Offset Anthony Ghnassia/Getty Images for Li-Ning Offset is continuing to speak out as he recovers from being shot outside of a Florida casino earlier this month.
The rapper, in an interview with the Creators Inc. Podcast that aired Thursday but was recorded less than a week after the April 6 shooting, in which he’s connected to an IV drip, said he was going to “keep pushin'” and opened up about why he wanted to quickly get back to work after he was released from the hospital.
“I was blessed enough to be able to still move, you know what I mean? So I’m still moving,” Offset said on the show. “I’m pushing, man, at the end of the day. The grind don’t stop, bro. I don’t want nobody to feel sorry for me or no shit like that. People get shot every day, bro. Like, I’m blessed. I can keep pushing, so why would I just sit down?”
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The rapper, whose real name is Kiari Kendrell Cephus, echoed those comments elsewhere in the chat, saying he was “like the Energizer Bunny” and needed to “keep this shit pushin.'”
“We don’t got time to be slowing down,” he added.
When asked what his mindset was like after he was shot and continuing to work, Offset said, “The show don’t never stop at the end of the day.”
As for his flight to Los Angeles for the podcast, Offset said he slept in a bed on a private plane.
The musician also shared that he was working on a new album featuring songs inspired by “what happens in my real life.”
Offset was hospitalized with a “non-life-threatening injury” after he was shot near the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. On the Creators Inc. Podcast, Offset said he was “hit in [his] hip.”
Just days after the shooting, after Offset had been released from the hospital, he thanked fans for their support and assured them he was OK.
“Thank you to everyone who’s checked in on me and showed me love,” he wrote in a statement shared on social media. ”I’m good….but I’m planning to be better! I’m focused on my family, my recovery, and getting back to the music…realizing that life is made up of quiet wins and loud losses…. Life’s a gamble and I’m still playing to win.”
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