The Breakfast Club - INTERVIEW: Offset Speaks On Sophomore Album, Getting A Good Woman, Brotherhood + More

Episode Date: October 11, 2023

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Wake that ass up. Early in the morning. The Breakfast Club. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha Guy. We have a special guest in the building. His album comes out this Friday, ladies and gentlemen, Offset. Yes, sir.

Yes, sir. Welcome back, brother. How you feeling, man? How's everything? I feel good, man. Blessed, man. I'm in a good spirit. In a good spirit? Yes, sir. What is that merch you feeling, man? How's everything? I feel good, man. Blessed, man. I'm in a good spirit. In a good spirit?

Yes, sir. What's that merch you've been wearing? What is that? Den of Tears and me collab. Okay, okay. So what's the orange? It's like a cotton wreath. That's like his signature, so I put the flames on it because I'm setting it off. Got you. Yeah. Got you.

So now, second album. This is the sophomore album. Set it off. Why did it take so long, the first thing people would say? It's been a while. Why it took so long? A lot of things. You know, Lost My Brother is the main reason. I was going to drop last year, I think around March. But I had got out of a creative space.

Like after that, I had to sit down for a minute and get with my mama and pray and get get myself together and uh also i just wanted to perfect the craft i didn't want to i wanted to make sure that that i that i dropped in it and it counted you know what i'm saying i didn't want to um especially like coming out of the group and stuff like that i i wanted to make sure um everything was aligned i didn't want no record sounding the same i didn't want me sounding the same and uh just being hard on myself critiquing myself on the music your household is very perfectionist yeah you you you and cardi y'all want to be perfection when you're when you both come out with your projects what got you to the space where you say okay well I'm ready to to record again and I'm back in a space where I can rap or I can get in the studio where or I can focus it was the thing

missing it was like me getting away from it was like taking the happiness we like my happiness is when I work and recording studio now I start even if I know if I'm not putting it out or not it's just a my it's like my mental cycle and uh I just felt myself like going to this little black little hole and uh my mama was just like just do what you love go to make some music he would want that you push forward and win though when you push for a win so that's what got me back in there was there a different level of urgency with this album because you know there's like truly no group to go back to no i ain't really no urgency urgency is just like not for that reason it's for life for my

identity I mean for my career and like for me to push for it that's why I took so long on it's me like cuz I just want to make sure I'm coming full circle and it's a little different than before now with your brother Quavo and we've seen you guys perform at the award show right and it meant a lot to the world right right? Because it was a surprise. Nobody seen it coming, but it just showed the beautiness of this game and how brothers can be. What was that initial call like

when they called you guys and asked you guys to do it? I was in Paris doing Fashion Week, and they called, and I wasn't sure at the time because I was running away from the reality. You know what I'm saying? And I had talked to Pharrell. We were sitting at a show, and I was telling him, like, man,

I don't know if I should do it because it just ain't going to be right. And I feel like I'm scared it's going to put me back in that moment. And he was like, nah, you got gotta do that for the world and for him like in y'all legacy man y'all the biggest group ever in hip-hop and also like he would want that bro he was like you need you need that energy you and your brother rocking that stage again even if it's for the last time or whatever like and this is that where he's like even for the last time whatever he don't really know what's going on he like but it's gonna be a

cleanser to both of y'all was it was I swear it was it was it was it felt like at first before I did I was still like because he reminds you know it's a reminder mm-hmm and uh but after we did it I just feel I did feel good about it like close the chapter on the right way, like on a big way, unity, love, and like giving to the people also. What was it like before that? Because I know that everybody talks about, I guess y'all got into something backstage somewhere.

It was a video where everybody heard Cardi yelling, like y'all both wrong. So what was it like before that moment? Oh, before what? Before y'all got on stage. Oh, nah, we were together, man. That shit a hard pill to swallow. Your bro missing.

All that other shit go out the window. You know what I'm saying? It's like family love everything, let's do this shit right. More than anything, because when you go into something with the wrong energy, you ain't gonna do it right. You know what I'm saying?

Went into it with the right energy, and that's my brother, so. They said you had to, when y'all got back, it wasn't scheduled so y'all had to practice for 24 hours before the awards to get it right. We had to practice the night before. Like one practice though, it wasn't.

