10 Things Offset Can't Live Without

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There are a few things Offset can't live without. From a pair of gloves and Chrome Heart jeans to his Louis Vuitton jewelry briefcase, here are the rapper's essentials.

Offset's new album, Set It Off, releases October 13.

Director: Jeremy Clowney
Director of Photography: Brad Wickham
Editor: Paul Isakson
Talent: Offset
Senior Producer: Lizzy Halberstadt
Line Producer: Jen Santos
Production Manager: James Pipitone
Production Coordinator: Tania Jones
Talent Booker: Jenna Caldwell, Paige Garbarini
Camera Operator: Jack Belisle
Audio Engineer: Rehanna Chandan
Production Assistant: Zayna Allen
Post Production Supervisor: Rachael Knight
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Rob Lombardi
Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds
Transcript
00:00 - Do you ever leave your phone at home by accident?
00:01 - I don't never leave the phone at home, I got a wife.
00:04 Can't do that, buddy.
00:06 What's up GQ, it's Wild Shet,
00:08 and these are the 10 things that I cannot live without.
00:10 [upbeat music]
00:13 My babies right here.
00:17 You see these?
00:18 These right here, these some 85s.
00:20 You ain't got these, and then the condition I got 'em in
00:22 is just so perfect and beautiful.
00:24 The thing why I love these shoes is,
00:25 ain't nothing got a match, you can just throw these on,
00:27 'cause it's just, it's the 85s,
00:28 what's somebody gonna say to you?
00:30 - How many ones you got?
00:31 - Over like 200 probably, for sure.
00:33 How many 85s I got?
00:34 I probably got like, I got the black toes, I got these.
00:37 I got three pair of these, actually.
00:39 I got one in a size nine, and I'm a nine and a half, 10,
00:42 but they was so clean, I just had to get 'em.
00:44 So I probably got like four pair, five pair.
00:46 I ain't never caught nothing off of eBay.
00:48 I be scared a little bit too.
00:49 I ain't gonna get caught for nothing.
00:51 I don't got everything I want, I just want everything.
00:53 You know what I been looking for though,
00:54 me and my boy A-Rod, I been looking for all the old Barkley's
00:57 can't find 'em, can't find 'em at all.
00:58 And I like, I like 15s.
01:00 You gotta really know what you're doing, you like the 15s.
01:02 - Who you think your collection rival?
01:03 - PJ Tucker for sure, Fat Joe.
01:05 Fat Joe is a maniac.
01:07 And then Mayer, Mayer had like some suede, orange threes.
01:11 I ain't gonna lie, Lil Yachty nasty too though.
01:12 He get wicked with it, 'cause he ain't go old school Nike
01:15 like that everybody don't know nothing about.
01:17 - So current rappers, nobody fucking with you?
01:19 - No.
01:20 My next essential, the Pat Schroeder Chromes.
01:26 See the reason why I love these is 'cause I been on it.
01:29 See what I'm saying?
01:30 Like I been on it.
01:31 I like to see the growth of when I wear something
01:33 and then I see it everywhere.
01:35 These pants right here, my pair be one of one.
01:37 So I get mine custom, so they not in the market.
01:40 And then like, if you ever see the resale value on Chrome,
01:43 it be like 20, 30,000 for the jeans.
01:45 So it's like, can't really go in the store
01:47 and buy 'em out the store.
01:47 So it's not accessible for everybody.
01:49 I did a Mike look for a little out of Miami
01:51 and I got a custom from Chrome Heart.
01:52 And so that's my people.
01:53 So you gotta have the Chromes and everybody don't got these.
01:56 You gotta watch them crosses too,
01:57 'cause them boys be caps.
01:58 See the crosses don't be together,
02:00 them crosses come peeling up and they be a certain shape.
02:02 They be having cap Chrome Heart.
02:03 You ain't tricking me.
02:04 I don't wear a mirror.
02:05 Nothing against Michael Merriam.
02:07 Shout out to him, he a great designer,
02:08 but I don't wear Michael Merriam.
02:09 I was wearing those in 2017 in the Bad & Boujee video.
02:12 You can go check the receipts.
02:13 I just be trying to be ahead of the curve a lot of times
02:15 with things that I do.
02:16 Mannequin challenge.
02:17 A lot of these caps be looking like mannequins,
02:19 but I'm gonna stay in my lane.
02:20 So I like pieces, that's all I'm saying.
