kid did indeed know who Ken [Music] was on December 12th 2020 Mario Judah dropped a four song EP titled whole lot of red the joke was that he was dropping a whole lot of red because cardi hadn't yet and every song was just Mario Judah trying to sound like cardi while hardly saying any real words Ken's respons to this was a simple tweet saying Mario Judah the first bit of drama between Ken and DJ academics came on December 26th 2020 when Ken made a tweet saying this [ __ ] academic's dumb ASF it's unclear exactly where this was coming from but it could have been relating to his inclusion on cardi song control which had released only a day prior to this tweet around 7 months later academics went on a rant about Ken after someone brought up his name the facts Ken is hard as [ __ ] I don't know I I can cover who the is Ken you telling me about what's this thing his name Ken Ken or whatever the Barbie and Ken he don't got a song on the billboard the do I care about his music get a hit get a hit I don't give a about you oh I'm bubbling my city cute he then gave Ken a chance and listened to his song high as [ __ ] and this was his reaction Carson is signed to playboard cardi I don't give who he signed to your rapper whack artist all the time okay let me just be be very clear and honest from what I heard in those in that s it feels like he's a clone of a playboard card or something like that that's cool because truth be told like right now the industry is so wild um what's the end game with that I don't get it can the went on a Twitter tie raid going in on academics calling him all sorts of things during one of starbys IG lives Ken could be seen in the comments section roasting him for getting no women on January 16th 2023 trippy red posted the track list to his upcoming album Mansion music something to note is that almost every single song had a feature on it including some big names like Travis Scott Future Lil Baby and Juice world shortly after the album's tracklist announcement Ken took to Twitter and said [ __ ] will feature Jesus himself and nobody will listen to that most people made the fair assumption that he was referring to Trippy because he had literally just shown off a track list with a boatload of features Ken DM trippy afterward though clarifying that he wasn't aiming the disc toward him and that he's real enough to at anybody but the thing about that statement is Ken actually didn't add anybody in the disc he made another similar thing happened with cardi in August 2023 when he liked a tweet that made fun of trippy red selling 30 ,000 copies with his latest album cardi quickly unliked the Tweet Ken made a private Instagram account with the name a great chaos to share things about his upcoming album with the same name the account only allows fan pages and producers working on the album to follow it some of the images on the account were revealed to the public and some people were appalled by the grotesque imagery the photos depicted the rapper Polo G even jumped in on the action liking the Tweet of someone who said rappers now focus more on aestic than making good music I unded refers to a cardi quote from an April 2022 interview with XXL after talking about how his friends see him cardi was asked the question did you have to grow into a place to be comfortable with that side of you cardi responded by saying I wouldn't give a because it's like I love everybody I don't judge nobody I have gay friends I have trans friends you know what I'm saying I'd undated the quote cut off after I'd undated and that left fans speculating exactly what he was referring BR to dating in an October 2021 interview with montreality Ken was asked what's a trend that he hopes never comes back and he said this what [ __ ] had on foot skit ball jerseys or some [ __ ] that [ __ ] Jo but head on a FK ball Jersy that [ __ ] is so funny to me bro that's the weakest [ __ ] ever br it's nobody in life that play foot sketball that's dead ass of foot sketball Jersey bro don't ever have one of them [ __ ] on bro a foot skall one year later he did another interview with montreality and this time they gave him a football game to try out what is that football what the wait hold oh I got to leave bro I gota leave well I try to shoot that [ __ ] don't work bro that [ __ ] ain't going to never work you know you can't leave the G without I make shot I make shot it's over with one shot and we out bro who the made this game but oo oh I'm in the cardi documentary that leaked there's a clip where cardi cancels ice cream no ice cream ice cream what you say again don't eat ice cream eat ice cream in this I OV my gu bro like No Cap like eat ice cream bro in front of me bro try anything El try me in 2020 2 cardi partnered with Thomas ashborne to create his own alcohol cocktail called the hard Scotto his drink was described as white wine inspired craft cocktail reminiscent of Mo Scot Blanc grapes and featuring Aromas of peach apricot and delicate elder flower cardi even shot a whole video for the drink featuring other members of opium B Dragon trash I see about the good stuff today uhhuh P this what is this why hi scato in mid 2023 cardi sent a message to DJ academics warning him that there may be fake pictures of him coming out soon this came shortly after someone allegedly leaked his feet pics less than two weeks after cardi warned academics about the fake pictures