Fall is in the air, which might explain the slim pickings today. Slim as they are, they are offerings from fan favorites, tested banger makers, and music that fits more than one mood. This week’s heat includes Offset’s “5 4 3 2 1,” Fivio Foreign’s “London Freestyle,” and Chief Keef’s vocals on “Chief So.” So, […]
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Making a momentous return, multiplatinum GRAMMY® Award-nominated superstar and Atlanta icon Offset unleashes his first new solo record and music video in three years “5 4 3 2 1” available today via Motown Records. Listen to “5 4 3 2 1” HERE and watch the music video HERE.
Produced by Baby Keem, the track hinges on an ominously razor-sharp keyboard-laden beat. Meanwhile, Offset’s signature rapid fire flow cuts through the production as he counts down, “5 4 3 2 1.” In the accompanying music video, he dons an all Balenciaga fit as he takes over an amusement park. Catching air, he raps from a pirate ship tilt-a-whirl and on a swing suspended high above the ground.
It kickstarts another chapter from one of the most influential artists of the past decade as he prepares his next full-length body of work and the follow-up to the gold-certified chart-topping Father of 4 back in 2019. Of course, his rhymes also energized Migos’s blockbuster Culture III, which bowed at #2 on the Billboard Top 200, generated billions of streams, and received widespread acclaim last year.
However, he’s ready to break the internet and reshape the game like only he can once more.
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Making a momentous return, multiplatinum GRAMMY® Award-nominated superstar and Atlanta icon Offset unleashes his first new solo record and music video in three years “5 4 3 2 1” available today via Motown Records. Listen to “5 4 3 2 1” HERE and watch the music video HERE.
Produced by Baby Keem, the track hinges on an ominously razor-sharp keyboard-laden beat. Meanwhile, Offset’s signature rapid fire flow cuts through the production as he counts down, “5 4 3 2 1.” In the accompanying music video, he dons an all Balenciaga fit as he takes over an amusement park. Catching air, he raps from a pirate ship tilt-a-whirl and on a swing suspended high above the ground.
It kickstarts another chapter from one of the most influential artists of the past decade as he prepares his next full-length body of work and the follow-up to the gold-certified chart-topping Father of 4 back in 2019. Of course, his rhymes also energized Migos’s blockbuster Culture III, which bowed at #2 on the Billboard Top 200, generated billions of streams, and received widespread acclaim last year.
However, he’s ready to break the internet and reshape the game like only he can once more.
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The world may not have wanted to hear from Offset more than this week when it was known that he was dropping a single and had been teasing a solo project. After months of speculation, rumors, and silence, the “Ric Flair Drip” rapper has shared his first solo offering in years in “54321.” If people were hoping for answers to one of rap’s biggest current mysteries, this record may just leave you with more questions.
A few eyebrow-raising lyrics included the Atlanta rapper saying “Takeoff,” his group member’s name after the countdown in the hook. Of course, he could have easily been reimagining a space shuttle liftoff but the following line “Touch my brother, pull a gun.” There are also multiple allusions to him being in a group but no direct commentary on his status with Migos.
For Offset, “54321” follows his appearance on Trippie Redd’s “Big 14” also featuring Moneybagg Yo. It’s been a feature-heavy year for ‘Set, also delivering bars on “Step 1,” “Cake,” and “Rockin A Cardigan In Atlanta (Remix).” While Quavo and Takeoff do songs, interviews, and performances as just a duo, Offset seems unbothered as he pushes along.
Perhaps Quavo wasn’t lying about them simply pursuing other ventures but still remaining a group. We wouldn’t know otherwise as only one side is speaking on the matter.
Check out “54321” above.
Lawrenceville, Georgia rap trio Migos has been the subject of speculation among fans for the past several weeks, as fans wonder whether the band has split up thanks to group member Offset unfollowing his compatriots Quavo and Takeoff on Instagram. Just days after the unfollowing incident, Quavo and Takeoff released their own single “Hotel Lobby,” followed by the news they’d been replaced as Governors Ball headliners by Lil Wayne. At the same time, Offset began previewing his own new music, lending more momentum to the rumors.
— OFFSET (@OffsetYRN) July 28, 2022
Fun excitement realness https://t.co/oBPBwWYiYJ
— OFFSET (@OffsetYRN) July 28, 2022
Those rumors were accelerated today when a preview clip from an upcoming episode of the Rap Radar podcast featured Quavo and Takeoff appearing as a duo. While the full episode is due on August 18, fans couldn’t wait to speculate on why Offset wasn’t featured in the clip. Considering they’re also billed to perform at the 2022 Pepsi National Battle Of The Bands without reference to Offset, fans are rightfully anxious to know whether the trio has become a duo.
Huncho & The Rocket
@RapRadar https://t.co/AK5yOl0flc pic.twitter.com/ZYhkZLWGpC
— QuavoYRN (@QuavoStuntin) August 15, 2022
For what it’s worth, this isn’t the first time that the two Migos have performed without their compatriot. In 2013, shortly after their breakout with “Versace,” Offset was forced to serve a stint in DeKalb County Jail for violating his probation. Meanwhile, all three members of the group dropped solo albums between October 2018 and February 2019, and both Quavo and Offset released collaborative albums with artists outside the group in 2017 (Quavo, Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho with Travis Scott and Offset, Without Warning with 21 Savage and Metro Boomin).
So, the trio might well be a duo for now, but that doesn’t mean they won’t be back together again before we know it — after all, they are blood relatives (Quavo and Offset are cousins, while Quavo is Takeoff’s uncle). Some bonds are tighter than the rap business, and history shows they’ve yet to be separated even by the law. But the attention is definitely good for promotion, and fans will probably stay tuned in as long as there is the promise of drama to come.
After disabling her Twitter account earlier this year, Cardi B returned to social media a few weeks later with a more restrained approach, seemingly only interacting with fan accounts’ positive posts and only posting the occasional promo or cute baby pic. Now, it seems she’s taken to sharing affirmations, tweeting out a relatively straightforward photo in casual clothes with the caption, “Took a picture in this house I want to buy ….to remind myself to go harder …watch me get it.”
Her husband Offset, who has traditionally been way less online than she has over the years, even dusted off his account to help her manifest her goal. “Damn you really want this house,” he replied with a quote tweet. “Don’t worry we gone get it !!”
Damn you really want this house….. don’t worry we gone get it !! https://t.co/LdI1vS5q3c
— OFFSET (@OffsetYRN) August 10, 2022
It certainly seems the couple is in a better place than they were earlier in their marriage. While the first year or so after their nuptials were fraught with fights, accusations of infidelity, and multiple(!) divorce threats, these days, they’ve been putting on pretty public displays of affection, from Offset cracking fond jokes about Cardi’s cooking to Cardi giving a seductive pole dance to Offset while on vacation. They even have plans to record an album together. They might not be the next Bey-Z (yet), but if ‘Set’s been spending his days in marital bliss, it’s probably no wonder Quavo and Takeoff are out being single (and recording singles) without him.
