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It’s hard to think about the Opium crew without these stories of alleged violence on my mind. Their personas seem derived from the unruly and edgy rockstars of the past. “I’m Ken Carson, I’m bigger than the law, I ain’t going back to jail,” he raps mockingly on “Rockstar Lifestyle,” and you can picture him screaming that to his sold-out crowds of overwhelmingly male stans. It doesn’t even feel like he has much to say about rock music outside of this stance. “It’s about pushing the boundaries and doing whatever the fuck you want,” says Ken when asked what being a rockstar means to him, though the only band he can name that he’s inspired by is Green Day. “Putting your own back against the wall and being able to take the fucking heat.”