But we was locked in and wanted to make sure the creative made sense. Like when you seen the rocket and all that going on, we actually did that last minute. And then it was like, I feel like the old time, because we was always late anyways. You know what I'm sense oh but we made it work out and I feel like it was I kind of performance and we did I think it was good what's your relationship now with Quavo that's my brother at the end of the day but we

good though bro we just be the children Paris we'd be talking because we'd be going through little emotions and shit like with this shit so I think and it don't be for the public that's the thing like when it's like this it don't be everything and for the public to be kicking and everybody want us to be but we still gotta move and I own worlds but it's like it's all love it and today we lost a brother we can't you know they want to see y'all cry on Instagram yeah they want you know not gonna get for me you think y'all cry on Instagram. That's what they want, you know? Not gonna get it from me. You think y'all ever make music together?

Not even just as Migos, but just as Set and Quavo? I think so. It's more about like, right now for me, it's more about me like, creating my foot in the game, because this is the situation. Also business-wise, like, I'm on my own business-wise too,

so it's like, a grown man, I got five kids too, so I gotta make sure I'm putting that food on the table. I think a lot of fans were hoping that there was maybe lost Takeoff verses or lost Migos records and that they would get that one more Migos album, but that doesn't seem like that's gonna happen. Nah, it ain't fair to put that pressure on us either,

after losing a brother, man. Maybe, you know what I'm saying, in the saying the future right now I just don't see it it's like hard me here I saw him sometimes in the club and people I might like I got a smile on my face but that shit like take verse come on I should like touch me every single time so it's like I don't see us doing that shit now I can imagine cuz to us is just a verse but to you it's like you probably think about the moment y'all recorded it. The moment we made it.

The day, yeah. They put me in that bag every time. I was just in Starlet the other night. And they playing Freak No More. And his verse come on, I'm like throwing money, his verse come on. It just like slowed me up real quick. What was the story behind that song?

You remember when y'all recorded it yeah i had just got out of jail the first time when i first got out wow and we was at the studio and it was like my first time working in a big studio because i ended up really working a big studio we always read at home before we took off and um i hated my verse i felt like because you know i feel like i'm rushed i'm coming home i'm like damn rest is. I'm thinking they so good, they been doing this shit, I had not been doing it, I probably was out for like two weeks, and we did that. Damn, and look it's still playing in the script club today.

Yep. Now what's the difference between this album, Set It Off, and Father of Four? Okay, Father of Four was like, I felt like I was getting more personal about who I was, my story of going to jail, having kids young, the story of my wife, my letter to my wife. I'm just in a, with this album, it's more like,

the music-wise, it's like more fun. I did all the new producers, so I didn't really, except for Metro and Southside, I didn't really work, all the producers I worked with on this, it's like new producers I never worked with because I didn't want to create the same sound. Because I feel like artists now, like, as an artist, sometimes, like, you just get stuck in your ways. And I let a lot of, I worked with an A&R this time.

Like, I know a lot of people shit on the A&R game, but the G, my A&R was fire. So she was able to bring me different producers that I never heard of and different sounds and give me, critiquing me on the music. Like, nah, this shit sound, this number one sound, number eight. Number eight sound like number 10. i never heard of and different sounds and give me critiquing me on the music like nah this is something number this number one side number eight number eight sound like number ten and for me i was happy because like usually i ain't going for that you know i ain't letting nobody tell me nothing but i understand like change the game change the sound be changing and you just got to change with it or you're going get left. Is it difficult with you doing music, right? Because you are a father of a husband, you're a father of five,

but yet you still in the club, so you know what people wanna hear. You know people in the club ain't married. You know the people in the club might not have some kids. So when you do your music, do you say, well, I gotta put myself in their situation and take myself out from the husband and take myself out being the father of five?

Cause you done, on this album, you a lot of a lot of chicks on this album i'm like you want to ask me how do you continue to rap about all these women all and you're married man that's what uh because i got a real wife like that she understands like we in this this is like i gotta be relatable and especially like i age like the average person ain't married and like like we don't tell you like people sometimes people I could see it like you let your wife dress like this and you know we don't like I'm very secure about my husband so we don't we ain't no controlling shit like don't do this or I'm not telling her don't do a feature with that at a time like because it's just like this this this they'll

interrupt the love I feel like when you go to doing Like, because it's just like, this, that interrupt the love, I feel like, when you go to doing that, cause then it's like, damn, I wanna be this person, I gotta talk to all these people, all these fans, and they gotta relate to me, but they can't relate to me if I'm standing in one lane. So I'm just blessed to have a good wife. But is that real though?

