Jordan Carter, known professionally as Playboi Carti, announced on August 25th that he would be embarking on a full stadium tour with his Opium label, titled the Antagonist 2.0 Tour. The tour announcement comes after the success of Carter’s latest album, I Am Music, which debuted as the No. 1 album on Billboard’s Top 200 chart, grossing 298,000 album-equivalent sales in its first week of charting.  It also comes with the success of the past year the Opium label has had, namely due to recently released projects from Carter’s labelmates Ken Carson, Destroy Lonely, and Homixide Gang, including the albums More Chaos, Love Lasts Forever, and Homixide Lifestyle 2, respectively. Carter founded the Opium label in 2019, and has since signed the aforementioned acts, all of whom will be joining alongside him on this tour, as well as underground rapper Apollo Red.

This is not the first introduction to the Antagonist tagline; Carter announced the original leg of the tour in 2023, with a first date at Denver in September of the same year. However, this tour was postponed to the beginning of the following year, and shortly cancelled completely afterwards. However, rather than completely scrapping the idea of a label tour, it would appear that Carter merely shelved the idea until now. Carter has been touring as an opener in support of The Weeknd’s After Hours Til Dawn Tour, which began earlier this May, and will continue through September. He has also headlined multiple festivals since his last stadium tour in 2020, most notably Rolling Loud Miami, Rolling Loud California, and Chicago hip-hop festival Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash. Carter’s labelmates have made similar appearances at many of the same festivals, as well as supported their own solo arena tours, including Ken Carson, whose Lord Of Chaos Tour began earlier this year.

The Opium collective kicks off the Antagonist 2.0 Tour on October 3rd, in Salt Lake City, and will perform in Chicago’s United Center on October 30th. Tickets go on sale August 29th.