images were posted online of a person looking extremely similar to cardi even copying his signature birth mark in January 202 2 Playboy card's own Action Figure Set was revealed they showed him with his different hairstyles different outfits and different chains as well these action figures turned out to be manufacturer exclusive meaning they weren't available to the general public in February 2022 a fan gifted Ken a Spider-Man backpack during one of his shows he actually put the backpack on and continued performing with it Matthew Williams even posted a picture on Instagram with Ken wearing the backpack the Naruto run is a unique running style Naruto uses in his anime series where he's depicted sprinting with his arm stretched behind him cardi did the same run during a performance in March [Music] 2023 during a performance in 2022 cardi did A Dance known as the gritty there's an old video of Ken Carson where where he was playing basketball in a pair of Rick Owen shoes Okay Okay said let me [Music] shoot oh yeah you got one more he said come here he also used the hard R in the same clip he's calling it there's a clip of Ken Carson bowling with Lil Uzi vert that boy got destruction oh God in 2021 Ken previewed a snippet of a song with he and offset an Instagram page posted the snippet and offset left a comment on the post saying don't know dude Ken Carson and Destroy lonely have both made their own songs sampling Playboy cardi songs Ken's 2021 song Glock 19 samples card's popular unreleased snippet called pop our [Music] pills lon's 2019 song Molly World samples cardi song Let It Go lit bro Ying [Music] Gabe is a music producer rapper singer songwriter and video director from Los Angeles California along with his own solo career he is also known for his work with artists like Playboy cardi and Lil Peep and is seen as a Pioneer in the genre of emo rap or emo trap he was a member of the rap Duo Uzi with Mike who specializes in visuals for music videos gab's most notable music video visuals are for Kanye West's famous and Drake's 2016 song sneaking Gabe is the head and founder of the record label OMG dudee in 2020 Gabe received his first major placement as a producer on the Playboy cardi track metamorphosis along with filthy he further co-produced multiple tracks on Ken Carson's X Album in 2022 as well as gun and put them on by homicide gang in the same year gab signed to the Opium label and he has the chain to prove it Mitch modes is a fashion designer and celebrity stylist best known for collaborating with the weekend and Playboy cardi cardi reached out to him shortly after dropping a whole lot of red inviting him to be in a show the show was card's 2021 cyber world performance and Mitch did end up making it and he's been close with cardi ever since Mitch recently acted in the weekend's TV show the idol and also did a shoot with Supreme wearing a tea of young boy with an opium chain on black Hayne is an experimental musician rapper and choreographer when he was young he began to explore contemporary dance while taking interest in experimental music developing an abrasive style of dance that would often leave him bloody and bruised after starring in several music videos he subsequently began independently producing music he's now often seen with cardi being a backup dancer during his performances he's also done choreography for cardi and Kanye even hired him to choreograph the dond two listening party there's an old clip of Burberry Ary on the news where he was reunited with his lost dogs some people found their pets today Eric ARA was reunited with Louie this morning oh my God I I don't even know to say like I'm like I'm lost of words and moments later he found his other dog who also ran away during the fireworks so you two for two Eric yeah I'm two for two during a late 2022 interview for the who's house podcast loan stated that he hated his song Bane Bane Bane Bane I hate Bane to death that's one I genuinely do not like that song I made a song out 17 years old but I appreciate that [ __ ] but I hate I don't like I don't like that style of me music I don't like people blowing [ __ ] up hell no I don't believe in it in the same interview as the previous Bane clip lone expressed his hate for Tik Tok even though it helped to blow him up Tik Tok was running your Bane song like no Tik Tok good stop man they blew that [ __ ] like to the I do appere sometime in 2017 Ken Carson's girlfriend at the time deleted his sound Soundcloud account because he cheated on her this resulted in some of his earliest songs being lost on July 8th 2022 Cole Bennett teased a music video for a song off of Ken Carson's ex album he posted a text message Ken sent him saying pick a song Let's Go with the X Album above it unfortunately Cole and Ken never made a music video for any of the songs off of Ken's X Album destroy lonely has a music video to his song Lonely but never released it to the public all that be found online is a short snippet of the video which is playing on screen as I speak as well as a group of pictures taken from the video shoot loan is clarified many times that he does not have a stylist he even has an album titled no stylist as well as a song with the same name that's all about him not having a stylist when he dropped the music video to a song No stylist in August 2022 the description of the video showed credits for wardrobe and styling