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Offset

Red Room

Release date: 30th November 2018

From FATHER OF 4
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About This Track

Metro Boomin's production anchors Offset's debut solo single, a track that moves between manic materialism and the weight of survival. The rapper toggles registers, from the adrenaline of green Lamborghinis and paper tags to the sobering memory of his mother raising him alone, the brother serving fifteen years, the grandmother he mourns. The chorus circles back to the same few images, the cash, the magazines, the snitches, whilst the verses open out into something more candid. The song was released on Valentine's Day 2019 as the lead single from 'Father of 4', though it had briefly surfaced online the previous November before being pulled. Offset addresses his near-fatal car crash and the pain that opiates only mask, not erase. His mother's warning that the streetlights have stopped working becomes the song's most plainly stated anxiety, the sense that the old landmarks no longer guide anyone home.

"Red Room" is a track by Offset, from the album FATHER OF 4, released 30th November 2018. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Offset

Offset

Lyrics

Red Room

[Intro]

Woo

[Chorus]

I'm a maniac, go crazy for the cash (Hey, brazy)

Green Lamborghini, paper tags (Skrrt, skrrt)

Ridin’ through the city, thirty mags (Brrt, baow)

Niggas snitchin', they the police with no badge (Woo, woo, woo)

How I grew up, my mama was my dad (Mama, huh)

So when I blew up, I put her in a pad (Mansion)

I like to throw up when I think about the crash (Ugh, ugh)

Like marijuana, I hit the tree, I smell the gas (Hey, hey)

Lookin' at the sky, think about my past (Sky)

When I used to kick the door, shoot you for the cash (Boot, boot, boot)

Everybody hit the floor ’fore you make me mad (Floor)

Devil had a nigga soul livin' too fast (Soul)

Prayin' to the Lord, my soul to keep (Keep)

Controllin' me (Me), take a hold of me (Hold)

Bitches ain't shit, got exposed by E! ('Sposed)

So naive (So), cold in the streets (Streets)

[Verse 1]

Sleep on my feet (Feet)

Money turn homies to zombies, they eat (Zombies)

Miss my grandma, she was humble and sweet (Grandma)

I don't speak, let the check talk for me (Check, woo)

I can't sleep ’less the TEC in my reach (TEC)

Hit the dope, make me choke, make me wheeze (Choke)

Sip the dope, help the pain at ease (Hey)

Tryna get the money, ’fore it clean, it was dirty (Dirty)

Playin' football, hide the fire in my girdle (Fire)

Gettin’ locked up, runnin' round in a circle (Circle)

Brother caught fifteen like he did a murder (Murder, murder, murder, murder)

Now my whole family hurtin' (Hurtin', hurtin’, hurtin', hurtin')

Tryna see the light but we couldn't pull the curtain (Curtain, curtain, curtain, curtain)

Night time lurkin' (Night, night)

Mama said the streetlights, but they stopped workin' (Light, light, light)

Lookin' at my mama in her eyes (Mama)

Lookin' at me like a new person (New person)

She tellin' me I need to slow down (Slow down)

The pain don't go away with the Perky (Slow down)

That was when the rap wasn't working (Wasn't working)

Living in the trap, it's a circus (Trap circus)

See my grandma in a hearse (Grandma)

And Pistol P gone in the casket

Shots fired, nigga blasting (Brrt)

Cops, they arrive, start smashing (Woop, woop)

Opps, we shoot shots like the Mavericks (Opps)

Vaults, put the cash up and we stash it (Stash)

You flop, we doing numbers can't imagine (Hey)

Money tunnel when the roof panoramic (Skrrt)

Count the bundles 'til my hand start crampin' (Cramp)

I come with the drip, I need a napkin (Hey)

[Chorus]

I'm a maniac, go crazy for the cash (Hey, brazy)

Green Lamborghini, paper tags (Skrrt, skrrt)

Ridin' through the city, thirty mags (Brrt, baow)

Niggas snitchin', they the police with no badge (Woo, woo, woo)

How I grew up, my mama was my dad (Mama, huh)

So when I blew up, I put her in a pad (Mansion)

I like to throw up when I think about the crash (Ugh, ugh)

Like marijuana, I hit the tree, I smell the gas (Hey, hey)

Lookin' at the sky, think about my past (Sky)

When I used to kick the door, shoot you for the cash (Boot, boot, boot)