Cause you, like, you know, you are married, man. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So is it real? But that's how, but niggas ain't married fuck them okay so you say that but like that ain't who I'm trying to like like marriage in this time I feel like somebody married probably older because they've been married for a long time now niggas ain't getting married girls ain't getting married like I still got to be relatable I can't turn into like, box myself into one lane.

And it's like, especially the type of music, you make some lit music, some fun music, you still got kids and youngins that's in high school and college still listening to it. If I look at my analytics, my shit is big from 13 to 18 still, like long, like big still. So I'm still influencing that generation. It's not relatable, so I'm still influencing it a generation it's not relatable so I'm gonna be out of touch what about the people who those

same kids that love your personal life they love you and Cardi together as a couple and they follow y'all on social media and see all of that and they like Dan they might want to hear that reflected in the music cuz I know people got really excited when they heard y'all doing an album together yeah um our EP or whatever they don't they can't get mad at me because I'm not gonna tell her like you can't say shaking your ass or like you're having a good time girls want to feel that shit them bars she be saying but I guess you know too when Cardi talks about that I guess we all automatically assume when she says she's shaking ass is shaking her ass for her husband you know I mean when she's doing it it's like

she's doing it for set but you know I mean for you when i heard i'm not gonna do this i'm like oh he's putting his mind frame on somebody that's in the club not himself yeah i got to bro because it's like it's more of bros doing that than there's people that's married facts these are facts these are facts so i just still gotta be relatable to him. They gotta still feel like, ah shit ain't on that old nigga shit or like shit that got bad, da da da da da, that nigga. We don't even understand him no more. Then it's the worst, then there's no coming back from that.

So it's entertaining, you see what I'm saying? We entertaining. Ain't nothing but some entertainment. First song on the album you say you knew you was the one since you left the group. I think that was the line. What does that line mean to you um um you caught me right there this is fast so how do you know about that

we heard that oh y'all i didn't tell me what the album hitting for first yeah yeah i definitely bug with it um so that's just like a confidence bar like you know i went through some things i can't really speak on like i stepped out of the box and like i had to get my together on the business side of things and like i was i was like after that the freedom and the being able to be in control of my creative and being able to do that was like now i can show you who i am if you notice like now people kind of see I got a personality. They fucking with me. I feel like that shit was kind of bottled in when everything was all as one.

Because it wasn't really about me. It was about us. This album is about me. I could also tell with the album that, well, I knew it beforehand, but it shows more that you're a real hip-hop lover right yeah like your roots are very long for hip-hop and you know even with the Don I think it's a Don Toliver one where they kind of sample of Busta Rhymes and you kind of doing Busta Rhymes flow that you actually so how important was hip-hop growing up to you because I know you got roots in

New York I know you got roots in the land I know you got roots a little bit everywhere I'd be seeing set with people up like how the fuck do you know him like so you know talk about your roots and what hip-hop means to you because you sample a lot of that on this album. Hip-hop, man, meaning to me like, man, growing up is like the superheroes, you know what I'm saying, to me because I felt like it was so out of reach. And also I felt like they was like saving the world with the music and, you know, seeing like cash money match the p

because i'm from the south 100 like like outcast it was like i never thought the game would be how it is now like because you know y'all had y'all was y'all was ball hogging but y'all you got family i got family i was like okay okay i'm from Queens. You got family out here though. I got family out here, but y'all had the game in the chokehold and like growing up, you know we from Atlanta so we might not even listen to it. I might not even get on Jay-Z Towers in high school, you feel what I'm saying? I might not even know him through middle school. I knew Guwop, I knew Gucci, and I knew Jeezy, I knew Andre 3000, I knew Future. It's like our neighborhood heroes and like me, I feel like in general with music,

you gotta know your roots to be able to and pay respect to it too. Like I watched the James Browns, I be watching like how they would dress or how they stage set would be. Or sometimes I go watch a rock and roll, like Motley Crue or something. I go watch them stage set to get like a idea

even on stage and like, cause I feel like it always rotate, but you could just do it better in a better way. Well, one of the things you say throughout the album is, you keep referencing Blame It On Set. And that's a dope record too, by the way, the Blame It On Set record. What are some of the things you think folks blame you for?