the people tagged in the description also took to Instagram to announce their styling of loan this was loan's response to the allegations of him having a stylist on God bro I'm telling the whole world this I'm looking at the camera when I'm saying this I I got no stylish I know it was a little discrepancy or whatever my video came out somebody put a little typ on them trying to act like they sty me ain't nobody ever styled me a day in my life I got receipts for everything I ever bought I show y'all my closet whatever I really do this this is me no stylist someone tried to clear this up by dming one of the alleged stylists and she said she did indeed St sty loan to wear a specific shirt an Italian rapper posted a group of messages between he and Ken Carson the messages show them both making fun of each other with Ken typing in his signature lowercase font on November 6 2023 at a l Uzi concert Ken got into an altercation with Cobb County Police [Music] during a performance in early 2023 someone threw their phone on stage while Ken was performing and Ken kicked it back into the [Music] [Applause] crowd Kenna's also been seen throwing a Fan's phone into a crowd as well as hitting the phone out of a Fan's hand before as [Music] well Ken Carson has been spotted many times using a big iPad to do things got IP [Music] IP unlike most other rappers destroyed lonely is very active on Tumblr he mainly posts unseen photos of himself and Snippets of unreleased songs he also posts videos from his concerts and pictures of his cat Ultra as well among various other things that go on in his life when destroy lonely first previewed his song Bane in 2019 he only had four viewers watching on IG live I made a whole new song in late 2019 one of card's friends Jay dm' destroy lonely after hearing a snippet of his song oh yeah saying his music is hard a few weeks later he dm'd lone again this time letting him know that cardi likes his music shortly after Jay called loan and ended up giving the phone to cardi to talk to loan cardi told loone that he was coming to Atlanta to record and they ended up meeting at a studio cardi told loan that he wanted to sign him that first they met up Ken Carson stated in an interview that cardi told him that he wanted to sign him before hearing even three songs I'm not going to lie cardi told me he wanted to sign me before I was even like on my third song I played him like one song and like showed him my Instagram and he was like bro I want to sign you and I just like was around him ever sense in an interview homicide gang revealed that cardi said he wanted to sign them after hearing only one of their songs that being SSN getting into conversations about like signing and whatnot like how how did that even happen I'm sure you guys played him a bunch of music and like it took some time it wasn't just like right away right first song he heard it was right away it was right away first song you heard what was the song I'm so curious is say he thought it was L damn in a late 2022 interview with kids takeover homicide gang told the story of how they first met each other at a high school basketball game my ninth grade high school basketball game okay at the concession stand it's okay I was fat back then yeah you were not F I always at and I was with my girl best friend my cousin old girlfriend and then he pulled up on her he pulled in on her game I was like who this is she was like you know I was like you look familiar I said you look familiar too he said the same thing and I bet it was just like just Mutual just mutual respect ever since if you know if of at age 15 Ken Carson dropped out of public school to join military school he was required to attend the school for 6 months but he was kicked out after just three for using his phone to FaceTime I got Ked out of military school I got kied out of military school because uh I had my phone and you w supposed to have your phone in there uhhuh I had an iPhone and as just FaceTime face I had to get them like Ken's also mentioned attending military school in the song [Music] lyrics Lan used to play the violin piano and trumpet let's see something see that Ain bracking right now [Music] where I used to know how to play I can't play it no more though but this is funny as hell I used to play the violin the piano and the trumpet young opium is a reference to all the old pictures and videos of opium members that have surfaced showing them at a younger age [Music] cavities need to be filled teeth supposed be getting braces in July and all that good J uh during an interview Lan described himself as a nerd a lot of people don't know that about me like I'm I'm definitely thorough in everything that I'm on like me like I ain't telling no story or nothing but I'm 100% full nerd there's also this clip of some dude calling Ken and lone nerds like Ken Carson nerd destroy lonely nerd nerds have overtaken rap before Lan became a successful rapper he wanted to be a professional gamer playing games like OverWatch were you just streaming like video games or yeah I wanted to stream video games before I was rapping I always like I like at the same time I was like making music and [ __ ] but I was like [ __ ] I was just stream video games I had a whole little YouTube channel that I hope nobody ever finds ever in life but he even had an old Channel where he would stream himself playing games like OverWatch I