Offset stopped by Genius to discuss his hit “SAY MY GRACE,” which has been streamed over 43 million times on Spotify to date! The hot track also features fellow MC Travis Scott and is on Offset’s latest project SET IT OFF. On today’s episode of Verified, the Atlanta native talks about the pain of losing so many close friends and family.
“In my prayers there has been several times, when I know I’m not supposed to, but I did ask to maybe just get some clear understanding to try and figure out. I never really got the understanding but you still gotta move forward. I just still feel like they still right here with me.”
“In my prayers there has been several times, when I know I’m not supposed to, but I did ask to maybe just get some clear understanding to try and figure out. I never really got the understanding but you still gotta move forward. I just still feel like they still right here with me.”
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00:00 What made me and Trav collaborate, I think, is first and foremost, we brothers.
00:03 I feel like this one just caught him.
00:05 I'll never forget, he was just staring at the wall, just bobbing his head, and then
00:08 he went straight in.
00:09 I would describe Save My Grace like the Last Supper.
00:19 Accepting my blessings, but also acknowledging the trials and tribulations that come with
00:23 the blessings.
00:24 And I wanted to be kind of vulnerable to things that's really on my mind and how I walk around
00:29 thinking.
00:30 What had me feeling the way when I sat at bars, being missing on the music scene, not
00:50 having no new product out.
00:51 And you know, I played the backstage and had not dropped in a minute, and I still let everybody
00:55 do their thing.
00:56 But I'm here now, motherfuckers.
00:59 You're a villain to people, maybe by the decision you're making for you, but it be the best
01:11 decision you made for you, so you're a hero in your own world.
01:13 You know, it was a real tragic situation that happened in my life.
01:31 Losing my brother to bullets, or I found my brother to take.
01:34 But I had more bros, other brothers that I done lost, to the same thing.
01:39 My grandma passed from cancer right before I was able to make it, and she was the one
01:43 telling me I wasn't going to do it.
01:44 When she passed, I was like, in and out of jail, and getting in trouble, but she still
01:48 believed that I'd be able to do this.
01:50 When I sat at those bars, it was just me being real and being vulnerable about, like in my
01:54 prayers, there's been several times where I know I'm not supposed to, but I did ask
01:58 to maybe just get some clear understanding or try to figure it out.
02:00 But I never really got the understanding, but you still got to move forward, and I just
02:04 still feel like they still right here with me.
02:06 Yeah, look at my baby, look at her.
02:18 She's a star.
02:19 Everybody knows that.
02:20 I'm not stamping that, I stand behind that.
02:22 We both let each other be artists, and we both let each other be stars.
02:25 We ain't like limiting each other and getting in the way.
02:28 With music, it always naturally happen.
02:29 I never get on her on subjects, she never get me on subjects, because it's still art
02:33 that we got to display to the world.
02:34 And I just think that's what works.
02:36 It ain't no competition with us at all.
02:38 It's always pushing each other to be better than what we is before.
02:42 Getting away from haters and the negative vibe, my spirit was cleansing.
02:54 Just being able to clear that out and being able to walk a straight path is better than
02:57 anything.
02:58 Not isolating myself just on some, I ain't fucking with everybody.
03:01 It's just more like to be a better self for me, get away from all the bullshit.
03:05 R.I.P. my brother Virgil.
03:17 The last memory I got of my dog is on.
03:19 I was in Paris for Paris Fashion Week and I called him.
03:22 And you know he the creator of the LV at the time.
03:25 Super busy, the biggest, hottest brand going crazy, couldn't nobody touch him.
03:28 And he always would answer my phone call, bro.
03:30 And when he did come back to Paris, he brought me to the Louis, to his office and was giving
03:34 me sample pieces in front of the staff.
03:37 And I know he wasn't really opposed to, but he understands the culture.
03:40 I still ain't even wore the pieces because right after that, unfortunately he passed
03:44 away.
03:45 Now that he's gone, he was seeing stuff and giving me hints.
03:47 And I ain't really catch it then, telling me if you challenge yourself to be more creative,
03:51 I promise you'll get to a better place.
03:53 So shout out my brother Virgil, man.
03:55 Watch when I step, Mary come my belt.
03:57 Angel on my shoulder, but the devil on her left.
03:58 I got a million out of a mil from a shelf.
04:00 I do it alone, I own myself.
04:02 Niggas stay home for you, don't get left.
04:04 Niggas playing crazy, hit below my belt.
04:06 I'ma get the bag, do the show myself.
04:07 Do that shit again, I had to show myself.
04:10 As an artist, you want to always make sure you own your business.
04:12 I had to get on my business and stand on my business, make sure my business was good so
04:15 that my kids could eat later on.
04:17 When I was saying I own myself, not literally like owning things.
04:20 It was just like being in my own bag is off set.
04:22 Like this is me.
04:23 This is anything, I'ma win, I'ma stand on it.
04:25 It was important to be vulnerable because a lot of people go through similar situations
04:30 and putting emotions into songs makes songs more relatable.
04:34 Not just talking about flexing and like the good things in life.
04:37 Talk about the real things that happen in life that may put you at a stop or might be
04:41 a speed bump in the road.
04:43 And to also motivate them to keep going.