If Offset is seeking answers, Cee-Lo serves as guidance for the rapper’s search for mental freedom. Cee-Lo’s vocals carry out the end of the track, bringing everyone to church with a gospel delivery to his tone. The reverb effects added to his adlib in those bars alone echo the paranoia and fear he expresses throughout the song. “Crown me the King, addiction to lean/ But if I can’t sip it then mama, I can’t even sleep (yeah)/ Got skeletons all in my closet, I’m scared to peak (Scared to peak),” he raps. He makes his most honest revelation on the second verse about his struggles with opiates. Offset bears his soul on this record, speaking candidly about the hardships of leaving the streets of Atlanta while adjusting to the fame. “North Star” featuring Cee-Lo is Offset’s most open moment on the project. I can’t keep talkin’ about these diamonds, cars - because I go through real life all the time.” It’s thangs I was keepin’ in but I felt like, this album gotta be different because I’m grown. Some of my partners don’t even know that. “When I made that song, I just felt relieved, honestly,” he told The Breakfast Club about the project’s intro. Offset is seeking redemption from his children and loved ones, another clear throughline we’ll see in the project. Overall, he acknowledges his own faults and makes an oath on wax to be there for his kids, unlike his own father. He admits that he wasn’t sure if he was Kalea’s father. He opens up about being locked up at the time of his first son’s birth. Offset offers apologies to his kids for the mistakes he’s made. “ I am who you see/ What you hear is part of me/ But there's so much more to me/ So much more to be than just alive/ A son, a brother, a husband, a father ,” Rube says at the beginning of the track, essentially providing us with the thesis statement for Father Of 4įrom there, the revelations about Offset begin immediately, setting up the expectation for the rest of the album. Southside’s production maintains the grit of trap while Metro’s symphonic production adds an eloquence that parallels Offset’s rise from the bottom.įather Of 4 kicks off with the titular track featuring Big Rube, a first-generation member of the Dungeon Family. The OG opens up the project with an enchanting spoken word piece over Metro Boomin’s haunting string arrangement that builds up until Offset’s voice kicks in. The album, in a way, is Offset’s coming of age story from getting it out the mud to his current peak of mainstream success. These Southern roots provide a launching pad for Offset’s impassioned story-telling. Metro previously worked alongside the rapper and 21 Savage on Without Warning. They both have long-standing relationships with Offset. The production on Father Of 4 is predominantly handled by two architects of the current sound of trap, Metro Boomin and Southside, who make their debut as the production duo “SO ICEY BOYZ” on the project. Elements of blues are heard in his auto tune-laden harmonies, and there are appearances from two legendary Atlanta artists, Big Rube and Cee-Lo, adding deeper historical context to Offset’s Atlanta connection. The thing about Offset’s album, especially in comparison to Quavo and Takeoff, is that he embraces his Southern heritage to the fullest, clearly essential to his personal portrait. Offset cements himself as a solo entity while delivering the most honest and vulnerable offering from the whole Migos camp. He made it clear, even before the break-up, that he would give his story on his solo debut, and Cardi B has quickly become an integral part of his narrative and, more than that, his life.įather Of 4 is an introduction to Kiari Kendrell Cephus, the Gwinnett County, GA native who’s seeking redemption for his past actions, whether it is being an absentee father to his kids in order to provide for them or trying to make things right with his wife. Some speculated it was a publicity stunt for the project but it never ended up dropping - and, realistically, Offset’s story wouldn’t have been complete if it had dropped on time. Allegations that he cheated on Cardi B were rampant on the Internet, ultimately leading to their short-lived break-up in December, right before he was initially supposed to release his debut album, Father Of 4. In the past year, Offset’s been a magnet for controversy.
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