Offset can’t stop, won’t stop. The “Ric Flair Drip” MC who was hospitalized after being shot on April 6 outside the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida says he will not slow down. In an interview on the Creators Inc. podcast on Thursday (April 23) — which host Andy Bachman said was recorded less than a week after the shooting — the first question was “how the hell did you even get here?”
“Gotta keep pushin’, like the Energizer Bunny, man,” said Offset, who was treated for non-life-threatening injuries following an altercation in the valet area of the hotel; Lil Tjay was later arrested on a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge in connection with the incident and posted a $500 bond on April 7.
“Keep this s–t pushin’,” he added with a running man arms pumping gesture. “We don’t got time to be slowing down.” Asked how he was able to both do a show and hop a plane to Los Angeles with an injury the host described as a “second b–thole,” ‘Set said it was easy: put a bed in his G5 private plane, “lay on that thing for six hours, go to sleep, you’re cool.”
Offset elaborated that he’d jetted to L.A. to work on his next album, which he’s hoping to drop in the next month or two, though no release date is set yet. “Getting creative … removing songs, making new songs, cuz all my s–t always be off life experiences. What happens in my real life I just put it in the music, because I’m not a social guy that just like to go live and do s–t like that,” he said. “I don’t do that that much, so I just put everything in my music. I’m just totally locked in through right now.”
Bachman continued to be blown away that the rapper performed, in a wheelchair, at the University of Arkansas’s Rowfest on April 11, just days after the shooting and then made it to the West Coast to keep working. “The show don’t never stop at the end of the day,” said Offset, who was hooked up to an IV vitamin infusion during the chat. “I was blessed enough to be able to still move. So I’m still moving … at the end of the day the grind don’t stop, bro. I ain’t want nobody to feel sorry for me. People get shot every day, bro. Like, I’m blessed. I can keep pushing, so why would I just sit down? “
When Bachman made a joke about whether Offset checked to make sure the bullet didn’t hit a different, essential private part, Offset assured him he was “straight on that,” and that the shot entered his hip.
Offset’s next scheduled performance is on May 9 at the Xperience Live Event Center in Orlando, Florida.
Watch Offset’s interview below.
