Offset understood Cardi’s fears, as he had his own when he first became a father at the age of 17. “I was scared because I was a kid,” he recalls. “I was still living with my mama.”After his first son, Jordan, was born, Offset welcomed his second child, Kody, when he was 23.
By that time, his rap group Migos had already dropped popular singles “Versace” and “Fight Night.” “I was in a better space,” Offset says. “I was on.
I was able to do way more than with my first.”It’s Kody, the pair says, who’s most like his Grammy Award–nominated pops. It’s not just because he, too, has a perfectly lined-up set of locs, aspires to be a rapper and will randomly ask his dad to call a music engineer to record him spitting lyrics—a request Offset regularly obliges.
It’s also his easygoing demeanor. During the photo shoot for this story, he doesn’t utter a single complaint when we ask him to pose for hours, not even to whine as he fights off sleep during the last shot of the night.
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