Feeling inspired by their touring success, the group immediately returned to the studio following their Bonnaroo concert to begin recording more tracks, bucking their usual trend of waiting a year and a half between full-album releases.

Due to a production backlog, Gold Dust Media would be unable to release a follow-up album to Fun DMC with the speed the group had hoped for, so PUTS made a return to the Om Records label for Carried Away.

For instance, the song "Check The Vibe" was a clear parody of A Tribe Called Quest, created after the group discovered a vinyl record with an organ sample that sounded like it could have come from The Low End Theory.

[2] Double K also imitates various classic hip hop artists, such as Melle Mel and Shock G, at various points across the album, and the group includes an extended shout-out sequence at the end of the vinyl-only track, "All Good Things".

The album also includes the usual array of People Under The Stairs "themed" tracks: odes to L.A. ("80 Blocks From Silverlake", "Down In L.A."), food and alcohol ("Chicken Kebap", "Beer"), marijuana ("Come On, Let's Get High"), classic hip hop ("Letter From The Old School", "Check The Vibe"), and the music industry ("DQMOT", "All Good Things").