"I AM MUSIC" is a distraction.
I made this comment on the day the album released and since then we've seen Carti entertain the idea of dropping back 2 back multiple times, and there are rumors of BABY BOI coming soon.
I believe that MUSIC was just a distraction, to satisfy the label, the fans and to buy him more time for what he actually wants to make and what he cares about.
I believe BABY BOI is the actual album that took all this time to complete. Think about it... you really believe that THIS album is all that Carti was working on for the last 5 years?
Why exactly did this album have to be delayed a million times for it to finally come out? Its not fucking TPAB, its not like he needed more time to get everything just right because its just a random collection of poorly mixed songs, snippets and old material. The man didn't even know Kendrick was on the record the night it was supposed to drop.
A man who delays an album for a year and a half cares about it and wants to make something great, there is no chance the state of this album and the way its poorly mixed and thrown together is the ultimate perfect vision Carti wanted and took all this time to complete, there is just no way.
A lot of people say that he just doesn't care and that he is lazy, but if that were the truth, he would have released it a year ago in whatever state it was in, I doubt that it could be more of a mess than this and that after all the delays and all this time this was the best result he could achieve.
This isn't even an album, its a mixtape, its just a bunch of random thrown together songs, there was supposed to be 24 songs on the album the day before it dropped and then he added additional 6 songs last minute, to me that doesn't sound like the same Carti that delayed the album release 50 billion times because "he is perfecting the album". You don't do that if you care about the album and its final state.
Some of these songs sound new, some sound like they were made in the die lit or wlr era, some are poorly mixed, there is no order, no theme, no nothing. Its just a bunch of singles strapped together in (surely) a short amount of time. A lot of the singles are missing on this one, where are they? Where is "drugs got me numb"? Maybe some of them were meant for BABY BOI from the get go.
Some of the songs on this mixtape are fire yes and I like it overall, also Carti is a deadbeat junkie, but do you really think that it took this man that long to make THIS? I think most of us would agree that this seems like it was made in a few months max...
I'm telling you that BABY BOI is the real thing we've been waiting on, future and metro's second drop last year was just the extra material, but I believe that Carti gave us the extra's first, and will give us the main course later.
And yes.. I am saying that he basically scammed us again and delayed the album once more, without us even noticing this time.