can't do this by myself what a bad teammate you are this is why I don't mess with y'all I play by myself I'm dead now my butt sweat you can see the play it loan to this day says he still loves gaming more than fashion and rap I love video games 100% like that's I love that [ __ ] a little bit more than fashion and rap there's an old video of Lone that surfaced of him reciting an old iconic Playboy cardi spe [ __ ] get mad at me they could say I changed because I thought they was on the same [Applause] [ __ ] but they not some [ __ ] can say I changed on them because I thought they was on the same [ __ ] I was on but they not in a November 2022 interview for Rolling Stone lone made a statement saying he and cardi have made over 20 songs together as of now no collaboration of them together has been relased released Ken and homicide gang also allegedly have collaborations with cardi 2 that have yet to be released after cardi performed at rolling loud Miami 2023 he did an Afterparty performance where he locked Ken loan and others in the cage and performed on top of [Applause] [Music] them during his rolling loud Portugal 2023 performance cardi announced to the crowd that he threw up mid show I just I just threw up during Ken's 2023 rolling loud Portugal set he called out someone in the audience for having fake merch uh that's fake that mer right now fake sh Ken was doing an Instagram live previewing music in a car then set his phone down he quickly forgot where he put his phone and he was shown looking for it while he was still [Music] live Bo you a [ __ ] boy you not poing where's my phone at try [ __ ] but I don't know where to phone Ken Carson once went on a spree of prank texting other artists filthy was one of the victims of Ken's pranks the rapper Yeet was yet another victim of Ken's lone was too wise to be fooled by Ken's gag the artist Soo was not fooled by Ken at first but was tricked by Ken's second prank attempt the one chip challenge involves eating a single chip laced with Carolina Reaper and scorpion peppers in 2022 Ken paid a couple strange along with his producer Lil 888 to do the one chip challenge then posted it on his Snapchat yeah chip challenge time chip challenge man man it's a chip challenge yo let's go cash eat the chip eat the chip thing thing thing the money the money don't count you eat the whole thing whole entire chip that's hot so real Soldier SW everything I'm going I'm going in you a man she a girl say [ __ ] ain't nothing [ __ ] hey we going I got the hiccups going little tkey ass [ __ ] yeah swallow it swallow n n come here 15 minutes started [Applause] [Laughter] ripx I got it from you is a tweet Ken Carson made in June 2021 the X he was referring to is the rapper XXX Tason who passed away in 2018 Ken actually made this tweet on the same day X died June 18th the I got it from you part of Ken's tweet is likely him saying X inspired him or maybe Ken got his ex nickname from him Ken is giv X praise elsewhere too like in interviews to me X was like a big energy bro that's why I with him so much felt like he was like speaking for the Youth really bro wasn't like it was just he him getting love the most love he was getting the most hate super rebellious super energizing like man bro that [ __ ] is crazy how somebody could like just be here today go tomorrow RPS RP he also ranked one of his songs as a top five Mosh Pit anthem has also rocked hairstyles that mimic X's iconic half and half dreads boy Barbie Ken Carson is the handle of Ken's old Instagram account his first post on the account came on May 25th 2016 showing him at a party [ __ ] the page mostly consisted of different Ken fit picks there's a couple posts of him promoting his music there's pictures of him performing his first show there's Anthony Edwards and his last picture on the account was a fit pick on April 30th 2019 announcing new music during one of Lan's concerts a fan gave him a veton coat while he was playing his song named veton coat [Music] has my wallet has my wallet do you want your jacket back though yeah it has my wallet I know you want your wallet but do you want your C back yes please look give this [ __ ] back I a going to lie let me see this good girl bro I going to run up with free Dro is the first song posted to Ken Carson's current Soundcloud account that he made after his X deleted his old one the song is released on September 4th 2019 and features the rapper Reese lefair was produced by Mexico Dro who is also the person the song is named after destroyed lonely is a name lone used before slightly shortening it to destroy lonely you can still see the destroyed lonely name on some of lon's older songs like bag full of boof counted up and I remember nus is the name of a friend destroy lonely maid while he was still in school they met at an event in their city and almost a year later nus moved across the street from loan and transferred to the same school as soon as nus transferred to the same school as loone they began working on music nus had a studio at his house that was perfect for loan so loone would walk to his house every day to record their first collaboration released together was a song titled bag full of boo which released on December 14th 2017 this is currently the oldest song on Lone SoundCloud page and judging by the title he was going by the name Lonely at the time they even made a music video to this song