02:22 I just like pieces.
02:23 It's a piece because it's not what everybody else is.
02:26 Everybody can't get to it.
02:27 And it's like understanding the brand
02:28 and what you love and like about the brand.
02:30 Stay away from what everybody else got.
02:33 All right, so the gloves, right?
02:35 It's always a good accessory for a fit.
02:38 Or especially when I'm performing,
02:39 I always like to have a glove on.
02:41 These right here, of course, inspired by Mike.
02:43 I'm just falling into the character of
02:45 making myself better as a solo act
02:47 and taking it there creatively-wise and making it about me.
02:51 First and foremost, it's my favorite artist of all time.
02:53 Got him tatted on me twice.
02:54 I got like a baby picture, like when we was so broke,
02:57 we had like books on the TV, like to hold the TV up.
03:00 And I'm like standing in front of that
03:01 with an unbuttoned shirt with a glove on,
03:04 like when I'm probably like five or six or something like that.
03:06 He just always been my favorite artist.
03:08 I just appreciated the art he put into himself.
03:10 It's like he don't care about nothing else.
03:12 He's just making himself better.
03:13 And it's kind of like my story of how I feel.
03:15 And like his album was "Off the Wall."
03:17 My album name is "Set It Off."
03:18 I'm staying in character for my album.
03:20 I don't want to talk too much on it,
03:21 but I got these custom made.
03:23 These right here is chrome, custom.
03:25 These is crazy, one-on-one.
03:27 Can't get these.
03:28 I be liking a lot of gloves.
03:29 It'd be like worker gloves,
03:30 like with the little knuckles on it,
03:32 or like this is a, this a worker glove,
03:33 but it look like crazy.
03:35 It'd just be a good accessory for the outfit.
03:36 Like if I throw these gloves on right now,
03:38 it's going to look good with what I got on.
03:40 And if I need to knock somebody, I'll just play.
03:42 See what I'm saying?
03:44 These right here just look hard.
03:45 Just a good accessory.
03:48 My next essential will have to be glasses.
03:50 Let me put these on, show you how good I look with them on.
03:53 I like the mysterious, you not see in my eyes.
03:57 That's why I always get looks.
03:58 I do like light glasses here and there.
04:00 It depend on the outfit for that.
04:01 But for the most part, I like dark glasses.
04:03 It's just, it's a need.
04:04 24 hours, I'm in the club with the glasses on.
04:06 In the interview, glasses on.
04:08 In the bathroom, glasses on.
04:10 I like older Versace glasses.
04:12 Those are always the best,
04:13 'cause I get that from watching "Master P" a long time ago,
04:15 like one of the guys who influenced me on.
04:17 Prada got these specific glasses.
04:19 I love, I keep wearing them.
04:20 They got like the Octavian side.
04:22 They just fit my face so perfect.
04:23 I like slim glasses.
04:24 I don't really like the big, wide lens glasses,
04:26 'cause it ain't gonna be fitting my face.
04:28 I lose glasses all the time.
04:30 And sometimes I be mad, 'cause sometimes you can't find them.
04:32 Like the Pradas, they didn't restock those
04:34 for like a month and a half, two months.
04:37 So I was just without them.
04:38 I always do glasses though.
04:39 It's just gonna happen.
04:40 So my next essential, bring the treasure chest out.
04:44 This ain't all of it.
04:45 This the jewelry.
04:47 This my jewelry case.
04:49 Turn that around for you.
04:50 I'm big on my Jesus pieces.
04:52 It's the rose gold with the big emerald sets in the head.
04:55 You gotta catch that right there.
04:56 Shout out my jeweler, Elliot, the best jeweler in the game.
04:59 You see how he put the pink stones
05:00 with the blue stones and the head cross?
05:02 Like he be making fine jewelry, and it just stand out.
05:06 Like this piece right here,
05:08 why do you got the yellow flower sets in there
05:10 with the pink and the blue, like a different chain?
05:12 It just hit like, just hit different.
05:14 You're gonna get your money worth.
05:15 This is early Elliot.
05:16 That's Ric Flair.
05:18 Woo!
05:19 This the Bando piece right here.
05:21 You know, big diamond, and it stand up.
05:23 You see, this is what Elliot do.
05:24 You can put screws in the back, the details.
05:26 He got spray paint in the house.
05:28 They say Migo gang Bando,
05:29 'cause this the Bando house right here.
