OpiumBaby Interview: Creative Directing, Whole Lotta Red, Saint Peter's Showroom, Destroy Lonely

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For this week's episode, Arshan took a trip to LA to interview one of hip hop's most sought after creative directors, Opium Baby. Jay, or Opium Baby came up by acting & moving his family to LA off gigs like Nike Commerical and Disney shows, but slowly realized that wasn't his passion. It started to get corny for him so he spent a lot of time on Fairfax with creatives like John Ross, and ended up getting heavily involved in that scene -- meeting artists like Playboi Carti, ASAP Rocky, & skipping school to attend events like Yeezy Season. Opium Baby ended up doing a bunch of cool projects like working on Whole Lotta Red (produced F33l Like Dying, had a role in the album cover, etc), directing music videos for artists like Destroy Lonely & Ken Carson (MDMA), but more importantly, his own brand, "Saint Peter's Showroom". He talks about how he likes to create short films for each drop, and how his recent ComplexCon with John Ross featured an entire boxing ring. Opium Baby also talks about the fashion sense of the Opium Group (Ken Carson, Playboi Carti, Homixide Gang) is inspired by eastern Europe, and it's not this corny hot topic aesthetic. He talks about how much intent he has behind his brand, and doesn't like "Instagram Clothes". There's a ton of cool moments in this interview -- Opium Baby even helped write Kid Cudi's verse on M3tamorphosis. Just a ton of gems and inspiration. Enjoy.

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0:00 - Why did Opiumbaby finally do an interview?
2:15 - Growing up in South Carolina, Atlanta, but moving to LA to act
3:45 - Was acting paying a lot?
4:23 - Being in a commerical with Kobe, Lebron, Kyrie, Future
5:36 - How he met people like Carti, John Ross, ASAP Rocky through being on Fairfax
6:35 - Is he still friends with the initial group he was with on Fairfax? Lol
8:00 - Whole Lotta Red was one of the first projects he was proud of being involved in
9:00 - Showing Carti the magazine that inspired the WLR album cover, reading books
9:40 - Cowriting M3tamorphosis with Kid Cudi
10:12 - Finding & signing Destroy Lonely, what does it take for him to be impressed by an artist?
11:45 - Is having taste a skill?
13:02 - Loving Bakshi films
14:00 - Opiumbaby cant tell us who hes listening to recently
16:00 - Fans constantly making posts and theories about him and his camp
17:50 - How does he go about creative directing for clothes vs music
19:06 - Everyone in Opium is each other's creative director
19:45 - Co directing the music video for MDMA for Ken Carson & Destroy Lonely
20:20 - Making short films for his clothing brand, Saint Peter's Showroom
22:43 - Wearing Rick since he was a teenager
23:40 - He doesnt like when people say Opium has an aesthetic, says it's Eastern European influence
26:00 - Did he have any input in the Narcissist clothing drop? How does he find models?
29:20 - Skipping school to go to things like Yeezy Season
30:40 - Why doesnt he talk about all the projects he was part of?
31:17 - Making beats like F33l Like Dying
33:36 - Opium Baby's advice for KTO

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