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Offset and JID pulled up to the Genius office to break down their track “Bodies.” The song flips Drowning Pool’s 2000s hit of the same name and is set to be on Offset’s upcoming album Kiari. On today’s episode of Verified, the Atlanta natives talk about the chaotic way the track came together, testing out music in the strip club, JID weaving his love for sports into his bars, repping their city, and more!
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00:00We finna make a record.
00:01We goddamn take this shit serious.
00:02This shit is in blood, you know what I'm saying?
00:03Like, niggas really believe in this shit and believe in ourselves, so every time bruh
00:06come to me about something, it's always like, all right, boom, wanna hear you out, wanna
00:09goddamn get my perspective on this shit, and then we goddamn collab on it, make sure this
00:13shit work.
00:14It's really, really be simple.
00:15So that's why I like working with bruh, because it's just straight up like, let's do it, bruh.
00:18One goal.
00:19Same thing for me.
00:20We just be focused on one goal, and at the end of the day, we still take it so serious
00:23that the critiquing is worth it, because when it come out, it's a perfection.
00:26It's a perfect thing, a perfect product.
00:28We from the same spot.
00:29So we understand each other, like, we in this game trying to punish everybody, like,
00:33punish.
00:34So it ain't, it's no mercy on nobody, so everything gotta be hard.
00:37Everything gotta be, we won't just put stuff out.
00:39Nah, we gotta make sure everything lined up.
00:48So I had cooked up this song probably like a year before we and him got to working on
00:51the record.
00:52I think I was mad about something, so my energy was already high, so I just took it out on
00:55the track.
00:56I had to remind folks where I was coming from and where I had came.
00:58We had a festival in Hunza, China, and the Olympics was going on.
01:02Now, you think about it, the whole situation was hard, because boom, got off, doing the
01:05show.
01:06Thousands of people.
01:07We get back to the bar.
01:08We sitting at the bar.
01:09Sitting drinking a hibiki, some Japanese whiskey.
01:11We just chilling.
01:12Yeah.
01:13And then, hey, you know I got students in the room now.
01:17He come yelling me, goddamn like, nigga, we doing this shit tonight.
01:20I'm like, I'm already lit, but whatever, whatever.
01:22Pulled a beat up after we done watching the Olympics and shit.
01:24We ain't had no weed, so I ain't hit the cigarette.
01:26I don't smoke cigarettes, so I got light hitting this bitch.
01:28I'm goddamn taking shots.
01:29So Hennessy, it was just vibes, bro.
01:31It was dark when we walked in that bitch, and by the time we left, niggas, broad daylight.
01:35You know what I'm saying?
01:36I just remember the energy.
01:37Niggas just popping it like, nah, bro, go here with it.
01:39Actually, we went back and forth on the first one.
01:40We went back and forth on the first one.
01:41On the first one.
01:42Actually, it was way different on the first one, for real.
01:43Yeah.
01:44Three, four months after that.
01:45He wanted to change the verse, and I was like, man, hell nah, don't change the verse
01:48hard at heart.
01:49He was like, nah, I'm telling you, bro, this ain't the one.
01:51Then we went back and forth about that for a little minute, then he changed it.
01:54Then when he sent it back, I'm like, ooh, yeah, this motherfucker hard.
01:56Then I'm telling him, like, you rapping too long, bro, you got to cut like four
01:59bars or something.
02:00He was like, man, hell nah.
02:01We went back and forth about three, four days arguing on the phone.
02:03I ain't gonna hold you.
02:04Just like, bro, you sure, bro?
02:05Nah, fuck that.
02:06Niggas, this my song.
02:07B got down.
02:08We just going back and forth.
02:09I'm like, bro, trust me, bro.
02:10And it just came out.
02:11Came out together.
02:12Came out first.
02:13And I just, I flew the bridge of the, let the body sit the floor.
02:16That's the hook.
02:17I just flew that, because it wasn't at the end of his beat.
02:19I just changed that part of the beat and flew it at the end, and that was the hook.
02:22And that's what it, and Murder, She wrote.
02:23Murder, She motherfucking wrote, for real.
02:32How does it feel to look back at the times when I didn't have money?
02:35I always look back at it because I was more hungry.
02:38It reminds me not to be comfortable, because I once not had it before.
02:41Sometimes you just gotta, you get so far up, you gotta come back down to your roots and
02:45find out who you are, your identity for who you are as a person and as an artist.
03:01Magic & Honest is a strip club, very popular in Atlanta, you know what I mean?
03:11Really like the forefront of Atlanta strip club.
03:14Magic was a place that I always, coming up as an artist, wanted to get my music played in.
03:18Like, before it was all the internet streaming and all that, like, you had to get your record.
03:22A lot of records broke out of Magic City, because the vibe is a total different, like,
03:26strip club experience I've ever been from anywhere else.
03:28You got women swinging from up top. Swinging, they doing flips, they holding on to each other.
