[2] His third studio album, A Great Chaos (2023), peaked number 11 on the chart and received warmer reviews by comparison; its deluxe release spawned his first Billboard Hot 100 entry with the single "Overseas".

[4] Carson initially joined 808 Mafia in 2015 as a rapper after meeting fellow record producer TM88,[5][6] and would begin releasing music on SoundCloud as early as 2017.

After gaining popularity in the underground rap scene, he would be discovered by fellow Atlanta rapper Playboi Carti and signed to his label Opium in 2019.

[13][14] On October 31, 2022, Ken Carson released a deluxe version of his X album named Xtended, alongside a music video on YouTube for his song "MDMA" featuring Destroy Lonely.

Carson performed tracks "Fighting My Demons", "Lose It", "Hardcore", "Singapore", and "Paranoid" alongside his Opium labelmate, Destroy Lonely, before bringing out fellow rapper and the aforementioned label's founder, Playboi Carti, to perform songs from the rapper's latest album, "Stop Breathing" from Whole Lotta Red (2020), and "Fe!n" from Travis Scott's fourth studio album Utopia (2023).