NEW MUSIC | OFFSET RELEASES HIS THIRD SOLO ALBUM KIARI

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INCLUDES FEA­TURES FROM JID, JOHN LEGEND,

YOUNG­BOY NEV­ER BROKE AGAIN, TY DOLLA $IGN, KEY GLOCK, YFN LUCCI, TEEZO TOUCHDOWN

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Today, GRAMMY® Award-nom­in­ated, multi-plat­in­um super­star Off­set releases his highly anti­cip­ated third solo album, KIARI, out now on Motown Records. With his birth name as its title, the 18-song set finds the Atlanta icon at the top of his game, as open and vul­ner­able as ever, flex­ing and reflect­ing on his jour­ney thus far over immers­ive pro­duc­tion fit for an arena. Befit­ting his status as a cul­ture-mov­ing force, Off­set is joined by an incred­ible array of guest artists bring­ing their A‑game, includ­ing JID, Gunna, Young­Boy Nev­er Broke Again, John Legend, Ty Dolla $ign, Key Glock, YFN Lucci, and Teezo Touch­down. Listen to KIARI HERE. KIARI explores the dif­fer­ent sides of Off­set and shows his diversity as an artist that’s able to seam­lessly weave between records for the club and thought-pro­vok­ing intro­spect­ive cuts from his life.

“KIARI is me. I chal­lenged myself as an artist and really put it all into the music. I took my time put­ting this pro­ject togeth­er,” said Off­set, “I know who I am, and I hope the world gets to under­stand who KIARI is through this album.”

Along­side the album, Off­set dropped visu­al­izers for each track with John Legend and Tezzo Touch­down on their respect­ive col­lab­or­a­tion records. Off­set also released the music video for the track “Dif­fer­ent Spe­cies” with Gunna. This con­tin­ues the Atlanta duo’s cel­eb­rated his­tory of col­lab­or­a­tion — see Offset’s “Style Rare” and Gunna’s “pra­da dem.” “Dif­fer­ent Spe­cies” is a lush cut about shar­ing the good life with someone spe­cial. With aqueous tones, fin­ger-picked gui­tar, and skit­ter­ing drums, “Dif­fer­ent Spe­cies” feels like a fantasy unfold­ing as Off­set describes the object of his affection.

Ahead of KIARI, Off­set unveiled a mind-bend­ing cine­mat­ic trail­er of a ther­apy ses­sion allud­ing to the dif­fer­ent sides of KIARI that make the artist Off­set. The trail­er and the visu­al­izers released for each track are dir­ec­ted by SheShe Pendleton and Mikey Rare. Earli­er this week, Off­set hos­ted an intim­ate yet wild Boil­er Room party pre­view­ing KIARI tracks at New York hot­spot Jean’s for his fans and had Key Glock and Fan­um in attendance.

KIARI sounds as luxe as Offset’s life­style thanks to majest­ic pro­duc­tion from the Hon­or­able C.N.O.T.E., Lon­don on da Track, Lon­don Jae, Fri­dayy, FNZ, Oz, and Boo­g­zDaBeast, among oth­ers. With orches­tral flour­ishes, mood-set­ting melod­ies, unex­pec­ted instru­ment­a­tion, and dis­tinct­ive samples ran­ging from Nina Simone to INOJ to Drown­ing Pool, the beats are big enough to sup­port his dynam­ic bars — the vis­ion of a man, fath­er, and son, who came from noth­ing, walked through fire, and isn’t wast­ing anoth­er moment of the life he’s made for himself.

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Rishma

Edit­or / PR Con­sult­ant at No Bounds
Rishma Dhali­w­al has extens­ive exper­i­ence study­ing and work­ing in the music and media industry. Hav­ing writ­ten a thes­is on how Hip Hop acts as a social move­ment, she has spent years research­ing and con­nect­ing with artists who use the art form as a tool for bring­ing a voice to the voiceless.

About Rishma

Rishma Dhaliwal has extensive experience studying and working in the music and media industry. Having written a thesis on how Hip Hop acts as a social movement, she has spent years researching and connecting with artists who use the art form as a tool for bringing a voice to the voiceless.