Ten Years Later: Revisiting Curren$y & Alchemist’s “The Carrollton Heist”
“My Corvette was clockwork orange,
Tequila sunrise 7 o’ clock this morning, we getting Saturday night high”
I haven’t written something like this in a minute. I talk music all day. Tweets. Jokes. Random takes. Little dope culture moments. But sitting down and writing an actual article? Maaaaaaan.
The year is 2016. I’m 20. Just bought my first whip. ‘02 SAAB. Bronson inspired, obviously. I’m downloading music like it’s my job. Pulling up to Aurora in Providence (Stay Silent, whadup). “Going” to class in college… I definitely dropped out. If you were outside in 2016 you know what I mean when I say the energy felt different.
Mixtapes were still alive. Streaming was creeping in but it hadn’t swallowed everything yet. DatPiff was a ritual. Wake up. Refresh. Hope somebody you love dropped. Hope you discover somebody new. Text the homies like ‘yerrrrrr, this is crazy!’
That’s the era “The Carrollton Heist” lives in for me.
Five years after “Covert Coup,” Curren$y and Alchemist circled back. And I can’t lie… that’s not a small task. “Covert Coup” is one of those projects people treat like sacred text. (I’m people, btw) Too many moments. Flawless chemistry. Smoke in musical form. So following that up? Pressure. Wild pressure. And they still delivered.
A Valentine’s Day drop with nothing romantic about it. Features from Bronson, Styles P and Wayne. Come on, man. That’s not flowers & chocolate. That’s tinted windows & a calm drive at night. Every album needs some Alchemist production. I’m standing on that.
“The Carrollton Heist” feels focused. Tight. No wasted movement. Especially in a time when Spitta was dropping a lot. And I mean a lot. But this one never felt like filler. It felt curated.
And we gotta talk about “Fat Albert” featuring Lil Wayne. As an OG Spitta fan I always get hype when Wayne and him link. It feels like a legendary tag team reunion. You know they both can cook solo. But together? It’s different. Wayne’s verse on that record is one of my favorite Wayne verses of that entire decade. I’m not exaggerating. He raps like he’s reminding people who he is. Sharp. Confident. No wasted bars.
“Rap hustling, a lil’ bit like pack running,
Making stacks from it,
Racks like where we put the hunting guns at”
Also random but y’all lucky I’m not a DJ. Room full of baddies? I’m playing Action Bronson deep cuts and letting the chips fall where they may.
Fast forward to 2026. I’m 30 writing this. Still checking for the next Spitta drop. Anticipating another Curren$y and Larry June link up fully produced by Alchemist. Time is funny like that.
Curren$y being loved by all his peers is so fire to me. I’ve never heard ONE bad story about Spitta. That matters. Especially in an era where everybody got some weird story attached to them.
Ranking Curren$y projects is impossible anyway. It changes by mood. By season. By weed strain. By whether you’re driving or sitting still. But “The Carrollton Heist?” It’s in that upper tier. Easy. Ten years later it still sounds like that in-between era. When discovery felt personal. When tapes felt like events. When you actually had to look for music.
So I’ll leave it like this.
Where does “The Carrollton Heist” rank for you in Spitta’s discography? And where does it rank in your favorite Alchemist produced runs?
Tap in.
Signed, Cøøgi