No, it's not like people blame me for it. It's like me talking to myself almost. Like everything you went through is cause of you. Okay. It's like it's like it's like me talking to myself almost like everything you went through is because of you okay it's like taking responsibility everything you went through is because you like anytime anything happens it's on you that's all I was it wasn't like a specific like y'all blaming me no it was just like taking time being a man being a man yeah accountability like accountability for all actions. Got you.

People were mad at you a couple of weeks ago because you did that interview with, what's her name, Bobby? They weren't mad at me. I felt like they was. They smoked that interview. I felt like they was fucking with me. When I say they were mad at you, that you even gave her an opportunity to interview you.

You know what I mean? But when you look at the interview, I mean, I'm looking at one time, I think it was like it was over 3 million views already. So, you know, people were saying But when you look at the interview, I mean, I'm looking at one time, I think it was like, it was over three million views already. So, you know, people were saying, well, why would you give that girl an opportunity and not somebody from the culture? Um, reached out, I did my research, and I was like, I'm open to do it,

because you know, I don't like doing interviews at all. I was like, I'm open to doing it, I'm on the way, shit like that. And I felt like it was kind of comical, like, it's kind of funny. It's kind of funny to me. It wasn't like, I wasn't taking that shit like offensive and shit like that.

You just gotta be on your toes when you're doing it. No, she needed to be on her toes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she needed it. She needed it, you feel what I'm saying? And also like, I'm doing this for the brothers. You ain't finna catch me slipping on this show and be down talking to me and you like, you just coming up off TikTok.

It's all love though, but she cool, man. I don't know, I felt like a lot of people did take a lot of comedy out of it. It was supposed to be funny, man. You told her she needed some seasoning. Yeah, she do. Oh, absolutely. She need a little bit of seasoning.

A little bit of seasoning. I feel like, I like what she do, but I feel like you still gotta know, you gotta know something about the artist. That whole playing dumb, like you don't know who you're talking to. Guarantee you know something. You got to, you know, I think just getting caught up in your character kind of like it could get on you.

You should especially dealing with these brothers, black folks, you sit down with a black person and you doing that. It's kind of like, what the fuck? Absolutely. Absolutely. So, but it's cool though man ain't no issues or nothing but i feel like a lot of people's mad at her like but that's how she do the interviews i think i brought it to our world more it's like a lot of people like who the

why did she it was kind of taking it as like she was being disproved but she wasn't she just just i think that's the way she got on. Rob Markman You know, I hear you channel a lot in this album. I hear a lot of Project Pat. Were you listening to a lot of Pat? 3 6 and Project Pat? Yeah, man. That's what I'm saying.

It's like the underground music. And then they went underground and went big. Shout out to Juicy J, man. He a player. He a real nigga. Good producer. He ain't taxed me on the records. He a player. He a real nigga. Good producer. He ain't tax me on the records.

He didn't tax you. Oh, he did production on it. Nah, you get certain shit, you gotta talk to Juicy J about. He ain't do production. Certain shit, you gotta holler at Juicy J. Oh, so when you just using that flow? But you gotta think the sample on Jealousy is Juicy J. Yes, absolutely.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So, and then it's the South music, man. It's just always something about the South music to me even growing up. Just always felt like we was the shit because it was relatable to my neighborhood. You're from down there, man. Absolutely. Now we had Cardi up here and we were talking about your marriage and everything.

And she was like, sometimes it's difficult not to keep things off social, right? Like the one time, y'all always argue on social media. Y'all never just say, you know what, I'm going to put the phone down and call her. She's crazy, man. You crazy too. You know what, you married a woman from the Bronx. The craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida, you got to know that.

Yeah, I've learned it. I learned it. It's just like, man, the hate fan base, man, sometimes be like trying to like kill niggas. So then sometimes you gotta like, I feel like I gotta protect her. You know what I'm saying? I've made mistakes. You did what I'm saying?

So those mistakes make me continue to have to protect her as a man and shit don't just go away. So like, I just hate that shit. Cause it's like, we be good bro. Living the life like it's golden. We got beautiful kids. We don't bother nobody. But you know how it be.

