Critical reception
The song received generally mixed reviews from music critics. Billboard placed the song at number 29 (second-to-last) in their ranking of the songs on Music, with Michael Saponara stating "There are times when clashing aesthetics and opposites attract, but this isn't one, as Swamp Izzo's tag feels overbearing" and the song "could've been taken to another level." [1] Pitchfork's Alphonse Pierre critically described the song as "basically Carti's take on 1017 Thug's stream-of-conscious mayhem, with a collision of gunshots, Swamp Izzo supervillain laughs, and blown-out bass", [5] adding that Playboi Carti's "pitch rapidly shifts from sounding like he’s mid-burp to high enough that, when he hangs onto a note at the end, he almost channels the falsetto of a teenage Tevin Campbell." [5] Mosi Reeves of Rolling Stone called it one of the songs from Music that "scintillate with weirdly alluring funk". [6] Reviewing the album for The Quietus , Christian Eede commented, "'OLYMPIAN' and 'OPM BABI' are a febrile one-two punch of bass-boosted Atlanta trap brilliance, the latter in particular a dizzying clash of gunshot samples, the rapper's Auto-Tune-assisted falsetto and the maxed-out vocal tags of Swamp Izzo". [2]
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