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Ken Carson’s album promo strategy isn’t quite going as planned. The Atlanta rapper reacted to reports that his for the fans releases have been tainted by someone trying to get a quick come up.
What Happened With Ken Carson’s Music?
As part of his rollout for his new album XPERIMENT, Carson has hid flash drives around big city parks containing a couple songs from the project. At first, the rollout worked like a charm. Carson decided to harken back to the times of when flash drives would leak out to the internet, much before Untitled projects, and WeTransfers became the norm of sharing music.
Through this, he put a play on leaking through music theft, a popular method of music getting out to the masses in 2010s, sometimes on accident, sometimes as strategy. To do this, Carson chose a few cities to hide a flash drive in the designated area. He began by stashing a hidden drive in Atlanta, then Chicago a day after.
But on the third day, Carson hid his drive in Los Angeles, which a fan found quickly. According to Carson’s message, when fans found the drive, they were instructed to share the contents with the rest of the world. This worked at first, as fans leaked a couple songs, revealing features such as Young Thug.
However, the person who found it in Los Angeles, decided to get a quick bag and put the flash drive up on eBay. News spread quickly, leading to a response from Carson.
“wtf,” he posted on X.
He has not elaborated on his thoughts, and hasn’t indicated any changes to the final USB drop planned Monday (June 29th) in New York.
— 𐕣 (@kencarson) June 29, 2026
How Did Fans React?
Fans mostly found the sale of Carson’s drive quite lame.
“Nah f*** that. I alr sent out a blacked out truck with my guys in it who gon get the job done. We gon turn him into an xperiment don’t even trip x5,” one user posted.
“N**** said yo shii worth $600 and you just added value with the cartunez announcement….. at this specific moment….. id like to severely and profusely apologize to each and everyone of the artists ive ever done wrong or put inna tough spot over these actually ignorant idiots of consumers that literally are terrified and beyond broken of reasonable doubt,” Another user posted.
“This is the f******* best rollout to hit earth since MJ did thriller,” another user posted.
However, some people understood the person’s move.
“N**** I’d sell that b**** too yall n***** group buy anything,” one user posted.
“Literally HOW did they expect dis to go any other way ppl struggling out here surely they aint that out of touch,” another user posted.
“I would sell it for 100k you r***** muts would pay anything for dogs*** music,” another user posted.
Carson will drop XPERIMENT on July 3rd. He will also release a second album, CARTUNEZ, on July 10th.
