Rapper Offset visits WIRED to answer his most searched for questions on Google. When did Offset start rapping? Where did Offset get his name from? When is Offset's album dropping? What was Offset's first song? What is Offset's fashion style? Offset answers all these questions and more on the WIRED Autocomplete Interview.
Director: Justin Wolfson
Director of Photography: Brad Wickham
Editor: Ron Douglas
Talent: Offset
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Talent Booker: Jenna Caldwell
Camera Operator: Chloe Ramos
Gaffer: David Djaco
Sound Mixer: Sean Paulsen
Production Assistant: Sonia Butt
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Assistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow
Director: Justin Wolfson
Director of Photography: Brad Wickham
Editor: Ron Douglas
Talent: Offset
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Talent Booker: Jenna Caldwell
Camera Operator: Chloe Ramos
Gaffer: David Djaco
Sound Mixer: Sean Paulsen
Production Assistant: Sonia Butt
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Assistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow
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00:00What's happening?
00:00It's your boy Offset, and this is Wired.
00:02Autocomplete Interview.
00:03["Wired"]
00:07Really giving out sauce and seasoning now.
00:10They gonna get the chewing.
00:11["Wired"]
00:17When did Offset start rapping?
00:20It was eighth grade.
00:21I didn't know what I was doing.
00:22I was trash, too.
00:23Went to my nine.
00:24My first rap name was Young Gutter, too.
00:26Everybody don't know that, too.
00:28Curb.
00:30Young Gutter.
00:32Where did Offset get his name from?
00:34It used to be this artist, I ain't gonna say his name.
00:36Very inspirational to Atlanta.
00:38He came out with the mixtape,
00:39and ever since then, I just ran with Offset.
00:42I feel like it matches me,
00:43because you know what I'm saying?
00:44It's like, you don't want to piss me off,
00:45but I could be on set.
00:46I'm just playing, I'm just playing.
00:48When is Offset album dropping?
00:50It will be this year.
00:52It'll be this year, it'll be this year, it'll be this year.
00:54It's coming, it's on the way.
00:56I can't give too many details, but it's on the way.
00:58How many tattoos does Offset have?
01:02I don't even know.
01:03I probably got, I know it's over like 100, though.
01:05What's the most recent?
01:06It'd be my take off of my back.
01:08That's the most recent one.
01:09Got my whole back covered with tape.
01:14What was Offset's first song?
01:17My first song was Bad Dog.
01:18Do you hear that song, you're a much different rapper now
01:20than you were back then?
01:21Yeah, way different, totally different.
01:23I'm way better than that.
01:24That was in the beginning stages.
01:25What is Offset's most popular song?
01:28My most popular song is Riff La Drip.
01:30It got the most strings of all my songs.
01:32Classic joint.
01:33Did you bet that it might've been your most popular
01:35as you were releasing it?
01:36Nah, I hated the song releasing it.
01:38I didn't like the song, and it ended up being the biggest.
01:40It's crazy.
01:41What don't you like about it?
01:42Oh, I love it now.
01:43When I first did it, it just was like the West Coast beat.
01:46Like the vibe was, when I was recording it,
01:48it wasn't like a serious record.
01:49I was just like bouncing on it, playing around with it.
01:51Ended up being one of them joints, though.
01:53What was Offset's favorite performance?
01:56My favorite state was Boston,
01:58because I wasn't expecting Boston to be so,
02:01it was going so crazy.
02:02Shout out to Boston.
02:03When I went on tour in Boston, it surprised me.
02:05Like, they was lit.
02:06What does Offset do for fun?
02:08I record, I buy clothes, I get dressed.
02:12You know what I mean?
02:12That's what I do for fun.
02:13I get fly.
02:17Offset, early life.
02:19Young King from the North.
02:21And I was getting fly back then, too.
02:22In a different style, different way.
02:24I was always trying to figure it out early.
02:26Probably about when I was about 10,
02:27I knew I wanted to be, have a million dollars.
02:30I wanted to change the narrative of the family, you know?
02:32So I shot for my dreams.
02:34Does Offset have kids?
02:35Yes, I have six beautiful kids.
02:37Could you describe your parenting style?
02:39I'm the cool dad to not play with.
02:42I lay the law, but I do it in my own way.
02:44I never want my kids to not trust me,
02:46or not feel like they can holler at me.
02:47I feel like they'll holler at me for anybody else.
02:49You gotta give them instruction,
02:52but you gotta also make them feel comfortable, too,
02:54at the same time.
02:55How many shoes does Offset have?
03:00I done lost count now, man.
03:01Last count I took, though, it was like 3,000.
03:03It might be like 3,200 now.
03:05I collect shoes because I remember when we was younger,
03:07that was a big thing to me growing up,
03:08to me and my friends.
03:09They have the J's, we used to share shoes.