05:32 Then look at this piece right here.
05:33 This the gold version.
05:34 Instead of it being all bust down,
05:36 it's like gold with the diamond and bells.
05:38 This is something Tiffany would make.
05:39 How they would, the style that they would go
05:40 not so bust down, and just the pear shapes
05:43 inside of the flowers is heavy.
05:45 You can hear it.
05:47 So like, even while I'm talking right now,
05:49 my chains ain't clacking,
05:50 'cause like he put the heavy weight into it.
05:52 And of course we got the three headed monster.
05:55 Migo gang for life.
05:56 That's just what it is.
05:58 End of the day.
05:59 He put the emeralds, he put our face, our actual faces.
06:01 We got diamonds in our glasses, earrings.
06:03 We got chains on the chain.
06:05 It's just disrespectful.
06:06 This shit cost a lot of money.
06:08 If I'm gonna spend my money,
06:09 I want my money to be sacred.
06:10 And then he, then also,
06:11 Elliot teach you about the jewelry.
06:13 So he gonna teach you,
06:14 he gonna give you the game on what the diamonds is
06:16 and what to look out for,
06:17 even when you shopping outside of him.
06:18 That's why I fuck with him.
06:19 Like I could call him and be like,
06:20 hey, he won't talk you out of it.
06:22 And be like, nah, come to my,
06:23 he'll be like, get this one, don't get that other one.
06:25 That other one don't look like it's woo, woo, woo.
06:27 Or like the cut on it, or how they prong,
06:29 or the setting of the diamonds
06:31 ain't really what they saying it is.
06:32 And if you do that to most other jewelers,
06:34 they gonna hate and be like, nah, come straight to me.
06:36 We came in like wearing ring on every finger.
06:38 When it was just gold, before it was diamonds,
06:40 we had multi chains.
06:42 Then like the length of the chain,
06:43 making it shorter and more presentable.
06:45 So it ain't like dangling, going everywhere.
06:47 It would definitely influence the game.
06:49 The double watches was a thing at a time.
06:51 You know what I'm saying?
06:52 We was just flooding it up.
06:53 And like, we have two watches, two bust downs on.
06:55 But now I switched up my whole thing.
06:57 I don't even wear bust downs.
06:58 It's plain Jane or nothing.
06:59 I want my watch to be worth something.
07:01 I ain't trying to lose value in it.
07:03 This is what I say on the rocks.
07:04 Yes, sir.
07:06 My bad.
07:07 I guess this was on the rocks too.
07:09 [upbeat music]
07:12 My next essential, my phone and my headphones.
07:14 You know the phone, I can never lose this phone
07:16 'cause it got my unreleased music in it
07:17 and a certain file on the phone.
07:19 That's a super important.
07:20 You know, family, I can be reaching my kids.
07:22 I got my brother's tape on the back of my screen.
07:25 I always remind him that we do it for him.
07:26 I like the Apple headphones
07:27 'cause it's like a fashion statement too.
07:29 I ain't gonna lie, like you can put these on with a fit
07:31 and it kind of look good with the fit.
07:32 And also like you could block all the noise out with these.
07:35 So that's why you gotta have that phone and headphones.
07:39 I feel like a lot of people do the in-ears
07:40 'cause they also talk.
07:41 See, I never talk on headphones.
07:42 I only listen to my music and like my mixes
07:44 and like the production of it in the headphone
07:46 'cause I would wanna know like how somebody
07:48 who might be working out got some headphones in.
07:50 It's always for music for me.
07:52 I might do a voice memo if like a producer sent me something
07:55 in the car and I play it real quick.
07:56 I might do a voice memo just to have the reference idea.
07:59 But other than that, it's mainly in the studio though.
08:01 Anybody I'm listening to,
08:02 I'm rocking with my boy Trey right now.
08:04 His album, "Draw You To A View" is shit hard.
08:05 Don, he draw the album, it was hard.
08:08 Pluto, he be going crazy.
08:09 D.O. draw the album, it was hard.
08:11 Yeah, same old, same old.
08:12 And I just been really focusing on my sound
08:13 and like trying to master mine
08:15 like to make sure it's that pressure, you know.
08:17 - Do you ever like leave your phone at home by accident?
08:19 Forget it.
08:19 - I don't never leave the phone at home.
08:20 I got a wife.
08:22 Can't do that, buddy.
08:23 I need to be able to pick it up.