one day they decided to take Aderall and stay up all night making songs they ended up completing an entire seven song project in that single night and later released it on February 4th 2018 under the name nus destroyed lone to this day still loves that project because it was a pivotal stamp and time for his career made the whole tape in one night put that [ __ ] up mhm I really love that project cuz it just like it's like a um it's a starting point it's a starting point it's a stamping time like I really love that [ __ ] so much destroy is the title of loan's first ever project released on August 9th 2017 the project contains seven songs none of which can be found on any of Lan's streaming service Pages the only place I could find it is under a SoundCloud users page named mg 0448 but they only have six of the seven songs The Missing song titled lies is still uploaded separately on the same person SoundCloud page destroy lonely archive was a Spotify account that would post a bunch of loans unreleased music the leaks got so bad to the point where the destroy lonely archive Spotify profile had more monthly listeners than loan's official destroy lonely profile during one of Ken's shows he got into a personal battle with the jeans he was wearing having to fix them a countless amount of times let's count how many times Ken Carson has to fix his stupid jeans no [Laughter] [Music] on August 21st 2021 Ken made a tweet saying that he's dropping Ken Carson the album unfortunately no album titled Ken Carson was ever released by Ken 32 is the title of Ken Carson's first song that he ever uploaded being posted on May 22nd 2016 surprisingly Ken's first song already landed him his first blog post being posted by a page called rap direct because Ken's X deleted his old Soundcloud account the song 32 is now lost Drexler is the oldest known destroyed lonely [Music] song it was uploaded by user on Soundcloud on June 18th 2016 Lan has really come a long way since making this song Capo DT also known as kaari is a rapper affiliated with card's opium label he has multiple songs with Ken as well as two with cardi that leaked and were never released he used to be seen hanging out with cardi and Ken a lot but not anymore it seems like cardi may have dropped him from opium International Hefe is a recording artist from East Atlanta Georgia he signed a duct tape entertainment and 800 BBS in 2018 and 2019 he signed to Cardi's opium he has two songs with Ken Gold Medal and chrome heart's jeans in interational he is no longer with opium Fritz Owens is an artist recording engineer and producer from Atlanta Georgia he's best known for his work with Playboy cardi and his affiliation with card's label opium he released his debut project as a solo artist blessed mess in 2022 he also has an opium chain opium baby is a close friend of cardi who acts as a sort of an anr or creative director for opium some even call him a co-founder of the Opium record label he played a huge role during the whole lot of read roll out and previews music from everybody in opium he was actually the first member of opium to discover destroy lonely when cardian opium baby got caught in Georgia with possession of illegal guns and drugs opium baby took all the serious charges so that cardi could continue working he also has an opium chain there's a video of Ken Carson Lil 88 and opium baby all fighting off security during a Playboy cardi performance [Music] on November 3rd 2023 German arts and culture magazine numero Berlin published an interview with Playboy cardi to give insight into the creative process behind the new album he's working on in the interview cardi stated I was recording in a cave for like 3 months and all the music that came out of that is just chaotic and crazy when looking at homicide gang members names and song titles you may notice a trend of them using the number five there is a deeper meaning behind this number the fives are the people Nation Alliance of gangs who use a five-pointed star as their primary symbol the people Nation includes many gangs affiliated with Bloods homicide gang and cardi have also referenced fives in their music H H5 is something you'll commonly hear in homicide gangs music they frequently spit bars about smoking H5 [Applause] sm5 this might have left you wondering what H5 is H5 is a combination of two Atlanta based blood gangs henchmen and 5l these gangs are the direct opposition to homicide gang and their Affiliates cardi can be heard dissing henchman gang 5l and its members on songs from whole lot of red like stop breathing smoking on the H got a [ __ ] Fri Ken's even joined in on dissing H5 one of homicide gang's most popular songs SSN shows them smoking H5 on the [Music] cover he's not even seen it in his 2021 interview with montreality Ken described the story of when he slapped one of his teachers at 10 years old oh I slapped my teacher when I was 10 I slapped my teaching when I was 10 that's probably the most exciting thing I did when I was 10 years old I was like like come here I got to tell you something smack I got in trouble for that I got a crazy whooping for that Ken has been notorious for a few years now for allegedly scamming people in the archive clothing Community if you look at his old Instagram account the comments are flooded with people calling him a scammer even after Ken grew popular there were still people calling him