03:32Like, that's just Atlanta culture, like the strip club.
03:34Like, that's where you go pop it, that's where you go shine at, that's where you go spin some music.
03:38I still do it now, like, on a night that ain't too poppin', go rock with a DJ and just hear what my music sound like in the club.
03:43You know what I mean? Versus in a car.
03:45For me, it was the groundwork and it was like an accomplishment to get my song played in.
03:48They see all the glist, the glams, maybe the drama, maybe the now set, you know what I mean?
03:59But, like, come a long way.
04:01I'ma still go a long way and it's just like it was a reminder.
04:04I feel like they forget because they see all the glist, the glams and the story or whatever's going around surrounding me that I came from the bottom.
04:09You know James Bond, you know, he pulling up Porsche. I feel like I'm James Bond. It goes.
04:14Then when I said the crayon part, it's like I got choices, I got different colors. It's like a Skittles pack when you pull up to the garage, you know?
04:27When I'm talking about buying like Tyson, I'm talking about style. I'm talking about aura. I'm talking about flows.
04:32Nobody specific. It's just like, if you know, you know.
04:35You know what I mean? I feel like I do lead the way a lot of times in fashion and like flowing on music and like the way I attack a record.
04:41So I'm just popping my shit on how I feel like they biting out here.
04:50Yeah, I do listen to Bobby Brown. My mom and them grew up listening to him.
04:54I have similar traits from him in his career. He was in a group. He went solo. I went solo.
04:59He was in a different situation with a higher up too and it's like similar situations.
05:03So I just felt like the bar just was something for me.
05:06But Prerogative is his song too. That's one of his smash hits.
05:10And it's like, if I catch you, I catch ass.
05:12When you break it down, you just making a bag off your voice. The words you saying. The words you putting out to the world.
05:25Inspiring or whatever it is. At the end of the day, make a living from that.
05:28Over there, you got the princess and they like to show out. You know what I mean?
05:32I'm going to show out for them and they show out for me.
05:44When I heard it, I knew it was a special record.
05:46And so when I did the hook, I just let that lead and I really ad-libbed the hook.
05:50But I turned my ad-lib, since it was already a part of the sample, I turned my ad-libs up so it could stand out if it was a hook.
05:54You know what I mean? So it's like tricking the mind.
05:56But it's like, I performed it for the first time maybe seven or eight days after in Milwaukee, the festival.
06:01Soon they came on, I could just hear them chanting,
06:05That's how I knew I got them. I got them with this one.
06:07Shout out to Johnny Poole, man. They didn't give me a hard time with this record.
06:10They believed they liked the record. They respected what I did to the record.
06:13And it was a go since then.
06:26Yeah, I dream of him. I often have a lot of memories and dreams too.
06:30But when I said that, I meant that though.
06:32He didn't exactly say go up, but he was just like, it ain't over with.
06:35You got stuff to do.
06:36Get focused type vibe.
06:38With him passing, legacy is everything.
06:40So gotta hold that.
06:42It's a high expectation. Can't lose.
06:44So it'd be like a push too. He's like, it's a push too.
06:47Alright, be my brother though.
06:56I quit the remarks.
06:57Talking about picking up a blitz is like a quarterback play.
07:00You know what I'm saying?
07:01You pick up a blitz and you're able to pick the defense apart because you saw the blitz,
07:03throw the ball quick.
07:04That comes from my background in football and sports and stuff.
07:06So I always throw references in.
07:08Say somebody like push through coke bars.
07:10I do rap like athlete.
07:11Like sports bars. You know what I'm saying?
07:13It's like the same thing.
07:21My flow, it's natural. It just come natural to me.
07:23I just try to write how I feel.
07:25I don't even know the technicalities of it sometimes.
07:27I'm just writing.
07:28So when I learn like, oh, I did that?
07:30Cool. Like whatever.
07:31I would say it's like a checklist for hip hop purists.
07:34It's little boxes that I like, hey, you might need to throw something in there.
07:37But it's not always like intentional.
07:38Sometimes it'll just come out without me thinking about trying to do it.
07:41Or sometimes it's like, ah, check your little hip hop purist box.
07:44You know what I'm saying?
07:45It was kind of like a horror film almost.
07:55Trying to depict it like that.
07:56You know what I'm saying?
07:57Like the bodies hit the floor and then it's aligning.
07:58Like some hood, like horror shit.
08:00Which involves like, okay, got your everyday life guns and shit.
08:04But cops behind you too and all of that shit.
08:06It's just like a bunch of shit going on.
08:15Why didn't you start shooting at Ricky?
08:17That's funny.
08:18Cause I seen some annotations of people.
08:20What they thought I was talking about when I was like referencing Ricky.
08:23Which is, you're not correct.
08:24I was just referencing Ricky.
08:26No running back and forth.
08:27Clapping at the 50.
