The album arrived just a week before the tragic news of MF DOOM's passing. Fans, including many artists that DOOM influenced, shared an outpouring amount of tributes to the late rapper. Carti was among those, which led a few people to debate whether the Atlanta rapper was actually a fan of the masked villain. In a recent interview with Inked Magazine, the rapper explained that his shout-out to DOOM on "Stop Breathing" needed to be broken down to his engineer.

"I had to tell my boy, my best friend, my engineer. He’s the person recording the song, and he didn’t know who MF DOOM was,” Carti said. “I’m like, you don’t know MF DOOM? You don’t know who this dude is? I had to play songs for him, because he didn’t know who he inspired. The mask! I’m anonymous myself, but he’s king of that."

He acknowledged that their own musical styles are incredibly different but their intent when it came to music and their own public appearance aligned with each other. "I don’t have to sound like MF DOOM to be inspired by him,” he added. “Nobody can keep a leash on him. Nobody can keep a leash on me. That’s definitely his impact. Even if I didn’t know that at first, I had to look up and think about this s*** right here—it had already been done.”

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thank you carti, rip DOOM

How the hell is Carti anonymous lol

really bummed out DOOM had passed by the time this line dropped idk if he would've ever heard it himself but I was expecting DOOM's social media to acknowledge it. then the news broke

EVER SINCE MY BROTHER DIED

now new gen knows tho blessed

i think he means the way he tries not to do many interviews or really give much of himself outside of his music. i've never thought about comparing them in that way but it does make sense

aesthetic

my king.

he barely got a social media presence and he doesn't do much PR

Timing is crazy, would have been called a clout chaser if WLR dropped later

& hieroglyphics decoding is not for everyone

That's pretty cool

I don’t think there’s a mainstream rapper quieter than carti other than Kendrick

btw if yall peep the hnhh article its a lot of backlash in the comments dude pays homage to a solidified rap legend and these bums mad its carti who said it

Conveniently we’re just hearing about it huh

Lol

But cool if he’s genuine

@CaptainRay carti is doing it again lol

this was in the same interview I linked you too lmao

Real

Nice

damn this s*** still accurate