08:24 I got kids, I got too many important,
08:26 it's too much business to be handling.
08:27 I never leave my phone.
08:28 You need that phone.
08:29 The wife shit's for real though.
08:32 So for my next essential,
08:33 it would have to be my big Hermes bag
08:36 where I carry the essentials in.
08:38 It's so big, I can put a whole outfit, shoes,
08:40 I can put my glasses, my gloves, everything in.
08:42 And also it's an army of T-bag.
08:44 So any outfit I put on, it go with it.
08:46 Black, white, green, purple, whatever.
08:49 It go with everything.
08:50 Inside of here, got an essential.
08:52 Inside the essential bag, big.
08:55 Watch your ass, boy.
08:56 Oh, I think it was like 30,000.
08:58 But it's staying with the Hermes bags,
09:00 all of them going value.
09:01 So right now it's probably 60,000 or 70,000 on the market.
09:04 They only give two bags a year to the client,
09:06 no matter who you are.
09:07 So you gotta, it's allocated bags.
09:10 So yeah, it's rare.
09:11 If I could catch it, then I'm gonna buy it for sure
09:13 'cause I know it's a piece
09:15 and it's also gonna go up in value.
09:16 So I'm not gonna never sell it,
09:17 but it's also, it's just like, it's a piece.
09:19 Like we was talking about earlier,
09:20 it's like, that's a piece.
09:22 The bag inside this bag is a piece too.
09:24 I'm gonna show you.
09:25 This the Chrome.
09:27 I think this from like the 90s.
09:29 If you gonna have a bag on, it gotta be a piece.
09:31 It has to be a piece.
09:32 Next essential lighter, gotta have a lighter.
09:37 And it got my brother Take on it.
09:38 You know my boy love to gas and blow on it.
09:41 Every time I light one up, it's like I'm blowing my boy.
09:43 So, I mean, you gotta, a big ain't gonna never fail you,
09:46 you know what I'm saying?
09:47 But I like this lighter specific 'cause it's custom.
09:49 And I got his picture on a lot of lighters like this.
09:52 Oh yeah, I like Grub.
09:53 I like, I got like Grubber Leaf,
09:54 extra the leaf and I wrap it up in a paper too.
09:56 'Cause see me, I'm a hard smoker.
09:57 So I like my blunts to kick and.
10:00 It's more healthy of course, the paper, straight paper,
10:02 but I prefer a Grubber.
10:04 My next essential, hygiene.
10:09 Fellas, you gotta be clean.
10:10 I wash my face with Stridex 'cause I got oily skin.
10:13 I hit the face up with the Stridex.
10:15 I don't wear lotion.
10:16 I only wear oil 'cause I'm smooth like that.
10:18 You see what I'm saying?
10:19 I got dark, beautiful, chocolatey skin.
10:21 So I like the skin to be moisturized and be looking good.
10:24 So I don't really rock with the lotion.
10:25 It'd be kind of too thick for me personally.
10:27 I do spray deodorant.
10:28 Sometimes the white deodorant be like all on my clothes.
10:31 I'm not with all that aquaphor.
10:33 Like I said, my skin, I don't play.
10:35 So if I don't have no oil, I'ma put some aquaphor.
10:39 Put some on right now.
10:40 And then it's skin tight right here.
10:43 So I get like hair bumps from like shaving my hair.
10:45 So when I get cut up, I gotta go skin tight,
10:47 dissolve and close my pores up so I be nice and clean.
10:50 And that's it right there for the hygiene.
10:52 My next essential, wall clippers.
10:56 You can never go wrong with wall clippers.
10:58 And me personally, I can get an ingrown
11:00 if my hair grow out too long.
11:01 My hair like be going curly.
11:02 So I always gotta cut my beard, my facial hair.
11:06 We go old school.
11:07 My granddaddy used to cut me with these.
11:08 You see what I'm saying?
11:09 These'll never fail you.
11:10 Make sure you clean them, you oil them up.
11:11 You take the screw loose when you need to.
11:13 Get up under that blade, keep that fade clean.
11:17 And that's how we coming, man.
11:18 I use them probably like three days, every three days.
11:20 'Cause I don't be wanting no ingrowns
11:22 and no bumps and shit.
11:23 So I just go and chop it off.
11:24 GQ, thank you for having me.
11:26 I'm out now, go get that.
11:28 Ya dig?
11:28 [MUSIC PLAYING]