Shit wack, though. But what about when you posted that your wife cheated? Like, that's causing turmoil in the house. Nah, it's calming her ass down. Don't play with me. Same way she's... But then the next day they holding hands together. It was Kaep, it was Ka holding hands together. It was Kaep.

It was Kaep. Everybody know it was Kaep. She was like, man. She was like, he was playing. He was lying. Sometimes bad go in too much on me, man. Like, I don't know. And it makes sense.

So I didn't want people to think like, people thinking this shit's real. So it was just a little Uno, reverse Uno card. That's what she said. She said, you threatened her. You said, if you don't stop, I'm going to get on the line and say you cheated. Yeah.

Because that's the thing. She got to make her you said if you don't stop i'm gonna get online and say you cheated yeah because that's the thing she gotta make her she got like she steal somebody too so like when they be doing that like it'd be like making her seem like she a sucker or some so then she gotta but then this time when she did she kind of alive and i'm like oh slow that down tune that down baby let me turn tone that shit down. Don't do me like, hey. Set willing to blow up the whole house. I'll blow up the whole house. We all going down. We all going down. This my fucking 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

It's over. Boom. Real. But we turn that into fun, though. Turn that into fun, man. Fuck y'all, man. Haters, man. Six years strong, man.

Six years strong. Congratulations. Why didn't Playboi Carti clear the song for the album? That's a rumor online. Is that true? Yeah, man. Congratulations. Why didn't Playboi Carti clear the song for the album? That's a rumor online. Is that true? Yeah, it's true. Shout out to my boy, man. See, because I don't get into it with niggas about music.

Sometimes people be going through their own, you know what I'm saying? Shout out to bro though, man. He should have cleared that motherfucker's smash though. I ain't gonna cap. But- Be like that. I don't get mad at folks for like that. Because sometimes people be going through their own little shit.

Or they might not. I don't know. It's all love though. It's my little bro. Do you make a call when the label says, hey, call you on clear? Do you try to use your personal relationship? Hit them up like, bro, what's up? You got to know your boys.

You got to know your homie. That's why I don't get into it with my homies. Because I always, I know how my homies is and shit like that so I ain't even really hit him on that hit him on that like that it's just like I'm like trying to move forward it's cool I got some shit in the day so that's how it's either dog to bro so love him I know no little loss he be going through shit to the map see my little brother I taught him on some other shit. So sometimes he go through shit. So it ain't no little loss.

Maybe on the next one. We saw this summer too. You dropped your lawsuit against QC. Can't talk about that. Oh, you can't talk about it. What's the relationship like now though? Shit. I can't talk about it.

Got you. Got you. Got you. Okay. Now, did authorities contact you after Nicki Minaj husband made those threats against you that was another room man hell no okay always ain't never calling me okay for you because they were saying they reached out to see if you wanted the press charge please mm-hmm I never do no lame-ass shit like that. I'd rather keep it discreet than do some shit like that.

That shit a joke, growing up, man, and doing shit like that. I don't even want to bring it up because I don't want people to like. But I just laugh at shit like that. I got real money. I'm handling real business. I'm on the way to Coach Prime, man, on the jet. I'm 30 years old, bro. I'm growing, man, on the jet. I'm 30 years old, bro. I'm grown as hell.

I got... And I'm trying to... You know how long it took me to get away from that? That bullshit online. So that's why anything online like that, in that manner, I just blow it off, because I done been in meetings where they like, oh, you the bad guy. I'm the one who got out of jail. We can't do this... I done missed out on money for that shit. So sometimes... And you just too... I'm just too old got a jail we can't do this G I didn't miss that on money for this shit. So sometime like and you just to I'm just too old Just pay the shit like that. I

Think sometime niggas want you to be tough and then when you crash out they call you stupid. That's right I've said some crazy shit about the shit They won't be tough when you crash out cause stupid and they're like I'm not going online with that. Mm-hmm What mm-hmm don't you know, it's just odd because y'all will cross each other paths all the time, right? Because y'all both had award shows. So it's just weird that it went that far and just why on line? I just never understood. I just feel like I always say this. I don't ever get in there because I'm a man. So the man should stay the fuck away.