Everybody hit the floor 'fore you make me mad (Floor)

Devil had a nigga soul livin' too fast

Prayin' to the Lord, my soul to keep (Keep)

Controllin' me (Me), take a hold of me (Hold)

Bitches ain't shit, got exposed by E! ('Sposed)

So naive (So), cold in the streets (Streets)

[Verse 2]

I been crossed out by my own brother (Woo, woo)

Ain't no rules in the street, don't trust 'em

Ran it up and I had to go and bust it

Police 'bout to kick the door, now we gotta flush it

Ridin' on the backstreets thinkin' 'bout my brother

Prayin' that he come home to his loving mother

Can't believe it that I got it all out the gutter

FaceTime 'round three, Mike in a puddle

How I'm 'posed to take it? (How?)

Niggas dyin' 'round the same time I had a baby (Hoo)

Here go the operator (Operator)

Let the gang know Pistol ain't 'gon make it (He ain't gon' make it)

Now my mind goin' brazy (Brazy)

Got me feeling like I was the cause of the hatred (I'm the cause of it)

Holdin' the revolver with the laser (Boo)

They done killed my nigga, start the war, bring the nation (Brrt, brrt, brrt, brrt)

I got a boss situation (Boss)

Military bases when we travel 'cross the nation (Militant)

Double up the cup with maple (Hoo)

Abomination on your paper, I got acres

Black man when you walkin' and you're labeled

Beat the odds, they don't wanna see you greater

Eat you alive like a lion or a 'gator

Mamas crying 'cause the police shot they babies

They crooked, the motherland, they done took it (Crooked)

They take us and lock us up and throw the booklet (Take us)

Started rappin', then I shook it (Shook it)

I hate the fame, everybody keep on lookin' (Fame)

We done sold out Brooklyn (Sold out)

Man, I miss my grandma cookin' (Grandma)

Treat me like a don 'cause I'm gifted (Don, don)

I'ma run the money up, gotta go and get it (Hey)

[Chorus]

I'm a maniac, go crazy for the cash (Hey, brazy)

Green Lamborghini, paper tags (Skrrt, skrrt)

Ridin' through the city, thirty mags (Brrt, baow)

Niggas snitchin', they the police with no badge (Woo, woo, woo)

How I grew up, my mama was my dad (Mama, huh)

So when I blew up, I put her in a pad (Mansion)

I like to throw up when I think about the crash (Ugh, ugh)

Like marijuana, I hit the tree, I smell the gas (Hey, hey)

Lookin' at the sky, think about my past (Sky)

When I used to kick the door, shoot you for the cash (Boot, boot, boot)

Everybody hit the floor 'fore you make me mad (Floor)

Devil had a nigga soul livin' too fast

Prayin' to the Lord, my soul to keep (Keep)

Controllin' me (Me), take a hold of me (Hold)

Bitches ain't shit, got exposed by E! ('Sposed)

So naive (So), cold in the streets (Streets)

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Track details

From FATHER OF 4

2018
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Album
FATHER OF 4
FATHER OF 4
Offset
Release year
2018
  1. —Clout
  2. —Legacy
  3. —North Star
  4. —On Fleek
  5. —Quarter Milli
  6. —Don't Lose Me
  7. —How Did I Get Here
  8. —Wild Wild West
  9. —After Dark
  10. —Came a Long Way
  11. —Father of 4
  12. —Lick
  13. —Red Room
  14. —Tats on My Face
  15. —Underrated

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Production & Engineering

Writer
Metro Boomin, Offset, Southside
Lyricist
Offset
Composer
Metro Boomin, Southside
Producer
Metro Boomin, Southside
Vocals
Offset
Mastering Engineer
Colin Leonard
Mixing Engineer
DJ Durel
Programmer
Metro Boomin
Recording Engineer
Ethan Stevens
Video Colorist
Jaime O’Bradovich
Video Commissioner
Kevin Kloecker
Video Director
Айсултан Сеитов (Aisultan Seitov)
Video Director Of Photography
Xiaolong Liu
Video Editor
Miles Trahan
Video Executive Producer
Patrick Michael, Timur Smagulov
Video Producer
Yelzhan “JanniBiss” Bissenbayev, Yulia Safonova
Video Production Designer
Joseph Desrosiers Jr., Offset
Video VFX Artist
Frender, Iskander Utebayev
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