The album features 11 songs
A mere two months after releasing his widely acclaimed third solo album, Kiari, rapper Offset drops the surprise Halloween album, Haunted By Fame, via Motown Records. Urgent and raw, the 11-track set was recorded during Offset’s ongoing U.S. arena tour with YoungBoy Never Broke Again, and features appearances by tourmates YoungBoy, NoCap, and Lil Dump. The artists recorded together while on tour.
“I Heard” featuring YoungBoy captures the project’s live wire energy as the duo reunite over a woozy beat powered by chiming keys, funky guitar, blaring horns, and rubbery bass. Offset is in his element whether slowing it down for a melody or busting his signature triplets: “They don’t like me, I’m hated by many men / Get that bag and I don’t got too many friends.” YoungBoy slides between slurred singing, gruff rhymes, and a James Brown-like bark as he vows, “Hundred million I count it, then count again.”
With trunk-rattling production and flex after flex, the album finds Offset fired up, head down, and tapped into his abilities, letting loose off-the-cuff bars and hypnotic hooks with preternatural ease. Early cut “Free Pick” sets the mood as Offset spits, “I ain’t never been humble, I’m cocky / ten years, no FOMO, I’m poppin’.” “N.A.M.E.” offers a momentary reprieve as he and NoCap sing about trench trauma over a surprising folk-inflected score, but he’s back at it soon enough — especially on the bouncing Lil Dump team-up “Another Problem” and the cold-hearted, relentless closer “Headhunter.” Production comes courtesy of London Jae, Pooh Beatz, Go Grizzly, Mally Mall, Kaigoingcrazy, and more.
Haunted By Fame follows the August release of Kiara Deluxe, which included, among other songs, a BNYX Mix of the smash single “Bodies” featuring J.I.D. and sampling Drowning Pool’s iconic 2001 nü-metal hit. The deluxe version also arrived alongside a slew of minimal but impactful videos for Kiari‘s songs, including “Back in That Mode” featuring YFN Lucci, “Prada Myself” with Teezo Touchdown, “Favorite Girl” featuring Ty Dolla $ign, and “Pills,” Offset’s powerful, Nina Simone-sampling team-up with YoungBoy Never Broke Again. Those and others joined previously released clips for singles “Never Let Go” with John Legend and “Professional.”
With Offset’s birth name as its title, Kiari finds the Atlanta icon at the top of his game, more vulnerable than ever, swerving between introspective cuts and club records, and reflecting on his journey thus far over immersive production. The album was led by “Bodies,” which debuted on the Billboard Hot 100, became the No. 1 added song at urban radio.
- Free Pick
- Haunted By Fame
- I Heard featuring YoungBoy Never Broke Again
- No Sweat
- Okay, Okay
- Fashion Icon
- N.A.M.E. featuring NoCap
- Another Problem featuring Lil Dump
- Ya Digg
- No Regrets
- Headhunter