08:28It's another sports reference.
08:29Cause you know Ricky was running back in What's Her Name 2.
08:31Yeah.
08:32And then you know the movies, The Warriors and all that stuff.
08:33It was just all visual.
08:34I don't even think it was like, this part right here wasn't that layered.
08:37But I think it was more like a visual experience.
08:45I think the three letters line, just because it's so simple as hell.
08:47It's just like, I'm J.I.D. babe, I'm just three letters.
08:49Like it's super cool.
08:51It kind of gives you like, oh, another like playing to people be saying, is it J.I.D. or J.I.D.?
08:56I kind of say J.I.D. and J.I.D. in every song.
08:58Cause it's like they on the same level.
09:00That's like one of the favorite lines I see people quoting or hitting me in the comments
09:03saying like, oh, just three letters.
09:05I don't know.
09:06I think it's cool.
09:10Me saying like I'm bound to beat the level, that's just like a tale of faith.
09:13You know what I'm saying?
09:14Like manifesting shit.
09:15That's how I'm even in this chair right now.
09:16You know what I'm saying?
09:17Just manifesting and working towards it.
09:19I'm not even like a real, like a clout whore or nothing like that.
09:22I really be chilling.
09:23I'm trying to get my stories off, make music.
09:25My journey has been like bullheaded on some focus shit.
09:28I come to jeans, but on interviews, I don't know.
09:31I'm indifferent about that shit.
09:32But it's more important to me like being who I am and just telling my stories and just
09:35everything else, it could be what it is.
09:37All about the effort.
09:38I'm putting in legwork.
09:39Early in the morning counting money somebody had hurt.
09:41Nigga being funny.
09:42We can put him in the red shirt.
09:43Five in your chest.
09:44Now you're Ant-Man Edwards.
09:46When I said like red shirt, Ant-Man played at UGA.
09:49He had number one when he played at UGA.
09:51Now he got number five.
09:52I was like, ah, nobody gonna care.
09:55Shit.
09:56And then I felt like when he was in high school, I judged the dunk contest he was in.
09:59Me and Seth, like being from Atlanta, I like to, I don't know, reference everything Atlanta,
10:04as much stuff as I can because I just like put on for the city.
10:07So that's a great superstar in the league.
10:09You know what I'm saying?
10:10You got two niggas from Atlanta making music.
10:11I was like, let me just go ahead and throw him this.
10:13I don't know.
10:14I know other people use like Ant-Man bars, but I think this is like one of the harder ones
10:16because it was like simple, straight to the point, but it's just like, ah.
10:19And it's right on when the beat started doing the thing.
10:21You know what I mean?
10:22So it was just hard.
10:31I feel like manifestation, me even saying it in the verses on some like delusional,
10:36like belief in yourself.
10:37You know what I'm saying?
10:38It's like, oh no, this is going to happen.
10:39Because sometimes you sound crazy before you actually do what you say you're going
10:43to do to a person, to whoever.
10:45I just always believe in that.
10:46Like boom, I'm doing this.
10:48I'm finna work them move.
10:49Did one, two.
10:50Goddamn.
10:51I'm believing them.
10:52Pray on them.
10:53Work on them.
10:54Goddamn.
10:55Make that shit happen.
10:56Swap rods.
10:57I'm bringing the switch.
10:58So switch seats.
10:59Mob ties.
11:00He coming with keys.
11:01He switch beats.
11:02Cops firing.
11:03Niggas is ratting and eating cheese.
11:04Another day on the east.
11:05Make them fall to their knees.
11:06Switches.
11:07Like some Atlanta, like some modified like gun shit, gun talk.
11:09It's like, the way they shoot is like, you don't know where this shit going to go
11:12because it could be really bad.
11:13So switch.
11:14So switch seats.
11:15Mob ties.
11:16He coming with keys.
11:17He switch beats.
11:18Simple.
11:19You know what I'm saying?
11:20And then Alicia Keys.
11:21Swiss beats.
11:22And then it connects to like the rats eating cheese.
11:24All of it.
11:25It's kind of connected in, I don't know, just a clusterfuck of just like rap shit.
11:28Like stuff that makes you feel excited about hearing and then like actually saying some
11:32cool shit too.
11:33Set thought it was too long.
11:34But I was like, nah, I'm better gonna fuck with it.
11:36Find it to your chest like your Ant-Man at work.
11:39That shit hard.
11:40Cause he from the town too.
11:41That's why I did it.
11:42You know what I'm saying?
11:43That's why I did it.
11:44He from where we from too.
11:45My favorite.
11:46I put a million dollars into my pocket.
11:47I had to tweet that.
11:48I had to, boy, that's the one right there.
11:50That's like, and it can really happen.
11:52I know niggas, I know.
11:53You did that.
11:54You could make it happen.
11:55You could make it happen.
11:56But yeah, yeah, yeah.
11:57That's my favorite one.
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