Offset’s Reset: The Rapper on Remembering Takeoff, Moving on From Migos and Launching His Next Era
variety.comOn Easter Sunday evening, in a palatial house on a ridge high in the hills above Hollywood, Offset puffs on a joint as songs from his forthcoming album blast from a portable speaker.
He’s been working on this album for many months — since Migos, the pioneering Atlanta hip-hop trio with which he rocketed to stardom in the mid-2010s, drifted into an unofficial hiatus a couple of years ago, and well before the shocking, tragic murder of his bandmate Takeoff outside a Houston bowling alley on Nov.
1. Several members of Offset’s team mill around the sparsely furnished house — one of three residences for the rapper and his wife, Cardi B — while the man himself, casually clad all in black, bobs in his seat, his wildcat eyes sparkling.
The room is filled with racks of designer drip as Offset’s team prepares looks for a photo shoot and his upcoming performance at the Rolling Loud Thailand festival, six days and more than 8,000 miles away.
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