out for scamming this one well-known archive clothes seller leaked his conversation with Ken showing them agreeing on a $1,500 price for a chrome heart's belt But Ken says his cash app is over limit then stops responding to messages before Ken was really popular homicide bino was his manager Ken's Instagram bio used to say business and inquiries followed by Boo's email and Instagram handle for card's 26th birthday in 2022 Kenan loan went in and got cardi a gift which was an iced out mouth on the ring with fangs Die Hard Playboy cardi fans have done some insane detective work to find various locations that he's pictured himself in someone found the house cardi was in when he shot this video on the real estate site Zillow someone used this picture of cardi and found the toilet from that same bathroom someone found the exact room and bathrobe cardi was wearing in this picture of him giving a tattoo someone found the same piano cardi was at when he took this video with Onyx someone found the lrat cardi was at during his leak documentary people even found multiple of the locations of card's antagonist tour teaser videos Ken has Die Hard fans who found the exact location where he shot the picture on the cover of his Project X Album they used the bridge and buildings in the background of this behind the scenes picture to locate the exact coordinates and patch of grass where Ken took the photo in mid 2023 a video came out of a fan telling cardi that he saved his life cardi responded telling him that he changed his life hey you saved my life you Sav my life you saved my life you Sav my life n you did during a 2022 interview homicide gang initiated the person interviewing them into homicide do you guys have other I don't know if they're like Affiliates or just like other people that you know that also go by like homicide something right yeah so like how homicide is a brand yeah yeah homicide is like you could put homicide you could be you homicide homicide ktl yeah for sure for sure hey I'm I'm trademarking that bro I how bad no I'm down with that sometime after 2016 Ken went to a cardi concert where he got into a fight with another person in the crowd Ken actually got kicked out of the show for the fight that went down cardi recognized Ken from when they previously met at one of Southside Studio sessions and personally gave him a wristband that allowed him to come back into the concert this interaction could be seen as the beginning of the relationship between Ken and cardi on October 11th 2019 a YouTuber by the name of un ghetto uploaded a video titled pillow fighting strangers in public 3 Atlanta hood Edition the YouTuber randomly happened to stumble across loone with his friend nus in the mall and they joined in on the pillow fighting action pillow fight pillow fight [Music] not going to lie he weave spin came back up and got me that was [Music] hard card's 2023 Wireless set in London allegedly Creed a minor earthquake due to the 50,000 people in attendance during his performance nearby towns in the area began reporting a light shaking while cardi was performing oh my [Music] God look at the cups Lon has stated in multiple interviews that he gets nervous during his performances and even cited it as a reason why he wears shades during his shows was that why you were wearing the shades no I wear the shades all the time cuz cuz I get nervous yeah he also noted that he was a lot more nervous during his early performances like when he opened for card's King Vamp tour my first couple shows I was very scared of Performing and what were you afraid of seeing all these people 100% it's like it's something I still kind of deal with but it's not too bad I was bro when I was on the king V 2 I was scared shitless this [ __ ] tell you and I was only doing one song and I was scared out my mind so it was like I had to do that scared there's a video of Lan on the king Vamp tour getting nervous and walking off stage until Ken grabs him and Hypes him up to continue performing there's these old photos lone took of himself modeling on a bus stop ad before he was famous when Ken Carson did a show in San Francisco in 2022 his tour van was broken into and local drug addicts were seen wearing his merch Ken Carson's tur van was broken into an SF where'd you get that beanie from I bought you yeah yeah where' you give me for it no where' you get it from though crackheads were seen wearing the merch all over San Francisco you paid them how much for it SS someone leaked their DMS with destroy lonely showing him attempting to buy their IG handle based on the messages it seems like the username he was trying to buy was lonely the person initially named their price at 10K and Mark 2020 loan responded in September 2020 then offered 5K in December 2020 he messaged again 2 days later then again in May of 2021 but the conversation cuts off [Music] here during an old IG live when Lan only had 20 viewers a fan left a comment saying break a back teller picker spine up loan liked the bar and ended up using it for his song yeah I what I'm on break her back to that [ __ ] pck H oh I ain't G Count I'm F to use that [ __ ] little bro that [ __ ] hard break her back to that L break her back to that [ __ ] pick [Music] SP there's pictures of opium merchandise from 2020 that were scrapped and unfortunately Never released cardi himself has been seen wearing scrapped opium merch like