Offset owes it to his oldest son for helping him kick his codeine addiction.
During his appearance on the Baby This Is Keke Palmer podcast, Offset opened up about how he got into drinking codeine in the first place, blaming it on taking rap seriously.
“You do a lot of things to cope because the job is a lot,” said Offset around the 35-minute mark. “You’re traveling a lot of the time. Can’t be with your kids a lot of the time. People saying this and that.”
Offset revealed how he finally got over it thanks to a conversation that he had with his kid. “I had a wake-up call with my oldest son,” the rapper began. “He kept asking for Pineapple Fanta, but he doesn’t really drink soda.”
“One day, he came into the studio and he asked, ‘Why is your soda a different color than mine?’ It killed me,” he continued.
“I had to lie to him and I was like, 'Mine is old. I’m about to throw it away,’” Offset added. “I just grabbed it and walked off, and I went into the room and damn near cried because I felt bad as a father.”
Offset’s dependency on codeine also impacted other members of his family too. “My momma didn’t like it, nobody in my family liked it, and it started to hurt,” Offset admitted. “When your moma calls and she’s like, ‘You ned to get off of that stuff’ two or three times, it hurts.”
Elsewhere in his heartfelt conversation with host Keke Palmer, Offset revealed that he considered Takeoff to be the “glue” that kept Migos together.
"It can never be the same without my boy cause he was the glue the whole time,” said Offset. “He the glue. He the glue to everything [...] In a group you got egos. We grown men. We got millions of dollars and egos. But homie would humble that at all times [...] He just kept us as one."
"I never forget my roots, right? I'm still representing that, 'cause that's still my family at the end of the day," Offset continued. "I'm still Migos at the end of the day. When I go back to my neighborhood, it's a crew of us, and we Migos. So it don't never go away from me. I just got to hold the torch. I got to hold it down."