‘I’m A Great Person’ Offset Seeks Reputation…
Offset is prepared to push the reset button on his image with the release of his latest project GMFU, on which he addresses the many self-inflicted wounds to his public persona.
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Over the last few years, Offset has gotten a dangerous repute. From his extremely publicized divorce from rapper Cardi B, with whom he shares three younger kids, to his break up from Quavo and the late Takeoff and his latest incident inside a on line casino, which resulted in his being shot, the previous Migos member has a lot of recon work to do on the public notion of him. At this level, he factors no fingers at anybody other than himself, but he’s hoping to go away the past behind him.
“I got lost,” he told the hosts of the NY Times’ Popcast. “I had a period of time when I was lost. I went through so many hits and I feel like it became a blur to what my passion and my vision is, which is music. And I feel like the personal takes have went so far on things that have happened in my life that, I’ve taken full accountability for, and it’s like sometimes I can’t escape the matrix. So, when I made this album I kinda got in a bag where I was like ‘you know what? I’ma just focus on this music. I don’t really hear all the noise.’ I’m a great person, I know this.”
Noticeably, Offset’s one-time band member, Quavo, is featured on two tracks from GMFU, marking another musical reunion between the 2 as the previous appeared on the latter’s solo album launched last month. Offset opened up about the demise of the group and what it’s taken for the 2 to come back together on wax.
“I believe it got to the point where we grew up and wanted different paths,” he said. “Everybody had ego. All of us just wanted more. I can’t say too much because I been in a situation with the old label and stuff. We started getting older and I had a lot of questions. And at one point, I’m just gone be real, I wanted to have my own creative process. Because I didn’t want business to ever get in the way of the creativity. The art is first. The art is always first. I had five kids at the time. Expensive partner. I’m trying to think for the future. I want to be my own boss, my own man. I want to own my masters, bro.”
When it comes to his relationship with Cardi B and where it stands today, Offset took accountability for how he grew to become the dangerous man in their break up. However, he says he was affected by people’s notion of him and doesn’t just like the impact it’s had on his kids and mother and father.
“Me and her good,” he said. “We worked through for our kids. We got through it. Time done passed, man. It was a patch of time when it happened but like we have children. We see the bigger thing. Me and her are cool. But it bothers me when people think I’m a bad person. I can say that as a man.”
Another chapter in Offset’s post-Migos and post-Cardi story has been his love for casinos and playing. After being shot outdoors a Florida on line casino, rumors shortly unfold that the Atlanta rapper was over his head and maxing out his money. He was also banned from a Detroit on line casino that alleges he skipped out on a six-figure credit line they fronted him to gamble. After claiming that he’s sometimes being paid by gaming corporations to take part, he admitted that he has a drawback saying,
“I need to stop, just keeping it a thousand. I need to stop. I feel like a problem is when you’re like selling s***, you ain’t got the money to do it. I’m doing the s*** to get away and I do like to gamble. It’s a problem.”
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