in his leaked documentary Ken Carson has been a big fan of Playboy cardi for a long time in 2016 he was seen wishing cardi a happy birthday and begging him to drop music he even made a tweet not only saying cardi is better than Uzi but saying cardi is better than anybody oh and remember Ken's favorite rap album of all time is whole out of red 9 91616 is the handle of card's private Instagram account the account only has 29 followers but someone managed to get into the account and show off some of its [Music] posts on the genius page for lone song If Looks Could Kill two fans got into an argument over a lyric about ravers one person thought he was talking about Balenciaga raver pants while the other thought he was just referencing the raver style from the ' 80s and 90s the argument got heated and ended with a threat as lone grew popular some fans started making promposals themed after him they usually revolved around his name saying it would destroy them if they were lonely loan did a trade with a fan giving him a Rick Owen shirt for a hat destroy lonely gave me his Rick on for my hat your up your hat snotty Hill is an unreleased homicide gang album executively produced by the late producer D Hill on November 1st 2021 it was announced that a new homicide gang album would be on the way with the official track list being revealed on November 21st 2021 homicide gang released the album's lead single damn nothing would come after this single and it seems like the album was scrapped bop bop is an iconic snippet of Lone trolling on a song [Music] hard there's a performance where Lan was wearing really short shorts that basically looked like underwear destroy lonely performing in underwear here's a better angle [Music] card's narcissist clothing line contained a few hoodies with different mug shots on them one of the mug shots was of Hubert leverage and one of the crimes he committed was sexual abuse of a young teen girl once word of who this guy was spread he was soon removed from the narcissist merch site no face no case is one of Lan's oldest songs being released on September 1st 2016 is actually music video to the song with only 12,000 views and it seems to be Lan's first ever music video I'm not face you might have been going by the name free Lonely at the time because the video's title says it's by free lonely and that was also on his IG Twitter Handles in the description kenor astronaut is a handle of Ken's old Twitter account from 2012 his bio is him Flex ing his basketball skill saying never play me in basketball or you'll be coming to school the next day with crutches simple as that the profile consists of old photos of himself his old girlfriend songs he was listening to memes and some really inappropriate tweets that you wouldn't expect to hear from a 12-year-old why in November of 2021 card's ex- hair stylist went on a rant against cardi and his crew basically calling cardi bisexual and gay someone later dm'd her asking why she thinks cardi is gay and if there's a story behind she said there is and that card's been F slur for years and that he has skeletons in his closet she then says card's been taking dick since before he ever left Georgia she then insinuates that cardi took a room full of dick in order to become successful and make millions there's an old clip of Lone Shouting Out Lil yachty and crediting him as the one who made him want to rap shout out to Lil yotti I met him at that one polarian Larry League show and he made me want to rap cuz he told me I could do whatever it's strange that it was Lil yti who made him want to rap rap and not his own father because Lan's dad was a rapper as well cardi isn't the only one in opium that people call demonic as many say the same thing about loan loone has been called out for things such as his upside down cross usage so help me out here you got L tattooed on your throat and then you have the upside down cross how we feeling about Jesus destroy lonely there's a video of fans ripping up a Bible during one of his shows and lone only acknowledging it it not denouncing [Music] it the Bible [ __ ] the Bible [Music] B at a show of his in San Francisco which I attended a Street Preacher went on a rant about loan to fans waiting to get in basically saying that they're all going to hell for attending his show destroy M healing your life tonight [Applause] does destroy lonely love you do you love destroyed lonely it's destroy Lely going to save you on Judgment [Applause] Day Reckless Richie is the artist name of Lan's older brother he has only 40 monthly listeners on Spotify and no songs with over a thousand streams he even dropped an album titled last man standing with pictures of his dad I20 and loone in the background on January 29th 2021 Ken Carson's Instagram account was taken down the first thing Ken did after finding this out was take to Twitter to announce that he'd no longer be making music he went on a tweeting rant getting mad and saying that he dropped his last EP and is dropping his last video he said it was fun told Instagram to bring his account back and asked who's hating that hard to do this to him the next day he went back on his retirement and said that he isn't going anywhere he then announced that he was making a new Instagram he posted his new IG account which had the handle free Ken Carson and had a profile picture of him behind bars the next day on January 31st 