Whatever's going on, whatever is going on, I don't get in there. I'm not doing no type of, none to that direction at all because I'm a man. I'm not getting in that business uh the little DM shit you had seen was because I'm a grown man also like I'm saying and men not even shouted but men is like going up like they trying to do something I'm calling my wife bitches and shit like it's a respect thing brother at the end of the day like don't speak on my wife and then i'm gonna dm you because i don't know you you see what i'm saying i'm gonna dm you to see what what are you doing like what you got going on because it's not for the public and then you go up with the shit it's like goofy shit that's why i don't be i try to stay away i shouldn't

have never even said nothing to a nigga at all because i'm never gonna see you we ain't gonna see each other, bro. It is, you like a street punk out here in New York. Whoever the nigga was like a street punk or something. It was like a random nigga that wasn't even in our business, not even in our world. But you threatening my wife, bro. I'm not playing those games.

I hate when men say anything about my wife. Cause it's like, you're a man. Let me get this phone in. But you a man. Don't speak on my wife bro I don't care how people think oh why you why you why you this is my wife mother my kids man me and disrespecting wife I see you ain't playing by choice you want to box niggas in they mouth I I'm going to get on your mouth. Yeah. Box your mouth.

All that playing, all the trying to twinkle your toes and kick your feet. Word. All that. Don't, don't, don't, don't speak on my wife, man. Just be, cause I'm not going to speak on you. I never speak on a woman business at all. It's just not going to happen. Even mine.

I did it one time, that one time. Yeah. What you just talking about? But I'm not speaking on no woman business. You're gonna lose as a man every time. But that wasn't real though when you posted it. Yeah, that wasn't real. Yeah, yeah.

Now, um. You got the crazy questions. Come on, come on. No. No, I was gonna talk about the song Healthy on the album. What does being healthy look like the offset nowadays? Keep a guide first. Staying focused on the creativity and the pitch

I'm trying to pay for the fans. And like, staying away from negativity. Doing it on my own. That's why I said keeping all this to myself, I don't know, cause it's like, I got too many people to, basically what I'm saying, I got too many people I gotta help and bless

to be thinking on my own. Like me moving, making decisions and moving and doing shit on my own. It's an effect, it's a domino effect on my family. And yeah man, I'm glad God was able to take me in a cooler space. I go through things behind closed doors sometimes still though for sure, but for the most part,

I'm kinda focusing. I think me being able to create and shoot my videos how I've been doing them and doing my own, I got my own production company. I've been directing my own videos being in control of my shit brings me happiness You know I'm saying cuz I'm a grown man It's not like before when I was young and just running around getting the money and like not paying attention to details and shit So I have to now so that bring me my happiness even being you 31 now, y'all been married six years. How did you know at 25, this the person I wanna spend the rest of my life with?

Cause it wasn't about nothing. You dig what I'm saying? Like it wasn't about, it was a no motive. It was just vibes and feelings and like growing into each other, the dependence, starting to depend on each other and like when I'm, this shit ain't easy to go through no matter young or whatever like the industry in the game the ups and lows that you know it's just like this with

this shit and to have somebody right there that's like that's gonna push you and not just be there she pushed me she pray with me bro like I never had no girl pray with praying praying with me praying with me like you pray with me if you are a family woman too like when i go see your roots and when i first was going home like how rooted you were to your family me coming from the south you know that shit mean everything like in this aid their age a lot of like the women ain't nowhere near their mamas and aunties and grandmas and like don't talk to them because maybe they're ashamed or whatever whatever they got going on She's a family person first. Mm-hmm. So when I felt like I got a keeper like Support me push me. Let me know shit like you could do this better. You could do this better

I'm gonna hurt her I could I leave but also she like she right there for me. Mm-hmm, and it was like Niggas don't get it like that's what what gets you, when you get you a good woman, that's what gets your focus like. And then like you start like, like my mamas, I was growing up, my mamas, my grandma, good women make good men, facts. So it's like, you need that core base. I need that, I was wild wild west

riding this motherfucker. L know what I'm saying? Losing it. Lose cannon. Jumping off the stage with the falcon punch. Yeah. Yeah. That was this.

Slow that down. Focus it up and get on the money. Now, we had Cardi up here and she talked about how much she supports you and was riding for you, loving your music.

Now, let me ask you a question. Are we going to get a second Cardi album anytime soon, man? She announced it. I thought I saw her. I thought I saw her announce it recently. No, she announced nothing. She anytime soon, man? She announced it. I thought I saw them announce it recently.

