inkedmag.com/original-news/playboicarti

🚨 new interview alert 🚨

“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 says. “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.

So when Carti raps, “I thought I had Pi’erre, but the label tricked me,” he means that he wanted to sign Bourne to his own imprint, Opium. “But I slept on it, and I woke up, and he was signed to a major label,” he says. “I wasn’t really salty about it. I was just looking at it like, alright, cool. I just need to lock it in when I step into a room with some people from now on, because I feel like people just started looking at my taste and my opinion. ‘Alright, if Carti likes it, sign it—boom.’”

so Opium is an imprint under Interscope?

also super intriguing that it was Kanye who hit up Carti, and not the other way around.

that's def because he had to record a new verse prob once he realised carti turned in the version with a 5 year old verse

Ye recognising greatness

shameless plug

"Yet Carti insists that his approach to music hasn’t fundamentally changed. That was true for the “baby voice”—a characterization Carti disagrees with, for what that is worth. “With the flows, the whole baby voice s***, I don’t even pay attention to that title,” Carti says. “I think that’s bullshit. I think people be forgetting I’m from Atlanta. I look at Atlanta as the home of hip-hop, and I feel like we popping s***, you know what I’m saying? I just kept that within me throughout my career.” And that even goes for the way he rasps now, his vocal cords sounding torn to shreds"

carti against the baby voice title

What I been saying. There is no baby voice, it's just him

highsnobiety.com/p/matthew-m-williams-playboi-carti-interview

so many interviews

"If the world’s going right. I’m gonna go left. If your cross is straight, then I’m gonna put my s*** upside down. If you hate cigarettes, then I’m gonna smoke as many as I can. I’m anti-everything. I’m not going out my way to have people like, ‘Oh, what the f***’s Carti on? Is he gay, or is he trolling?’ No, bro — I don’t give a f***. I’m being myself. I hate that I waited so long to be myself. I wish I came in like this. But if you look at my career you see little signs of that s***. Even if I wasn’t wearing all black and all that s***, I always had a glimpse of this. ‘Oh yeah, bro out here, he on some whole other s***’ – it’s always been me. From the moment I came into this game. You know what I’m saying?"

the realest s*** carti has ever said, wow. i hope people read this

"I hate that I waited so long to be myself."

how long until someone takes the second one and slaps a red filter on it

'Just to look like this it took a long time. . .'

Hits different now

They thought I was gay

I wish Carti would do some video interviews as well

forever #1 in my book. no other artist is like Carti. nobody.

"As Carti’s star rose, what began with two artists kicking it and listening to music grew naturally into Williams contributing ideas for Carti’s videos and photo shoots."

-wish Carti would let us see some of those videos...hahaha

OIFJEWOIFJEIOFJEIJEOIFJJ SPEAK OF THE DEVIL

it has to be a vid since it's Nico posting that

honestly he's friends with carti now right? might be deluxe + video