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GMFU

Album · Hip-Hop · 2026 · Motown Records · Just dropped! Listen now
In common street parlance, to get someone fucked up—as the title of Offset’s fourth solo album implies is the world’s view of him in this moment—the offending party is guilty of either misunderstanding the offended or outright taking them for a fool. The 18 tracks of GMFU do nothing if not affirm that this is not only a position Offset is comfortable with—it’s one he thrives from.

The album comes a year after his HAUNTED BY FAME mixtape, amid one of the more harrowing personal runs for a superstar MC in recent memory. Having endured the death of friend and former Migos member Takeoff, actively working through a divorce from onetime partner and mother of his children Cardi B, and healing from an April 2026 altercation at a Florida casino that left him shot in the leg, it’s safe to say that Offset has been through some things. But if we truly got him fucked up, he will rap his way back to prominence.

Things start off on “R4W” with a radical honesty of sorts, Offset enlisting the other surviving Migos member, Quavo, to address his shooting, and also the effect it might have had on his outlook on life: “Ready for war, I been praying for war,” he raps. He’s coming for the credit he’s yet to receive for his innovations in rap and fashion on “I Did,” and then aiming to prove that one can generate life-changing money and also retain a sense of self-reflection on the Quavo and Loe Shimmy collaboration “Why Not.”

If he’s resigned to seeing life through the eyeholes of a balaclava for the foreseeable future, though, he’s still very much interested in entertaining the fairer sex, as he does enthusiastically on “Back in That Mode II,” “One Way Flight,” “5 Star,” and Don Toliver collab “Every Night.”

He’s also every bit of the impossibly magnetic and always carefree hip-hop personality he spent more than a decade affirming himself to be. Across the whole of GMFU, in fact, the balm for Offset’s problems is often goodwill, money, or—as is the case in a song titled for his solution for domestic disputes, “Buy Ice”—both.

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