03:11So when I got me some money,
03:13I got all the shoes that I couldn't get back in the day.
03:16Offset jewelry collection.
03:18Various pieces of emeralds, baguettes.
03:20We got Rolex, we got Pateks.
03:22I love watches more than everything.
03:23I'm getting out of the stage and wearing the big jewelry.
03:27I rather classic and cool,
03:28but I want my watch to be a big dog.
03:30So you understand when I walk in the room,
03:31the presence is there with the watch.
03:33Like today, I have on the 2024.
03:36Stainless, rose face, skeleton, Audemars Piguet.
03:39Only people I done seen with it
03:41is Michael Jordan and Serena Williams.
03:43That's what I like in the jewelry, watches.
03:45Was Offset in Whitney Houston video?
03:47Yeah, I was in Whitney Houston video.
03:48I was a youngin', you know what I'm saying,
03:49doing my thing.
03:50I always had a bright future.
03:52If you see me, I got a lot of cameos.
03:53Now looking back at it, it was like a sign,
03:56early sign of me letting me know
03:57like I'm gonna be that guy later on.
04:02Who is Offset's song with?
04:04As of right now, I don't know.
04:05Shout out to my last people I brought on tour
04:07was Skilla Baby, Schleazy, Mango.
04:10As of right now, I don't know.
04:11I don't got it set up yet.
04:12I'm focusing on making the album right now
04:14so then I can go and tour off the album.
04:16It's gonna be somebody lit though.
04:17We're gonna definitely make something happen.
04:19Who influenced Offset?
04:21Michael Jackson, James Brown, Andre 3000
04:24coming out of Atlanta, being able to, you know,
04:26get outside the box and get on his own type of vibe.
04:30It's the rich takers, the greatest, the icons.
04:32That's who I look up to and do my research on.
04:34Who does Offset want to record with?
04:36I'm trying to get a song with Michael Jackson.
04:38Somehow, someway.
04:39Even if it's just some ad-libs, you feel what I'm saying?
04:41Even if it's just some background,
04:43some little harmonizing, I wouldn't have it like
04:45into his vibe.
04:46I'd produce a beat around his vocals.
04:48That's a dream of mine.
04:49That'd be hard.
04:51What is Offset's recording process?
04:54Me and my engineer, couple of my close friends,
04:56always a producer.
04:58I would love for a producer to be in there to cook with me
05:00because I feel like when you got a producer in there,
05:02y'all go off each other energy.
05:03I like to record a lot of times early on in the day.
05:06I used to record real late at night.
05:08I feel like earlier, your mind be a little bit more fresh.
05:10You might not get so repetitive off of tiredness.
05:12Most of it written or not much?
05:14Nah, I don't write nothing.
05:15I just go off of the vibe.
05:16So I plug in.
05:17After each bar, whatever come to my mind,
05:18I say it a couple of times.
05:19The one that I like that I keep
05:21and then go to the next bar.
05:22What is Offset's favorite collaboration?
05:25Recently it's Den of Tears because it dropped
05:27almost a year ago and to this day I see it in movies.
05:30I see it every day when I'm walking around.
05:32Every day, somewhere, somehow I see the pieces
05:34that I created and it means something to me
05:36because I know I did it right and people rock with it.
05:40What is Offset's fashion style?
05:42My fashion style is like, it ain't no specific style.
05:44I feel like I can go any which way.
05:46I'll stay on a vibe for a little bit
05:47and then I like to move on and just keep switching.
05:49I feel like fashion don't really have no statement
05:52or no sentence to it.
05:52Whatever you feel like look good on you, look good on you.
05:55Describe your vibe now.
05:56My vibe now is like archive pieces.
06:01I'm putting on nothing but pieces.
06:02Today I have a Vivienne Westwood original.
06:06This is the piece right here.
06:07You gotta find this.
06:08This is something, this is back in the day.
06:10It's a little old.
06:12But it's worth a lot though.
06:13So are my pants too.
06:14These are Balenciaga leather.
06:17I bought these probably like 2015
06:20and I found them in my Atlanta house,
06:22like just sitting around.
06:23What is next for Offset?
06:25Film, music, more albums, more touring.
06:29Super on the film side.
06:30I shot all my videos for my last album.
06:32That's something that's becoming a passion for me
06:34because I feel like getting the vision across
06:36is the easiest way to tell a story.
06:38What part do you play in the music video production?
06:41So what I do is I direct the video
06:43and then I hire everybody around me,
06:45which is people that I've previously shot with before.
06:47Like if I shoot a video with you
06:49and then I feel like you're a great AD,
06:51I get your personal contact
06:53so then we can personally work together.
06:55And I have my own production company.
06:57What's up?
06:58This is your boy Offset.
06:59That was all the boys.
07:00You know what it is.
07:01We come with some new drip, new moves,
07:02new music, new visuals, everything new on the way.