No, she ain't announced nothing. She said maybe first quarter. She said 2024. She said 2024. Is it done? We almost there? We almost there. For sure.

I ain't cap'n. They almost there. I swear I thought I saw them put out an album cover and everything. I made that up? Yeah, you made that up. Yeah, you made that up. That must have been fake online.

That's the shit you want to happen. Real nigga? No, I saw it and I was like, well damn, why ain't nobody talking about this? It must have been, online. That's the shit you want to have. Real nigga? No. And I saw it. I was like, well, damn, why ain't nobody talking about this? It must have been. It probably was fake. But there's rumors that y'all was working on the joint album together, too, though. Yeah, after hers.

You think that would be the album? Like, the way you just expressed love for your wife and, you know, why you decided to be with her, you think we'll get that in music on that project? For sure. OK. Then a tour. Then a tour. Oh, y'all definitely having another baby after the thought that's definitely happening then she said she said she wanted more

right she said she wanted more yeah i seen her say that shit up here man you don't want no more father six college expensive what I know Father 6 next album how many you got 6 I'm done

done done I got 4 but I'm done I'm done done done I got 2 in college right now college expensive college waxing that ass that's right

pause let's get to a joint hold on I do want to ask one question what have you learned from takeoffs passing what have I learned that's a hard question bro.

What have I learned from that? You alright? What have I learned? Rob Markman I mean if you still haven't learned it yet, that's fine too though. You know what I mean? It's a process. Rob Markman I'm still learning man.

That's why it was hard to answer that shit. I'm still learning. I don's why I was hard to answer that shit. I'm still learning. I don't even know what to say. The lesson is just pain. It ain't really, you're trying to run from that shit. Rob Markman Have you done anything to deal with that grief? Have you sat down with somebody? Lil Jon I be feeling like bro that shit like sitting down with, like, maybe I ain't found the right person, but I don't feel like sometimes people, like, can't relate to shit. Like, your death in the family is different. Like, could have been from, like, sickness or something.

My death is different where, like, you want to do something. You know what I'm saying? And it's like, I done lost a couple friends like this. So, I don't feel like somebody can sit in front of me that ain't lost a couple friends in this way. You know what I'm saying? And in a public way, and like, I just feel sorry to my mama and God and my wife.

The family is what- Keeps you grounded. Keeps you grounded and be able to hold you tight and you feel comfortable being vulnerable. Like I cry with my mama, I cry with my wife, but I can't like, it ain't for everybody to see. That's why culturally competent therapists and psychiatrists and grief counselors are very important.

You gotta have somebody who from it to understand it. I feel like sometime in them job spaces, they not giving people who maybe have a record. And those the people you need to have in the office because they been through some shit that they can really relate to black people. I feel like the therapy thing don't really be for black folks a lot of times,

because it's not, every person I ever seen in it, they ain't, they like took it right way. Everything was good on paper. Everything is good. The college, da da da da. It ain't like a wallow. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Who lived it. A nigga that's in the street, a young nigga that's in the street who's selling dope right now with their gun and will listen to him way before they'll listen to somebody that look like them but just can't trying to tell them how to do it can't relate see i ask questions back i've sit down with somebody i'm gonna ask you your questions back like so have you ever done it and if it ain't it's a waste of time and i just feel like even with that situation it's so popular we in group i don't know who the i can sit there and talk to that won't be on some like i said when i said today it'd be awesome i'm scared like like that and i feel like therapy don't be for like the public that's why it's therapy like that's why people go to the class

it's not for everybody to be on it like they might know in the business well we appreciate you the album comes out this friday set it off you want to you want to play it right what was the favorite What was your favorite song? What did you feel like? There's a couple. I like Say My Grace. I like Worth It because I'm from that era. So I like you kind of catching the buster flow, which was different for me.

I like Blame It On Set. I like the one where you had the Project Pat flow. The first song on the album, Hard. On the River, yeah, that's when he said I'm the one, yeah. That's Hard. What else? I don't know, I gotta listen to it again. I only gotta listen to it one time.

Yeah, listen to it one time too. I wanted to bring rap, like rapping on the song, but I feel like it's a lot of auto-tune, a lot of like, I got melodies on here, of course, but like. Your voice don't need it though. Niggas gotta get to the rapping. But your voice so distinct, you don't need the auto-tune in that.