2021 Ken got his old account back that makes his free Ken Carson account one of the rarest artifacts in opium low because he was only ever on it for literally one day the count as of now has just 35 followers during loone set at rolling loud Portugal 2023 two fans were caught on camera making love while Lan was performing there's a clip from an old lone live stream where he showed himself watching an adult video here we go bro it's coming bro hold up bro all right look bro a dang looko he in it bro all in that this is so far I'm going to start getting on this if you dig deeper into his past this wouldn't be a surprise cuz he has many old tweets basically showing that he was addicted to this type of content he even said he started watching these types of videos when he was just eight similar to Lone Ken also has a history of being addicted to adult videos there are loads of old tweets Ken has made showing off the addiction that he had Ken even admitted that he watched too much of this content when looking at the cover of homicide gang snot or not album someone realized that the face belonged to Taylor Swift they then found that the source image for the album cover came from a celebrity tongue fetish subreddit some people like to believe that Ken Carson is a furry he posted a picture wearing these furry esque shoes and he also did a show in some too he's also made posts on Instagram that seem to have furry themes loan was also hit with furry rumors after a video was posted showing his music being played at a f [Music] Club loan actually responded to the video saying I own the rights to the song but not the vibe in late 2022 an old lone tweet from 2016 resurfaced showing him introducing Donald Trump as the next US president the rap page underground sound tweeted fans are removing destroy lonely songs from their playlists after now deleting a tweet from 2016 showing his support to then president Donald Trump surfaces I don't believe any fans were actually doing that though after Ken's lost files for tape was released a theory emerged that Ken is actually a woman the Theory comes from the fact that the chain on the cover of lost Files 4 is laid out exactly like the female gender symbol a message that loan sent to someone leaked that says I'm gay gang when loan was was 13 he replied to one of Tyler the crater's tweets calling him a f slur in March of 2022 the rapper Young KO said on Discord that he was joining opium Ken responded on Twitter not long after saying that boy is not opium the rapper takeoff from Migos tragically lost his life on November 1st 20122 the last post he ever made online was an Instagram story of himself with cardi song stop breathing playing the song's title was ironic in a very sad way rest in peace take off Tundra Boy Lonely is an old name that lone used to go by in 2016 one of his oldest songs on go from 2016 is under the name Tundra Boy Lonely on YouTube and has under 700 [Music] views the Instagram account Tundra Boy Lonely tagged in the description of the song shows a young lone in the profile picture and has only eight followers making it the rarest artifact in opium lore that I could find Lone mentioned the tundra Boy Lonely name in his 2016 song no face no case he's also made references to this name in some of his songs after he changed [Music] it e [Music] a video of Lone surfac of him at 15 years old calling cardi just decent and not really a rapper well cardi he decent he's music catchy I I respect cardi as a person it's just cardi like he not really a rapper he just he a flexer he like lone like really like be rap he then went on to say that the rapper D Savage is better than cardi and D Savage is someone who's dissed cardi several times well you can't even cap me bro D Savage better than cardi bro D Savage not better than cardi bro I'm going have to I'm going to have to hold you on that bro cuz D Savage be snapping bro D Savage ended up seeing the old video of loan and had this to say y' up man y y man y'all going to get this fired you hear me yall f up gang but I'm glad y'all get to see the truth man because I was getting a lot of the blame and a lot of fingers pointed at me for a long time man y'all see this right all right back when homicide bino was still Ken's manager he was caught selling unreleased cardi songs to people on Instagram homicide poo poo is the most m serious opium affiliate he's a member of the homicide gang and is seen linking with other members online like homicide stank pooo caught his first big break in January of 2023 when he got a co-sign from card's twin Matthew Williams on a post he made wearing his brand elak poo Poo's momentum was tragically cut short in August 2023 when he was incarcerated in Tokyo Japan this led to what is known as the free poo poo movement the movement was a success and pooo was freed in less than a month it's now just a matter of time until poooo takes over the game [ __ ] on all his competition well well well you made it congratulations you've now graduated opium High leave a comment saying I graduated opium high if you made it this far anyways thank you so much for watching the full thing I really appreciate it this video took me many months to make and the script is over 130 pages long if you enjoyed the video or learned something new it would mean a lot to me if you could leave a like And 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