Oh, the joint with Travis? That's what I said. Say My Grace. Say My Grace. Oh, okay, yeah, Say My Grace. All right, all right, yeah, that's hard. That's hard, we got the video. We shot that shit in Thailand too.

Y'all can't wait to see that shit. What does success look like to you for Set It Off? Like what do you want this album to do? Because I know you're trying to carve out, you already got your own identity as Offset, but I think you're trying to carve it out musically. So what does success look like for Offset? The music connected to the people.

Like I'm not, you know how we came in the game, like the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, like, I hate how everything is clocked now. Like the number shit, like the first day, cause then that gives people opinions already immediately that they ain't even chatting to us. So me, I'm just trying to connect musically with these people.

And like you said, identify offset sound like I did on Ric Flair. That was like, oh shit, bro, we got that. It's proven, and showing my creativity. You see my album cover falling from the sky upside down, but I'm still on top. it's like being able to express the art it's not numbers for me that should be capped because i come from see my my number one record was number 60 and 40 and 20 and 10 then number one so i know like working the record i feel like people don't be working records no more.

Or seeing the importance of radio and shit, because that's what keeps the wheel spinning. People be on some, oh, I dropped this week? Okay, fuck that, I'm working on a new album. You got to work the records, bro, because then that's when they be seasoned. It's like seasoning chicken, going back to that. You got to marinate that motherfucker, let it sit.

Let it get ripe. And then when marinate that motherfucker, let it sit, let it get ripe. And then when you plate the meal, it's like, ooh, I want to eat that again. And they keep going back to it. That's why Father 4 wasn't like a lit album, like, ah, like a turntable album because I wanted you to digest who I was and walking in my shoes, dealing with the shit and traumas I went through, the wife and the kids. And then that album gave me the identity to be able to do this. Because I'm not gonna lie, every person that always taught me

about that album was like, we appreciate the album. It made me see you in another lens that I never looked at you at. And so it gave people like an opening to me. So now this one gonna be like, yeah, I'm here. I'm here now. Now I love this conversation, because everything you saying,

because I saw you say the other day about how it's not too many rappers doing festivals anymore, but so many people can make money. You gonna have to bring all that back. You gonna have to bring back the A&R Helping With Projects. You gonna have to bring back caring about radio, you know what I mean, to get them spins.

Like that's how you gonna end up on them stages. Facts, cause them festivals and them big places, they checking your numbers. They checking where your song at on Billboard. I learned that at like, I think I learned that at 2016. I forgot who the artist was. They was going after us. And I'm like, I know we hotter than them.

I know this. Rob Markman, The streaming numbers was- Lil Jon, It was like a radio show too. I was like, well they on Billboard. They on top 15. Y'all like number radio show too. I'm just like, boy, they on the billboard. They on top 15. Y'all like number 40 right now. And then it made me understand the significance point of it. So it's some people that still watch.

And I just feel like artists ain't, rappers ain't putting on no show, bro. Nah. We just getting the bag. And like people try to pan the bag like that. The show ain't, like you gotta put on a show. I can do extra shit, so I got that advantage. And so I'ma do it. Just go around like. You gonna dance and everything. Yeah, yeah, I don't on a show. I can do extra shit so I got that advantage. And so I'ma do it.

Just go around like. Rob Markman You gonna dance and everything. Lil Jon Yeah, yeah. I don't give a fuck. You think it's like not cool, cool. People like to be entertained more than anything. Rob Markman That's right. Rob Markman You popping your, one more thing.

You popping your shit on the album too. Cause you talk about on the album how the first number one was because of you. Bad and Bougie was your record. I don't know if people realize that. Lil Jon Yeah, it was. Rob Markman That was your record. I don't know if people realized that. Yeah, it was. That was your record. It was just you and Uzi at first, right? Yeah.

Just being Uzi. It's just like not being appreciated in the system, I'm going to say. You know what I'm saying? Not being appreciated in the system, that's what I'm going to say, because I can't say certain shit. Not being appreciated in the system, man.

And it's like, believe in me. All right, all right, all right. All right. Well, what you want to hear off the album? What you want to play? Any song I can. Hmm? Any song you want.

Any song. Play that Worth It, man. Worth It. Let's get in that bag, man. Featuring Don Toliver. And we appreciate you joining us. The album is out this Friday. Set it off.

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